Transport and Travel - MOBILE PLANT OPERATOR  

Create a new episode for Scoop to be the "Hero"!

Primary Middle 

Australian Curriculum General Capability: Critical and creative thinking

Australian Curriculum General Capability: ICT

Cooperative Learning Activity

1. Bob the Builder (the original version) was loved by young children in many countries. Scoop was the very first machine owned by Bob the Builder.

Scoop is a yellow backhoe digger with a black cab and an orange siren on his can. He has a diesel engine and has an exhaust pipe coming out of the right side of his hood. He has large, rugged all season tires in the rear and small, rugged all season tires in the front. He is the leader of the machines.

(Source: Lionsgate)

2. With a partner, look at the following episode: Scoop the Disco Digger

https://youtu.be/Ha4ZecDxpcQ

As a pair, you are to create a new episode making sure that Roley is also involved as he too has a mobile plant operator! The new episode is to be 2 minutes in length.

3. Work out your story together on a story board.

Which characters will be involved?

4. Collect images of Scoop and use Animatron to create your new episode.

5. Share with your class.

Restoration of the Earth after mining! Possible?

  Secondary

Australian Curriculum General Capability: Critical and creative thinking

Australian Curriculum Cross Curriculum Priorities: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander histories and cultures

Australian Curriculum Cross Curriculum Priorities: Sustainability Priority

Cooperative Learning Activity

1. Mobile Plant Operators are used within the mining industry to scrap and strip the earth to get to the minerals underneath. But what happens when a mine is "finished"? What should happen to the holes in the ground? Australia has legal requirements but are these being met?

In groups of four, allocate each person to read the one of following articles from The Conversation and note the different points of view.

Summarise each article and write down the examples in a table.

The Conversation 9 February 2022

The Conversation 2 February 2022

The Conversation 7 February 2020

The Conversation 29 April 2016

2.

Discuss as a group whether restoration can occur after mining.

• What are the problems?
  
• Are there any long term problems that need to be considered?
  
• What impact do these problems have on the environment? People?
  
• What solutions have occurred? Internationally? Australian? Are there differences? Why?

3. As a group, you are to come up with a creative solution for Leigh Creek Mine, SA. [Resources below]

You need to consider:

• Indigenous culture
• Native plants and fauna
• Tourism benefits (as Leigh Creek is part of the Flinders Ranges)
• Use of the current facilities at Leigh Creek township
• The scale of the rehabitation

(personal photo taken from a plane in September 2016)

You are to use the following resources to give you ideas about Leigh Creek Mine and the township. What will you do to think of a creative solution to Leigh Creek?

Wikipedia - Leigh Creek	ABC News 22 January 2016
ABC News 12 April 2016	Aussie Towns - Leigh Creek