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Elements and Performance Criteria

1. Identify audience for demonstration
   • Identify characteristics of audience to cater to their needs
   • Confirm numbers and, if possible, names of individuals
   • Identify time allowed for demonstration
   • Identify location and facilities where demonstration will take place
2. Identify topic for demonstration
   • Identify topic/s for demonstration
   • Research topic/s and clarify best demonstration location and facilities
   • Develop order of demonstration, from patterns to details
3. Develop demonstration methods and resources
   • Develop participatory planning activities for the sessions
   • Develop participatory learning activities for each topic
   • Prepare materials and equipment, including enough of everything for the audience size
   • Develop review and revision activities for longer sessions
   • Confirm all materials, tools and equipment is present and in working order, including safety equipment for the demonstration
4. Conduct demonstration
   • Conduct a site and safety briefing
   • Conduct a group introduction session for names and stories of participants
   • Clarify the planning of sessions for the participants
   • Clarify each learning activity and then conduct it
   • Conduct review and revision activities as required
   • Close the session and clean up in a participatory way that includes session participants
5. Take feed-back from audience
   • Conduct a review of the demonstration/s
   • Collect feed-back information and address any issues identified
   • Use feed-back in future demonstration planning

Range Statement

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Performance Evidence

The candidate must be assessed on their ability to integrate and apply the performance requirements of this unit in a workplace setting. Performance must be demonstrated consistently over time and in a suitable range of contexts.

The candidate must provide evidence that they can:

identify audience for demonstration

identify topic/s for demonstration

prepare resources for demonstration

conduct demonstration

collect and use feed-back to address immediate issues or for future demonstration planning

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Knowledge Evidence

The candidate must demonstrate knowledge of:

permaculture principles and ethics

Permaculture practices, such as:

minimising effort for maximum effect

multiple uses for each element in the system

using more than one way to provide important functions

re-using and valuing resources and energy

encouraging productivity of a permaculture system

seeing solutions, not problems

using vertical space and other edges and connections

preventing waste and loss of resources from a permaculture system

participatory planning and learning activities for topics such as:

methods of design

pattern understanding and integrated systems

animal and plant species selection methods

ecological principles

climatic and geological influences

water in the system

soils

earthworks for capturing nutrients

permaculture structures and features

different appropriate technologies that can be used

resource use and reuse

energy

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