The Earth’s Environment: Forest Features

Explore Kalkari

Kalkari Visitors Centre provides the students with an opportunity to learn about the features and Aboriginal history of this area of Sydney. Within the building, the students will be able to observe and record a range of preserved animals that are found in the forests.

Bush walk - Kalkari to Bobbin Head

Students will use a variety of fieldwork tools to gather and record observations  and enter these in a fieldwork journal that can be taken home or utilised back at school. These include sketching, mapping, scratch-art and an investigation of the invertebrates of the bush. During the walk, caring for the environment will be modelled through walking on paths and ensuring all rubbish is taken home.

Aboriginal connections will explored through the identification of bush resources and language during the walk with students able to learn about some traditional uses of plants from the area.

Bobbin Head Mangroves

The walk concludes with a visit to the mangrove ecosystem at Bobbin Head, home to a variety of different animals including fish, crabs and birds. During the exploration of the boardwalk area, the students will learn why this is such an important area and how they can protect areas like this when visiting.

NOTE: Variations to timetable based on specific location, group size and weather

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Geography K-10 Syllabus 

Outcomes

A student:

> examines features and characteristics of places and environments GE2-1

> describes the ways people, places and environments interact GE2-2

> acquires and communicates geographical information using geographical tools for inquiry GE2-4

Content

Significance of environments

Students:

• investigate the importance of natural vegetation and natural resources to the environment, animals and people, for example: (ACHGK021, ACHGK022, ACHGK024)

    - identification of types of natural vegetation e.g. forests, grasslands, deserts
    - explanation of the importance of natural vegetation to animals and the functioning of the environment e.g. provision of habitats, production of oxygen

    - discussion of the importance of natural vegetation and natural resources

Science and technology K-6 Syllabus 

Outcomes

A student:

> compares features and characteristics of living and non-living things ST2-4LW

Content

Survival of living things

Students:

• describe how living things depend on each other and the environment to survive, for example (ACSSU073)

Geography K-10 Syllabus © NSW Education Standards Authority (NESA) for and on behalf of the Crown in right of the State of New South Wales, 2015

Science and Technology K-6 Syllabus © NSW Education Standards Authority (NESA) for and on behalf of the Crown in right of the State of New South Wales, 2017