Factors That Shape Places: Bobbin Head including bushfire management

Mangrove management

Students will visit the mangrove boardwalk to learn about the value of mangrove ecosystems, investigate the impact of visitors in this threatened ecosystem and identify management strategies to reduce this impact.

Changes over time

Students will analyse historic photos from Bobbin Head and arrange in chronological order  to compare what features from the past are similar and different to today. Students will complete a field sketch and annotate this to demonstrate their learning.                                  

Fire Management

Students will gain an understanding of the complex decision making process required for hazard reduction burns. Students will use charts to undertake an assessment of the fuel hazard of a bushland area and how this is used to plan hazard reduction burns.

Bush walk to cultural sites

Students visit cultural sites to learn about the Aboriginal history of the area and how these sites are currently being managed.

NOTE: Variations to timetable based on specific location

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Geography K-10 Syllabus 

Outcomes

A student:

> describes the diverse features and characteristics of places and environments GE3-1

> explains interactions and connections between people, places and environments GE3-2

> compares and contrasts influences on the management of places and environments GE3-3

> acquires, processes and communicates geographical information using geography tools for inquiry GE3-4

Content

Factors that change environments

Students:

• investigate the ways people change the natural environment in Australia …..: (ACHGK026, ACHGK027)

Environments shape places

Students:

• investigate how the natural environment influences people and places (ACHGK028)

Humans shape places

Students:

• investigate how people influence places.(ACHGK029)

Bushfire hazard

Students:

• Examine how people can prevent and minis the effects of a bushfire (ACHGK030)

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