Stage 2 incursions | Years 3–4 | Field of Mars EEC

Stage 2 (S2) incursions bring environmental and sustainability learning into Year 3 and Year 4 classrooms and school grounds.

Led by qualified NSW Department of Education teachers, students investigate ecosystems, protected places, storytelling, digital media and creative responses to the natural environment.

Programs support Creative Arts, English, HSIE and Science and Technology, with a focus on fieldwork skills, observation, collaboration, inquiry and environmental understanding.

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Connect schoolyard investigations to fact sheets about ecosystems, habitats, plants, animals and caring for environments.

Creative Arts incursions

Teacher demonstrating iPad photography techniques (rule of thirds and macro photography) to Stage 2 students outdoors.

Digital woodlands incursion

Stage 2 | Creative Arts

A Creative Arts incursion where Stage 2 students use iPads outdoors to photograph natural features, create digital artworks and tell visual stories inspired by nature.

Stage 2 students using iPads to photograph and arrange natural materials to create a digital artwork.

Nature’s gift incursion

Stage 2 | Creative Arts

A Creative Arts incursion where Stage 2 students use iPads, natural materials, patterns, textures and colours to create nature-inspired digital artworks.

English incursions

Teacher introducing Stage 2 students to planning, scripting, filming and editing a short nature documentary.

Documentary in a day incursion

Stage 2 | English

An English incursion where Stage 2 students plan, script, film and review a short nature documentary while developing speaking, listening and multimodal storytelling skills.

Stage 2 students collecting sensory words and ideas outdoors to write an environmental five-senses poem.

Poetic adventures incursion

Stage 2 | English

An English incursion where Stage 2 students collect sensory words, environmental vocabulary and outdoor observations to create poetry and visual texts.

HSIE Geography incursions

Owl figurine and magnifying glass representing investigation in a protected area during an incursion.

National parks incursion

Stage 2 | HSIE Geography

An HSIE incursion where Stage 2 students investigate protected places, plants, animals, conservation strategies and ways people care for natural environments.

Science and Technology incursions

Stage 2 students acting as ecologists, exploring school-ground habitats and recording observations in a field journal.

Ecosystem explorers incursion

Stage 2 | Science and Technology

A Science and Technology incursion where Stage 2 students investigate schoolyard ecosystems, living and non-living features, habitats, food chains and human impacts.

Stage 2 students developing a script and storyboard and making plasticine props before filming a stop-motion science animation.

Science animated incursion

Stage 2 | Science and Technology

A Science and Technology incursion where Stage 2 students create simple digital animations to explain science ideas such as ecosystems, habitats and animal features.