Stage 3 incursions | Years 5–6 | Field of Mars EEC

Our Stage 3 (S3) incursions are designed for Years 5 and 6 students and bring environmental and sustainability learning in Creative Arts, English, HSIE Geography and Science and Technology into your classroom or school grounds. Developed by Field of Mars Environmental Education Centre in Sydney, these incursions support the NSW curriculum and give students rich opportunities for digital creativity, inquiry, fieldwork-style investigations and explaining science ideas about local environments.

Creative Arts incursions

Hands holding an iPad showing a close-up lizard on moss, representing digital nature photography.

Digital woodlands incursion

Stage 3 | Creative Arts

A full-day digital arts incursion where students use iPads to capture images and create digital artworks inspired by nature, textures and patterns in their school grounds or local environments, deepening their connection with nature.

iPad displaying a colourful nature collage beside leaf litter and moss, representing digital art inspired by natural materials.

Nature’s gift incursion

Stage 3 | Creative Arts

A creative arts and digital technology incursion where students use natural materials and iPads to design visual artworks that explore pattern, colour and shape in nature.

English incursions

iPad video-editing timeline with wildlife footage and media tools open, representing student documentary editing in iMovie.

Documentary in a day incursion

Stage 3 | English

A full-day English incursion where Stage 3 students plan, script, film and review a short documentary about nature or a local topic in their school or community, building skills in planning, speaking, listening and multimodal texts.

LEGO minifigure on an iPad in a wet creekside setting, representing storytelling and poetry inspired by nature.

Poetic adventures incursion

Stage 3 | English

Students explore their school and nearby natural areas. They develop tier 2 and 3 environmental vocabulary and create a visual poem from the perspective of a miniature figure using an iPad.

HSIE Geography incursions

Water-quality testing chart and colour scale kit on muddy ground, representing geography fieldwork data collection.

Factors that shape places incursion

Stage 3 | HSIE Geography

A Geography incursion where students investigate natural and human processes that shape places in their local area, using maps, images and inquiry tasks to explore change over time and sustainable management.

Science and Technology incursions

Hand lens on moss with leaf litter, representing close observation of invertebrates and animal adaptations.

Adaptations incursion

Stage 3 | Science and Technology

A science incursion where students investigate structural and behavioural adaptations of animals, linking features to survival in Australian environments and changing conditions.

Leaf insect beside an iPad and stylus showing an AR drawing, representing augmented reality learning about adaptations.

AR adaptations incursion

Stage 3 | Science and Technology

A digital Science and Technology incursion where students use augmented reality (AR) and design tools to visualise and create animals with specific adaptations, then explain how their features help them survive.

iPad showing a stop-motion clip of a plasticine animal model on a mossy rock, representing science animation.

Science animated incursion

Stage 3 | Science and Technology

Students learn key science concepts and then use simple animation tools to create short animated sequences that explain their understanding of adaptations.

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iPad displaying a Field of Mars digital learning resource that supports excursions, incursions and fieldwork skills

Learning resources

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Illustration representing native plants and animals used for Field of Mars flora and fauna fact sheets to support primary and secondary learning.

Flora and fauna fact sheets

Read our animal, plant and habitat fact sheets for use in the classroom or at home.