Primary HSIE Geography and History excursions and incursions | K–6 | Field of Mars EEC
Field of Mars Environmental Education Centre offers HSIE Geography and History excursions and incursions for Early Stage 1 to Stage 3.
Students investigate places, environments, water, change, continuity and responsibility through fieldwork, mapping, observation, evidence and discussion.
Programs are led by qualified Department of Education teachers and support the NSW Human Society and its Environment K–6 Syllabus (2024) through geographical and historical inquiry.
Why choose HSIE Geography and History at Field of Mars EEC?
- Students learn through real places, local environments, fieldwork and evidence.
- Programs support the NSW Human Society and its Environment K–6 Syllabus (2024) through Geography and History inquiry, including observing, questioning, mapping, recording and communicating findings.
- Place-based learning helps students understand features of places, water environments, change over time, connections to Country and how people care for environments.
What will students do?
- Students observe, sketch, photograph, map and record features of natural, built and managed places.
- They use geographical tools such as maps, compasses, field journals, photographs, data tables and simple fieldwork equipment.
- Students build HSIE vocabulary and communicate ideas about place, environment, change, sustainability and responsibility.
Featured HSIE excursions and incursions
Special places excursion
Early Stage 1 | HSIE Geography
Students investigate why places are special by observing natural and built features, sharing ideas and practising ways to care for local environments.
Aboriginal connections to Country excursion
Stage 1 | HSIE History and Geography
Students learn about connections to Country by exploring significant places, plants, waterways, stories, responsibilities and ways Aboriginal Peoples care for Country.
National parks excursion
Stage 2 | HSIE Geography
Students use geographical inquiry to investigate national parks, collect fieldwork evidence and explain how people manage and protect environments.
Factors that shape places excursion
Stage 3 | HSIE Geography
Students investigate how natural and human processes shape places by collecting evidence, interpreting maps and data, and explaining environmental change.
HSIE excursions by Stage
Early Stage 1 excursions
Students explore why places are special by observing natural and built features, sharing feelings and connections to place, and practising caring behaviours.
Stage 1 excursions
Students investigate local places and stories by asking questions, using simple maps, and using observations and shared sources to describe change and continuity.
Stage 2 excursions
Students apply geographical inquiry to a local environment, using fieldwork (observations, sketches, simple data) to explain how people use and care for environments.
Stage 3 excursions
Students conduct deeper geographical inquiry: mapping, data collection and interpretation to explain processes that shape places and evaluate sustainability or management options.
HSIE incursions by Stage
Early Stage 1 incursions
Students explore features of their school/local area using guided questioning, simple maps and storytelling about caring for places, including Aboriginal perspectives.
Stage 1 incursions
Students use photographs, simple sources and mapping tasks to describe places, people and local history/geography, then communicate findings with labelled visuals.
Stage 2 incursions
Students investigate a local issue or environment by collecting information, organising data in tables/graphs, and proposing ways people can care for places.
Stage 3 incursions
Students interpret maps, images and data to explain patterns and change, then evaluate options and justify a preferred action for a local place.
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