Primary Science and Technology excursions and incursions | K–6 | Field of Mars EEC
Field of Mars Environmental Education Centre offers Science and Technology excursions and incursions for Early Stage 1 to Stage 3.
Students investigate living things, habitats, ecosystems, life cycles, adaptations and environmental change through hands-on fieldwork in bushland, creeks and school grounds.
Programs are led by qualified Department of Education teachers and support the NSW Science and Technology K–6 Syllabus (2024) through observing, questioning, collecting data, testing ideas and communicating findings.
Why choose Science and Technology at Field of Mars EEC?
- Students learn through practical investigations in real environments.
- Programs support the NSW Science and Technology K–6 Syllabus (2024) through fieldwork, observation, data collection, classification, modelling and explanation.
- Place-based learning helps students investigate living things, habitats, ecosystems, life cycles, adaptations, food chains and human impacts.
What will students do?
- Students observe, measure, classify, record and explain evidence from natural, urban and school environments.
- They use fieldwork tools such as hand lenses, dip nets, identification charts, simple testing kits, iPads, data tables and field journals.
- Students build scientific vocabulary and communicate findings through drawings, labelled diagrams, models, photographs, data and explanations.
Featured Science and Technology excursions and incursions
The secret life of birds excursion
Early Stage 1 | Science and Technology
Students observe birds, compare features and behaviours, and record evidence using drawings, photographs and simple data.
Schoolyard safari incursion
Stage 1 | Science and Technology
Students investigate invertebrates in the school grounds by observing, classifying and recording living things and habitat features.
Ecosystem explorers excursion
Stage 2 | Science and Technology
Students collect fieldwork evidence about living and non-living features, food chains, habitats and interactions in a bushland ecosystem.
AR adaptations incursion
Stage 3 | Science and Technology
Students use digital design and augmented reality to model adaptations and explain how features help living things survive.
Science and Technology excursions by Stage
Early Stage 1 excursions
Play-based science experiences where students observe living things, explore materials and habitats with their senses, and talk about what they notice using simple scientific vocabulary.
Stage 1 excursions
Students investigate living things and their needs through guided observation and simple classification, recording evidence with pictures, labels and shared discussions.
Stage 2 excursions
Students conduct structured investigations in bushland and creek settings, collecting and comparing data about ecosystems, interactions and human impacts, then communicating findings using models and labelled diagrams.
Stage 3 excursions
Students apply fieldwork methods to investigate adaptations, survival and environmental change, using evidence to explain cause-and-effect and justify management strategies.
Science and Technology incursions by Stage
Early Stage 1 incursions
Play-based investigations where students observe local living things, describe needs and features, and record evidence through drawing, sorting and talk.
Stage 1 incursions
Hands-on investigations of living things and habitats in the school grounds. Students use simple tools to observe, classify and record findings using labels, tables or photos.
Stage 2 incursions
Ecosystem investigations using schoolyard sampling and data collection. Students identify interactions, represent findings (food chains/webs, annotated diagrams) and explain patterns using evidence.
Stage 3 incursions
Inquiry tasks focused on adaptations, survival and environmental change. Students collect evidence, develop explanations and communicate scientific thinking through structured multimodal products.
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