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During 2023 the Field of Mars Environmental Education Centre is participating in external validation.
We are looking for feedback from teachers who have used our lessons, activities and videos that were created to support learning from home and in the classroom. We are also asking for your postcode so we have an idea of where the resources were used.
This feedback will be used as evidence to support external validation and to help develop our future directions.
The survey should take less than 5 minutes to complete.
Early stage 1
Science and technology
Inquiry question
This resource will help students learn about the needs of living things. It contains twelve activities with supporting videos and resources that encourage students to explore the natural world.
Students will learn about the needs of people, prepare for an adventure, explore the needs of animals, work as scientists to investigate the needs of plants and go outside to take care of themselves by practising mindfulness breathing and yoga.
Early stage 1
Geography
Inquiry question: What makes places special?
This resource will help students learn about the special places found at home, school or abroad. It contains seven activities with supporting videos and resources that encourage students to explore the natural world.
Students will play nature bingo, create pictures with natural materials, build a cubby, create a map and follow the adventures of frog.
Stage 1
Geography
Inquiry question: What are the features of natural places?
This resource will help students learn about features of natural places. It contains ten activities with supporting videos and resources.
Students will use maps, explore 360º images, record observations, make bush creatures and explore the natural world.
Stage 1
Science and technology
Inquiry question: How do living things grow and change?
This resource will help students learn about the life stages of living things. It contains ten activities with supporting videos and resources.
Students will learn about the life stages of plants, observe plants grow from seeds, create photo grids, match life stages of animals, collect invertebrates and identify their life stages.
Stage 1
Science and technology
Inquiry question: Where do animals live and what are their features?
This resource will help students learn about the places animals live and their features. It contains fourteen activities with supporting videos and resources.
Students will learn about animal homes, how to safely collect invertebrates, draw the features of invertebrates and make a model.
Stage 1
Science and technology
Inquiry question: Where do animals live in the natural environment?
This resource will help students learn about the habitats animals live in and how to improve them. It contains five activities with supporting videos and resources.
Students will learn about animal habitats and environments, how to create a habitats and how to check the health of a habitat.
Stage 2
Geography
Inquiry question: How does the environment support the lives of people and other living things?
This resource will help students learn about how eucalypt forests are used by animals and people. It contains six activities with supporting videos and resources.
Students will learn about the features of eucalypt forests and how animals use the layers of a forest.
Stage 2
Science and technology
Inquiry question: How can we group living things?
This resource will help students learn about how we can classify things. It contains ten activities with supporting videos and resources.
Students will create groups of similar things, collect and classify invertebrates, use the iNaturalist app to identify a living thing and develop their own classification key.
Stage 3
Geography
Inquiry question: How do people interact with urban bushland?
This resource will help students understand the value of urban bushland. It contains sixteen activities with supporting videos and resources.
Students will use 360º images, create a field sketch, investigate virtual fieldwork, conduct a survey, create a catchment story and a digital poster and go on a sign hunt.
This resource contains fact sheets that provide an overview of flora and fauna species found in the Field of Mars Reserve, surrounding areas and parts of NSW.
The text has been written to target Stage 2 students and is suitable for other stages.
Early Stage 1, Stage 1/2/3
This learning hub contains a library of digital learning resources created by the environmental education network to support primary teachers.
Stage 5/6
Science and Geography
This resource will help students participate in virtual fieldwork to support the Science and Geography syllabus.
Students will use 360º images, topographical maps, aerial photography, historical photos and fieldwork data.
Stage 6
Geography
This resource will help students participate in virtual fieldwork following the geographical inquiry process.
Students will use spatial technologies, 360º images, topographical maps, aerial photography, historical photos and fieldwork data.
Stage 6
Biology
This resource will help students participate in virtual fieldwork to support the Biology syllabus.
Students will use 360º images, topographical maps, aerial photography, historical photos and fieldwork data.
Stage 6
Earth and Environmental Science
This resource will help students participate in virtual fieldwork to support the Earth and Environmental Science syllabus.
Students will use 360º images, topographical maps, aerial photography, historical photos and fieldwork data.
Stage 4/5/6
This learning hub contains a library of digital learning resources created by the environmental education network to support secondary teachers.
address
Field of Mars Reserve
Pittwater Road
East Ryde NSW 2112
telephone 02 9816 1298
We’d like to acknowledge the Wallumedegal Peoples of the Darug Nation, the Traditional Custodians of the land on which we stand and pay our respects to Elders past and present.
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