These learning resources have been designed to support our excursion and incursion programs. They can be used independently by classroom teachers.
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ES1
Special places
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.
The needs of living things
Science and technology
Inquiry question
- What are the needs of living things?
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.
Fact sheets
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.
Stage 1
Features of places
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.
Ranger for a day
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.
Schoolyard safari
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.
Watch it grow
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.
Fact sheets
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.
Stage 2
Classification
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.
Eucalypt forest
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.
Fact sheets
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.
Stage 3
Adaptations
Science
Inquiry question: How do the structural and behavioural features of living things support survival?
These lessons will help students learn about adaptations of living things and the strategies they use to survive.
Students will practise the science skills of gathering information, communicating effectively and investigating scientifically.
To help we have enlisted the world-famous Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson’s Science Detective Agency.
Holmes, Watson and a few other interesting characters will help students learn in different ways.
Factors that shape places
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.
Fact sheets
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.
Multistage
NSW Environmental and zoo education centres primary learning hub
This learning hub contains a library of digital learning resources created by the environmental education network to support primary teachers.