Earth's environment: Eucalypt forest excursion
Geography
Program
Students investigate the natural vegetation and resources of the eucalypt forest and the value of this environment to animals and people.
Learning intentions
- We are learning to observe and record natural characterstics of the environment.
- We are learning about interactions between plants and animals in the environment.
Activities
Students will undertake a bushwalk as ‘place detectives’. Through teacher-led and student-directed activities, students will investigate and record the characteristics of the forest, evidence of animals and their interconnection with the environment.
Fieldwork tools will include sensory observation, invertebrate hunts and recording through sketching, mapping, watercolour and tallies in their take-home field journal. Students may also participate in a number of self-led, free choice activities.