Experience Engage Enable
T: Telephone02 9816 1298
| Location | Your school |
| Cost | DoE $16 per student - GST free Non-gov school $26 per student - GST free, minimum charge $700 Term 1 - Catholic school Weeks 3 to 7 cost = DoE cost - GST free, minimum charge $700 |
| Risk assessment | |
| Bring | Students wear reusable name tag. |
| Medical or special needs | Notify Field of Mars staff prior to incursion. Students, staff and visitors must not attend if unwell, even with mild symptoms. |
| Cancellations | Cancellations with less than four school weeks' notice will incur a $500 administration fee. This does not apply to cancellations due to weather or fire danger. |
| Class numbers | 1 class per session. Maximum 3 sessions per day. If more than one day is required for your school, bookings should be made on consecutive days. |
Time |
Class |
| 9.30 - 11.00 | Class A |
| 11.30 - 1.00 | Class B |
| 1.30 - 3.00 | Class C |
What animals live or visit your school at night?
Students will commence this hands-on incursion immersed in a recreated nocturnal landscape. They will engage with stories and sounds and meet stick insects, bush cockroaches and centipedes – food for some of our nocturnal animals.
In the role of place detectives, students explore their school grounds looking for nocturnal animal evidence and the food they prey upon. Investigating the needs of living things, students identify animal habitat features and in groups create a model of a bug friendly garden. Mulch, leaves, branches and water sprays will be provided.
Groups will be given small toy invertebrates, a tawny frogmouth hand puppet and torches to re-enact a night-time adventure.
Students finish with an orchestrated night time voice and body percussion chorus.
Grass tube stock will be presented to the class at the conclusion of the session.
Science and Technology K-6 Syllabus (2017)
Outcomes
Living world
Earth and Space
Other syllabus links
Learning experiences will also support but not explicitly teach the following outcomes.
English K-10 Syllabus (2022)
Outcomes
Science and Technology K-6 Syllabus © NSW Education Standards Authority (NESA) for and on behalf of the Crown in right of the State of New South Wales, 2017
English K–10 Syllabus © NSW Education Standards Authority (NESA) for and on behalf of the Crown in right of the State of New South Wales, 2022
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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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