Field of Mars Environmental Education Centre

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Telephone02 9816 1298

Emailfieldofmar-e.school@det.nsw.edu.au

Poetic adventures incursion program

Teacher checklist

Location

Your school

Risk management plan
Cost

2025 DoE $25 per student - GST free

2024/25 Non-gov school cost $28 per student - GST free, minimum charge $750

Schools are to confirm the number of students and classes at least 7 days prior to attending. Schools will be charged based on the number of students confirmed or number of students who attend on the day (whichever is greater). 

School preparation If possible provide one extra large learning space, with a smart board, for all participating classes for the duration of the day. The space needs to accommodate multiple classes.
Supporting resources

Eucalypt forest digital book - available free from Apple Books

English textual concepts website

NSW Department of Education English support site

Animal and plant fact sheets

Medical or special needs Notify Field of Mars staff prior to incursion. 
Cancellations

Cancellations with less than 30 working school days notice will incur a $600 administration fee. 

Cancellations with less than 7 working school days notice will incur the full cost for the program based on the original booking. 

Cancellations due to weather or fire danger are exempt from fees. 


Suggested timetable

Time

 
9.00 - 11.00

Session 1

Macro adventure

11.30 - 1.00

Session 2

iMovie studio

2.00 - 3.00

Session 3

Post production (if required)


Poetic adventures incursion

English

Program

Students will collaborate on a digital communication product, developing vocabulary to create a five-senses poem. They will learn photography and digital storytelling to bring their poem to life.

Learning intention

We are learning to compose an illustrated poem from the perspective of a miniature character.

Activities

Macro adventure

Students will walk to various locations around your school. At each location, they’ll work in pairs to write a sentence from their minifigure’s perspective. They’ll learn about descriptive tier 2 and 3 words for natural areas and natural objects.

Students will learn about macro photography and use visual literacy to illustrate their poem. 

iMovie studio

Students will review and edit field images using iMovie or a similar app. They’ll create a sequence of images to support their poem, narrate it, add titles, and select a soundtrack.

Post-production

If needed, the session can be extended to give students more time to finish their digital project.

Completed products will be sent back to school via Google Drive.



Syllabus outcomes and content

English K-10 Syllabus (2022)

Vocabulary

Outcome

  • Extends Tier 2 and Tier 3 vocabulary through interacting, wide reading and writing, morphological analysis and generating precise definitions for specific contexts EN3-VOCAB-01

Content

Learning and using words

  • Identify newly encountered words from interactions and wide reading, and use them in writing, discussions and presentations

Creating written texts

Outcome

  • Plans, creates and revises written texts for multiple purposes and audiences through selection of text features, sentence-level grammar, punctuation and word-level language EN3-CWT-01

Content

Text features for multiple purposes

  • Use word repetition and word associations as cohesive devices across texts
  • Experiment with figurative language for effect and to engage the reader, including metaphor, hyperbole, oxymoron and allusion
  • Create written texts that include multiple paragraphs with clear, coherent transition of ideas
  • Choose multimodal features suited to a target audience and purpose, to reinforce and extend ideas

English textual concept

Perspective

Students understand that perspectives may differ and that these differences need to be considered

They learn that:

  • perspective may be expressed in different ways including the values expressed and the form of expression.

Other syllabus links

Learning experiences will also support but not explicitly teach the following outcomes and content.

Science and Technology K-6 syllabus (2024)

Living things may change over millions of years, in response to their environments

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.

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, 2024

English textual concepts © NSW Department of Education, 2016