Environmental change and management excursion
Geography
This program can cater up to 6 classes.
A new and updated program for the 2024 syllabus.
Blackman Park is a multipurpose recreational space managed by Lane Cove Council. It is located beside the Lane Cove River and contains sports grounds, picnic areas, dog off-leash areas, a skate park and river foreshore bushwalks. The site enables geography students to engage in fieldwork that investigates biophysical and human-induced processes that change Earth’s environments, the conseqences of environmental change and management strategies that can be observed in Blackman Park.
This site study has a focus on fieldwork inquiry and tools. Students will use equipment to; collect primary data on estuarine processes, measure and record microclimate data, engage in water quality testing and conduct vegetation transects to investigate biodiversity.
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