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T: Telephone02 9816 1298
| Location | Your school |
| Cost | DoE $25 per student - GST free Non-gov school cost $35 per student - GST free, minimum charge $700 |
| Risk assessment | |
| Welfare | Participants will be walking in urban areas. Limited wheelchair accessibility. This excursion may not be suitable for people who have recently been unwell. |
| Bring | Writing materials, mobile device for audiovisual recording, medications, two water bottles, sunblock, hat and raincoat in a backpack. Sports uniform recommended. |
| View | Preparing for an excursion |
| Worksheet | The worksheet is available for view at the time of booking. |
| Supporting resources | |
| Bin access | All student waste to be taken home by students. |
| Medical or special needs | Notify Field of Mars staff prior to excursion. Students, staff and visitors must not attend if unwell, even with mild symptoms. |
| Extreme or wet weather | Days predicted to be above 35ºC, high winds, extreme bush fire danger and dust storms may result in the excursion being modified, postponed or cancelled. |
| 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. |
Time |
Activities |
Morning session |
Arrival and introduction to methodologies and fieldwork to measure urban heat |
Recess |
Recess and fieldwork preparation |
Middle session |
Measuring urban heat in your school and/or local area |
Lunch |
Lunch in your school |
Afternoon session |
Urban heat island mitigation strategies and assessment |
Students will learn about the challenges of urban heat in their local area and assess the effectiveness of people in mitigating the negative impacts of urban heat as our climate changes.
Fieldwork preparation
Access the Study 3: Climate change - urban heat - Google site
Arrival and introduction
Field of Mars EEC staff will introduce students to the processes that lead to the urban heat island effect using models of built environments designed by architecture students at UNSW Sydney. The models will be given to the school for post fieldwork study or disposal.
Students will engage with the fielwork equipment used to measure urban heat including thermometers, infrared thermometers, thermal heat cameras, anemometers, hygrometers, light metres and moisture metres. Ways of recording qualitative and quantitative data from observations will also be demonstrated.
Fieldwork
Students will go into their playground or walk to identified areas within their local area to measure abiotic and biotic microclimate data.
Results will indicate areas of vulnerability for people and places to urban heat and inform decisions and actions on ways people can mitigate againt the effects.
Recording summer heat using the microclimate datalogger
On request schools can borrow a Microclimate Measurement Kit (if available) developed for the Citizen Science Urban Microclimate Project to record microclimate data in the summer months. Field of Mars EEC staff will demonstrate how to use the datalogger.
Geography 11–12 Syllabus (2022)
Outcomes
A student:
examines places, environments and natural and human phenomena, for their characteristics, spatial patterns, interactions and changes over time GE-11-01
explains geographical opportunities and challenges, and varying perspectives and responses GE-11-03
assesses responses and management strategies, at a range of scales, for sustainability GE-11-04
analyses and synthesises relevant geographical information from a variety of sources GE-11-05
identifies geographical methods used in geographical inquiry and their relevance in the contemporary world GE-11-06
applies geographical inquiry skills and tools, including spatial technologies, fieldwork, and ethical practices, to investigate places and environments GE-11-07
applies mathematical ideas and techniques to analyse geographical data GE-11-08
communicates and applies geographical understanding, using geographical knowledge, concepts, terms and tools, in appropriate forms GE-11-09
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Pittwater Road
East Ryde NSW 2112
telephone 02 9816 1298
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