Bush Safari

This resource supports teachers who will be attending Gibberagong EEC for a field excursion. The learning tasks included in this package are designed to be programmed and completed by students prior to and after attending the excursion. Students maximise their learning when they have engaged in learning tasks both prior to an excursion and upon returning to school. Students develop a better understanding of the content, knowledge, skills, values and attitudes when they have engaged in pre-learning about the excursion site, relevant content linked to the unit of study and associated learning outcomes; and post-excursion learning tasks add value to the excursion visit and consolidates their learning.

Lessons 1 - 5 are pre-visit activities.

Lessons 6 - 8 are post-visit activities.

Science

ST1-1LW-S observes, questions and collects data to communicate and compare ideas.

ST1-4LW-S describes observable features of living things and their environments.

English

EN1-11D responds to and composes a range of texts about familiar aspects of the world and their own experiences

PDHPE

PD1-7 explores actions that help make home and school healthy, safe and physically active spaces.

Creative Arts

VAS1.1 makes artworks in a particular way about experiences of real and imaginary things.

Key Inquiry Questions

• What are the external features of living things?

• How can we improve a local environment to encourage living things to thrive?

Inquiry Questions

• What plants and animals live around Bobbin Head?

• How can they be classified?

• What do they need to survive in their environment?

• What can we do to help local living things to survive?

Teacher Programming Resource (Google Doc) or (PDF)