The Earth's Surface
Stage 2
Pre and post excursion lessons
We acknowledge the traditional custodians of the land on which we work. We would like to pay our respects to the Elders, past, present and emerging and acknowledge our Aboriginal Elders and knowledge holders who have helped us to understand the special connection Aboriginal peoples have with the land.
Teacher information
This resource supports teachers who will be attending Gibberagong Environmental Education Centre for an excursion. The learning tasks included in this package are designed to be programmed into the lesson sequence and completed by students before and after attending the excursion. 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 - 4 are pre-visit activities.
Lessons 5 - 8 are post-visit activities.
A Student Workbook accompanies this resource and can be downloaded below.
Syllabus links
Science
Earth and Space
ST2-10ES-S Investigates regular changes caused by interactions between the Earth and the sun, and changes to the earth’s surface
Skills
ST2-1WS-S Questions, plans and conducts scientific investigations, collects and summarises data and communicates using scientific representations
Other KLA's addressed in some lessons are PDHPE and Geography
Key inquiry question
How do natural processes and human actions change the Earth’s surface over time?
Inquiry questions
How has the earth's surface changed over time?
What are the characteristics of soil and how is it formed?
How can we help protect the earth's surface?
Downloadable resources
Teacher Programming Resource (Google Doc) or (PDF)
Student Workbook (Word version) or (PDF)
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