Earth and Environmental Science

Learning from home – a virtual fieldwork study

This learning at home resource supports the modules Earth's Resources and Human Impacts of the Earth and Environmental Science Stage 6 Syllabus (NESA 2017).

How to use this resource

This virtual fieldwork resource has been prepared by the Field of Mars Environmental Education Centre (EEC) to support students who are learning from home.

At the bottom of every other page is a learning task. Teachers can modify these tasks or write their own.
All embedded videos and photos are important. You may need to open the videos and 360 tours in a new tab if you are working on a task
The resource page contains extension material for depth studies and assessments. Teachers, please contact the centre for sample tasks

Interactive video conferencing sessions to support this resource can be arranged with Field of Mars EEC.

For more information, contact the centre.

Virtual fieldwork versus hands-on fieldwork

A virtual fieldwork experience can never replace real, hands-on fieldwork.

The worksheet sample is used for hands-on fieldwork excursions with Field of Mars EEC at the Field of Mars Reserve at East Ryde.

We will not be using this worksheet for the virtual fieldwork, however it has been included here to give some perspective on how a day of first-hand fieldwork can be organised according to the working scientifically skills outcomes of the Human Impacts module in the Earth and Environmental Science Stage 6 Syllabus (EES).

This website is a virtual fieldwork experience for students working at home.

There are a few differences between the work that has been set as part of this virtual excursion and the hands-on work seen the worksheet.

EES worksheet: Human impacts - introduced species 2020.pdf

Introduction to fieldwork at Field of Mars Reserve

Fieldwork techniques in 4.5 minutesYouTube | Field of Mars EEC (4:23min) | Video transcript . Vimeo: https://vimeo.com/401801524 . View in Google Drive.

360º view of the eucalypt forest in the Field of Mars Reserve, East Ryde, NSW

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