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Before you join us for fieldwork, we’d like you to complete some quick, and we hope fun, activities to make our day together more meaningful. Your teacher might have you complete these activities as a group or on your own. You should write the answers in your workbooks with the title “The Earth’s Environment - Before Fieldwork”.
Definitions
Definitions
In your own words, define the following words and ideas; you might need to use Google to help you.
Sustainability
Perceptions of environments
Protections of environments
Videos
Videos
Watch the following video clips (YouTube) and answer each of the questions, in full sentences, in your workbook.
Secret Sydney 8 | Ball's Head Reserve | YouTube | 2m25s
How far from the CBD (Central Business District) is Balls Head Reserve?
What Port is the headland situated on?
What is Balls Head referred to as?
4. According to Ian Hoskins, Balls Head Reserve is home to one of the most accessible, what?
5. What else can you find scattered all over the area?
6. How many artefacts were uncovered in the rock shelter? What else was uncovered there?
7. Balls Head Reserve was an important _____________ place for Aboriginal people.
North Sydney Council | Coal Loader Sustainability Learning Guide - Aboriginal Heritage | YouTube | 3m02s
Helen McGrath | Browns Lane The Coal Loader Balls Head | YouTube | 1m13s
8. What did the local Aboriginal people use the area for?
9. What would have been different about the bush in the time before colonisation?
10. There is evidence that what happened to at least one person on the headland?
Maps
Maps
11. View Balls Head Reserve on Google Earth by clicking here and describe its position in relation to the CBD (Central Business District) and Sydney Harbour.
12. Visit Balls Head Reserve on the NSW Government’s SIX Maps website (click here) and view the 1943 imagery to see how the land use in the Bay has changed over time.
Imagery is found under Base Maps (top right corner).
Choose ‘Looking for 1943 imagery’ and slide the slider to toggle between 1943 and the current map.
In your workbook, describe what has changed and what remains the same, particularly around the Coal loader.
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