Biodiversity
Our team has designed this exciting new program to enable young scientists, nature lovers, and explorers to look at what lives in your school backyard.
About this excursion
We will come and visit your school to facilitate a comprehensive biodiversity survey of all the living things in your school grounds.
Life is spectacularly diverse, big, little, furry , smooth, flying, slithering , squirming, creepy and crawly, discover what lives in your backyard. Students will learn to identify different habitats, understand the importance of biodiversity and why conservation is essential for the maintenance of a healthy environment.
Excursion activities
Through hands-on activities, students will:
- Identify various living organisms present in their school grounds.
- Recognise different habitats and understand the connection between organisms and their environment.
- Explain the importance of biodiversity and conservation for ecosystem health.
Important information
Early Stage 1 (Kindergarten)
Science and Technology
- STES-5LW: Recognises ways to care for plants and animals in the immediate environment.
- STES-6LW: Explores the natural world and the effects of their actions on the environment.
PDHPE
- PDE1.8: Describes how to take care of themselves and their environment.
Stage 1 (Years 1-2)
Science and Technology
- STS1.6LW: Describes ways to care for the environment and living things.
- STS1.7LW: Identifies how the environment provides for the needs of living things.
PDHPE
- PDS1.7: Explores ways to keep the environment clean and healthy.
Stage 2 (Years 3-4)
Science and Technology
- STS2.6LW: Identifies how living things depend on each other and the environment to survive.
- STS2.7LW: Explains how human actions impact the environment and living things.
PDHPE
- PDS2.9: Recognises ways to maintain a healthy environment.
Stage 3 (Years 5-6)
Science and Technology
- ST3-11LW: Identifies practices that promote sustainable living.
- ST3-12LW: Explains the interrelationships between living things and their environments.
- ST3-10ES: Describes ways in which the Earth’s resources are used.
PDHPE
- PDP3.10: Explores strategies to promote health and wellbeing in the community.
- PDP3.7: Describes the relationship between food and health (supports understanding of ecosystems and food chains).
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