Biological Diversity Study Days 2024
Provide your students with an opportunity to explore complex aspects of this topic by engaging in inspiring activities with New South Wales' top scientific institutions.
Stage 6
Biology
27 - 28 August 2024
9:30am - 2pm (three 75-minute sessions with a 15-minute morning break and a 30-minute break for lunch)
Visitor Centre, Blue Mountains Botanic Garden Mount Tomah
$26 Student (up to 25 students per session)
Provide your students with an opportunity to explore complex aspects of this topic by engaging in inspiring activities with New South Wales' top scientific institutions.
Students will examine fossils, specimens, live animals and plants to understand biological diversity by explaining the relationships between a range of organisms in terms of specialisation for selected habitats and evolution of species.
This program has been developed by the Botanic Gardens of Sydney, Australian Museum and Taronga Zoo to meet aspects of the New South Wales Stage 6 Biology Syllabus for Module 3: Biological Diversity. The 2024 program will take place in five locations around New South Wales as well as a virtual excursion via Zoom. Read more about each location, find a program date and book a session on the Australian Museum website.
Study Day program
The Study Day comprises three educator-led sessions of 75 minutes each.
Botanic Gardens of Sydney educator-led session where students engage in field work using the site’s Eucalypt specimens to examine the role of divergent evolution in biological diversity. In learning about the way plant species are identified and classified and observing their adaptations, students develop an understanding of biological diversity and the theory of evolution.
Australian Museum educator-led session where students investigate fossils, skeletons and DNA data from Australian animals to learn how comparative anatomy and genetics support the Theory of Evolution.
Taronga Zoo educator-led session provides students the opportunity to engage with live animals while learning about the Theory of Evolution by Natural Selection. They will explore the impacts that selection pressures have on population dynamics. Students will discover how adaptations increase an organism’s chance of survival while interacting with a selection of Australian animals.
This program is also offered at other venues including the Australian Botanic Garden Mount Annan, Royal Botanic Garden Sydney, Taronga Zoo and North Coast Regional Botanic Garden Coffs Harbour or join us for a Virtual excursion.
Related excursions
Sydney Science Trail excursions are back this August. Explore the program and book your secondary school class excursion for National Science Week.
Students explore the Botanic Gardens, to learn about thriving desert landscapes, biodiversity, and experience the wonder of time spent in nature.
This full-day program supports Module 3: Biological Diversity in the new 2018 New South Wales Biology syllabus.