Shaping Places: Environmental Warriors

Students become Environmental Warriors as they explore, investigate, and communicate the features and characteristics of the local ecosystem in the Australian Botanic Garden Mount Annan.

They will collect data, discover external and human influences on the ecosystem and complete a mapping exercise. They will also engage in a stakeholder roleplay to present their arguments on the use of fire to manage the ecosystem.

• Collect primary fieldwork data as they explore the local ecosystem in the Australian Botanic Garden Mount Annan.
• Investigate the human and natural features and learn mapping skills to share their observations.
• Emulate active citizenship as they research and prepare arguments on bushfire preparedness and ecosystem management.

• Measure and represent the unique features and characteristics of the Cumberland Plain Woodland through field tests and mapping.
• Discover the importance of the management of the Cumberland Plain Woodland.
• Explore how people's actions can impact the environment.
• Examine Australia's unique relationship with bushfires through the perspectives of various stakeholders.
• Discuss strategies for the reduction of human impacts on threatened ecosystems.

Focus Syllabus Outcomes

Geography

• Describe the diverse features and characteristics of places and environments (GE3-1)
• Explain interactions and connections between people, places and environments (GE3-2)
• Compare and contrast influences on the management of places and environments (GE3-3)
• Acquire, process and communicate geographical information using geographical tools for inquiry (GE3-4)