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The Earth’s Environment Excursion

Geography

Syllabus Outcomes GE2-1 | GE2-2 | GE2-3 | GE2-4

Transport

$19.90

All parents and teachers can attend for no additional cost.
+GST. As this program is an educational service, all GST charged can be reimbursed in its entirety by the Government. This price excludes transport. (Minimum charge of x35 students).

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About The Earth's Environment

Students will have the chance to explore Australia’s great outdoors, observing the climate, natural vegetation and native animals of Australia. Watch your class gain a new appreciation for our beautiful environment and discuss their own role in its protection, examining the different perceptions about the management of places and environments. Students will be involved in team building activities such as bug catching, fishing and exploring our gorgeous environment on a secret bushwalk, and test their knowledge and geographical skills in a series of fun activities. They’ll get to use our special geographical tools, such as bug catching equipment, and communicate their findings to fellow students. Through our experienced Rangers’ interactive presentation with museum-grade taxidermy animals, students will have the opportunity to understand the importance of the environment and how it supports the lives of people and other living things and learn ways they can help achieve sustainability! They’ll get to explore the area and examine the features and characteristics of the local environment, comparing it to their own home and describing the ways people, places and environments interact. Challenge your students to think sustainably and play their part in nurturing the environment as it supports people and living things, including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. The whole class will see the true value of natural resources and come home buzzing with excitement!

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Syllabus Outcomes Addressed

GE2-1 examines features and characteristics of places and environments
GE2-2 describes the ways people, places and environments interact
GE2-3 examines differing perceptions about the management of places and environments
GE2-4 acquires and communicates geographical information using geographical tools for inquiry

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Arrive/Depart

Full Day Excursion (4 Hours) 10am – 2pm

Time allocation for excursions can be tailored and adjusted to suit your individual school timetable and scheduling.

Transport

Would you like our help with transport? We can suggest a range of transport providers to help source and book a transport quote for you! We would highly recommend that you book directly through the transport providers.

Please be aware that we provide transport quotes as a service to help make your booking process easier for you. Transport companies are in no way affiliated with Ranger Jamie Tours.

What's Included

Supplementry Lesson Ideas Completed Risk Assessment

Syllabus Content Focus

Key inquiry questions answered

  • How does the environment support the lives of people and other living things?
  • How do different views about the environment influence approaches to sustainability?
  • How can people use places and environments more sustainably?

Significance of environments
Students:

  • investigate the importance of natural vegetation and natural resources to the environment, animals and people, for example: (ACHGK021, ACHGK022, ACHGK024)
    • identification of types of natural vegetation eg forests, grasslands, deserts
    • explanation of the importance of natural vegetation to animals and the functioning of the environment eg provision of habitats, production of oxygen

Perception of environments
Students:

  • investigate the ways people, including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples, value environments, for example: (ACHGK022, ACHGK023, ACHGK024)
    • discussion of why people value environments differently eg cultural, agricultural, commercial, recreational values

Protection of environments
Students:

  • investigate sustainable practices that protect environments, including those of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples, for example: (ACHGK023, ACHGK024, ACHGK025)
    • examination of how environments can be used sustainably eg sustainable agricultural, commercial and recreational practices Sustainability
    • discussion of ways waste can be managed sustainably

Day Outline

Arrival / Morning Tea / Toilet Break
(approx. 20 minutes)
Introductory Presentation The day kicks off with a meet and greet with our enthusiastic Rangers followed by an interactive and engaging presentation.
(approx. 25 minutes)
Grouping: Students are divided into their groups of approximately x 30-35 students and are allocated a Ranger guide for each activity.
Activity 1 Students partake in each activity for approximately 30 minutes.
Activity 2 Students partake in each activity for approximately 30 minutes.
Lunch / Toilet Break
(approx. 25 minutes)
Activity 3 Students partake in each activity for approximately 30 minutes.
Activity 4 Students partake in each activity for approximately 30 minutes.
Activity 5 If time allows
Wrap Up / Conclusion / Toilet Break
(approx. 20 minutes)

Activities

Activities are location specific and change depending on the location you choose. Please see drop down to see what activities are offered at each location. Students will participate in up to 4 of the below activity options.

Introduction: The day kicks off with an exciting and engaging presentation, focusing on the importance of different places to people and living things, why people need to protect places, features of different places, how humans can protect places and human connections to places.

Activity 1: Waterworks – Students get their hands all slimy with child friendly craft paint, shampoo, vegetable oil, talcum powder, sunscreen and water. Students will look at ways to protect our waterways sustainably and the importance of our rivers, creeks, beaches and lakes.

Activity 2: Building Bird Houses – Students identify the importance of trees and tree hollows within our national parks as they make bird houses in small groups. At the end of this activity students will place these around the area to attract local wildlife. They’ll be excited to come back after a few weeks and discover what species are living in their specially made habitats. A great way to give back to our wildlife community!.

Activity 3: Bug Catching – Students will have faces camouflaged in child-friendly face paint. Students will be given small clear jars with lid to catch anything creepy crawly they find – spiders not allowed. This activity shows students the biological diversity of environments and what can live in habitats. This activity also focuses on how animals have adapted to live within our cities and built-up urban areas and how humans need to create green spaces for our animals. Students will be able to identify what they have caught as they cross reference their bug to the identification sheets provided.

Activity 4: Bush Habitat Making – Students work together in small teams to create an animal home for possums, wombats, wallabies and the other animals which live in this environment. Students will have their creative side sparked in this activity. Each group will be given a large array of sticks, bark, leaves and branches to make specific animal homes. This activity focuses on the destructive human influence on environments and why we must protect habitats for different species. Students work together in groups and their creative side will be sparked as they create an elaborate animal dwelling/ habitat.

Activity 5: Beach Habitat Making – Students work together in small teams to create an animal home for penguins, crabs, sea birds and other animals which live in this environment. Students will have their creative side sparked in this activity. Each group will be given cardboard boxes and tasked with collecting sticks, sand, stones and shells to make specific animal homes. This activity focuses on the destructive human influence on environments and why we must protect beach habitats for different species. Students work together in groups and their creative side will be sparked as they create an elaborate animal dwelling/ habitat.

Activity 6: Dip Net Fishing – Students will use dip-nets on long-handled poles to catch water-dwelling critters and examine the different species which live in the local environment. They’ll take samples and catch bugs from different areas, and use scientific tools and equipment to determine whether an environment is healthy or unhealthy

Activity 7: Bush Walk – Students will be taken on a bushwalk through the incredible surrounding bushland, exploring the unique features of this scenic area. They’ll get to explore our native bushland and be able to get up close and personal with the flora and fauna that can be found at this level, learning how movements can be observed in nature, for example with wind.

Activity 8: Hand-Reel Fishing – Students will use hand-reels with bait to catch fish and other water-dwelling critters and examine the different species which live in the local environment. They’ll take samples and catch critters from different areas and use scientific tools and equipment to determine whether an environment is healthy or unhealthy.

Activity 9: Crab Catching – Students will be given small clear jars with lids to catch and release crabs in a beautiful wetland environment. Students will be amazed at how many crabs live in this beautiful area. How many will your students find?

Locations

North Sydney

Bobbin Head Ku-ring-gai National Park

  • Bush Walk
  • Crab Catching / Dip Net Fishing (Tide Dependent)
  • Bug Catching

Clifton Gardens Reserve, Mosman

  • Hand Reel Fishing
  • Beach Habitat Making
  • Bug Catching
  • Waterworks

Nielsen Park Vaucluse

  • Bush Walk
  • Beach Habitat Making
  • Bug Catching
  • Waterworks

Sydney City CBD

Royal Botanic Gardens

  • Bush Walk
  • Dip Net Fishing
  • Bug Catching
  • Bush Habitat Making

South Sydney

Carss Bush Park

  • Bush Walk
  • Beach Habitat Making
  • Bug Catching
  • Bush Habitat Making

Gunnamatta Park, Cronulla

  • Hand Reel Fishing
  • Beach Habitat Making
  • Bug Catching
  • Waterworks

Wattamolla Royal National Park – TOP PICK

  • Dip Net Fishing
  • Bush Walk
  • Beach Habitat Making
  • Bug Catching

Western Sydney

Auburn Botanic Gardens

  • Bush Walk 1 – Animal Walk
  • Budh Walk 2 – Gardens Walk
  • Bug Catching
  • Bush Habitat Making

Lizard Log Western Sydney Parklands

  • Bug Catching
  • Waterworks
  • Bush Habitat Making
  • Building Bird Houses

Illawarra

Stanwell Park Beach Reserve

  • Dip Net Fishing
  • Bug Catching
  • Bush Habitat Making
  • Beach Habitat Making

 

View the Google Map below for marked locations.

$19.90

All parents and teachers can attend for no additional cost.
+GST. As this program is an educational service, all GST charged can be reimbursed in its entirety by the Government. This price excludes transport. (Minimum charge of x35 students).

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Would you like our help with transport?

Please note this will be an additional cost to the excursion price and a separate quote will be provided to you. This quote will be from an external transport company who will invoice you directly.

Please note this is a tentative booking. After your booking request is submitted, we will be in touch via email to confirm the requested date and arrange the final details for the booking.

Title Address Description
Bobbin Head Ku-ring-gai National Park
Bobbin Head Rd, New South Wales, Australia
Clifton Gardens Chowder Bay Mosman
Chowder Bay, New South Wales, Australia
Nielsen Park Vaucluse
Nielsen Park, 6 Steele Point Rd, Vaucluse NSW 2030, Australia
Royal Botanic Gardens
Royal Botanic Gardens, Mrs Macquaries Rd, Sydney NSW 2000, Australia
Carss Park Bush Park
Carss Bush Park, Carwar Ave, Carss Park NSW 2221, Australia
Gunnamatta Park Cronulla
Gunnamatta Park, 39/41R Nicholson Parade, Cronulla NSW 2230, Australia
Wattamolla Royal National Park
Sutherland Shire NSW 2232, Australia
Western Sydney Parklands
Western Sydney Parklands, Eastern Creek NSW 2766, Australia
Stanwell Park Beach Reserve
Stanwell Park Beach Reserve, Stanwell Park NSW 2508, Australia