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Awesome Adaptations (Year 5)

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View of a lake and grounds arounf itAt a local botanical park students explore animal and plant adaptations. Activities include investigating seed pods, constructing and testing the dispersal abilities of a seed capsule, sketching structural adaptations in plants and examining invertebrates.

Program details

Venue: Peacehaven Park, Highfields

Student participation fee - see Booking Information

Duration: 4 hours

Program overview

The program overview provides:

  • a synopsis of the program

  • links to relevant parts of the Australian Curriculum

  • an indication of pedagogical strategies for the program's activities—based on Amaroo  EEC's Pedagogical Framework (PDF, 198KB)

  • an outline of the teaching sequence.

Elements of the teaching sequence are colour-coded, showing which parts will be taught during the excursion by the Amaroo teacher/s and which should be covered by the classroom teacher (prior to or following the excursion) to fully cover the program's objectives. Suggestions are also given for relevant pre- or post-excursion activities and assessment tasks.

Program Overview (PDF, 644KB)

Curriculum Activity Risk Assessments (CARAs)

Because the activities associated with Amaroo's Awesome Adaptations program are rated at a low or medium inherent risk level, specific curriculum risk assessment documents for this program are not required. The risk assessment documents below have, however, been prepared by Amaroo staff if you would like to use them. They are partially completed (using the program and site knowledge of Amaroo staff), but relevant details concerning your school/visit should be added once you have downloaded them. Each CARA should be approved by your school principal and filed for your records.

Amaroo Risk Assessment - Bushwalking (PDF, 369KB)

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Last reviewed 01 February 2023
Last updated 01 February 2023