'Watch Your Waste' focuses on natural cycling/recycling and human waste management concepts. Students are encouraged to take responsibility for conserving, reusing and recycling a wide range of products and resources. Activities include making a recycled, biodegradable pot, searching for the 'recycling gang' during a guided forest walk, paper making and examining a worm farm and compost bins.
Program details
Venue: Amaroo EEC, Kleinton
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, 198 KB)
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, 689KB)
Curriculum Activity Risk Assessments (CARAs)
Because the activities associated with Amaroo's Watch Your Waste 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 - Watch Your Waste Program (PDF, 338KB)
Guide to recycling in the Toowoomba Region
Amaroo has prepared a guide to options for recycling all kinds of materials in the Toowoomba Region.
Recycling Options in the Toowoomba Region (PDF, 202KB)