Aim
A purposeful place-based learning experience that responds to students, curriculum and learning goals.
Big idea
Exploring place can deepen our understanding of ecosystems and our relationship with Country.
Program details
Venue: Negotiated
Duration: 9.30am–2.30pm
Availability: Term 1, 2, 3, 4
Supervision: Visiting teacher and support staff
Curriculum link potential
Focus learning areas
- Science: ecosystem relationships, biodiversity, human impacts
- Geography: place, interconnections, environmental change
- Art: natural materials, observation, creative response
- Sustainability: human impacts, responsibility, future thinking
- Wellbeing and social-emotional learning: connection, belonging, collaboration, reflection
Student experiences
- Explore the diversity of a local ecosystem through hands-on experiences shaped by curriculum and student learning goals.
- Connect with Country through sensory exploration, observation and bushwalking, noticing the plants, animals and materials within the landscape.
- Explore First Nations knowledge of plants and Country, considering relationships between people and the natural environment.
- Investigate human impacts on local ecosystems, reflecting on past, present and possible futures.
- Develop social and emotional capabilities through experiences that encourage collaboration, curiosity, reflection and connection.
What makes it negotiated?
Programs are developed collaboratively where an identified opportunity aligns with Amaroo EEC’s educational priorities, expertise and capacity, and has potential to strengthen our broader program offering.
Important
Negotiated programs are not commissioned one-off programs. We prioritise ideas that are innovative, educationally purposeful and potentially transferable to other students and schools.