Description
Students travel to South Stradbroke Island on board the centre’s powered catamaran called
The Educat. While on the Island, students use scats, tracks and other evidence to locate and observe the island's macropods (agile wallabies & swamp wallabies). In tracking them they consider how macropod locomotion (hopping) is a very economical adaptation for getting from place to place in a sandy environment. Students also study adaptations of the plants to see how they survive on a sand island. They consider the impact of visitors to the island including plant, animal and human visitation). Students learn about indigenous habitation of the island and indigenous uses for some of the local plant and animal life.
Each year level has a slightly different focus consistent with the Australian Curriculum.
Year 7 Australian Curriculum (Science)
Complements C2C Units: Organising & Affecting Organisms
Students board the Educat to Stradbroke Island. Once on the island one of the centre's guides escorts them on an interpretive trail.They identify plant species used by indigenous groups as food or for tools. Students identify animals from tracks and scats or other evidence when and where they occur.
SU: There are differences within and between groups of organisms; Classification helps organise this diversity (ACSSU111)
Interactions between organisms can be described in terms of food chains and food webs; human activity can affect these interactions (ACSSU112)
SHE: Scientific knowledge changes as new evidence becomes available, and some scientific discoveries have significantly changed people's understanding of the world (ASHE119)
SIS: Collaboratively and individually plan and conduct a range of investigation types, including fieldwork, ensuring that safety and ethical guidelines are followed (ACSIS125)
Construct and use a range of representations including graphs, keys and models to represent patterns or relationships including using digital technologies as appropriate. (ACSIS129); Evaluating (ASSIS130); Communicating (ACSIS110)
(Half day)