Trawling (day or camp)

Year 4 Australian Curriculum (Science)

Complements C2C Unit 2: Ready, set, grow!

All aboard the Educat! Student participate in a beam trawl of Moreton Bay - sorting, identifying and recording the benthic organisms collected in the net. Student will examine and discuss the relationship that these organisms have with the mangrove habitat and what effect trawling can have on the environment & living things in the bay..

SU:Living things, including plants and animals, depend on each other and the environment to survive (ASSU074)

• investigating the roles of living things in a habitat, for instance producers, consumers or decomposers
• observing and describing predator-prey relationships
  
• predicting the effects when living things in feeding relationships are
  
• removed or die out in an area
  

SHE: Science involves making predictions and describing patterns and relationships (ACSHE061)
Science knowledge helps people to understand the effect of their actions (ACSHE062)

SIS: Questioning & Prediciting (ACSIS064)
Planning & Conducting (ACSIS066)
Processing and analysing data (ACSIS216)
Evaluating (ACSIS069)
Communicating (ACSIS071)

(Half day)

Year 5 Australian Curriculum (Science)

Complements C2C Unit: Survival in the Australian Environment

Organisms living on the bottom of the sea have adaptations to help them cope with the conditions they experience at the benthic level. In this module, students board the research vessel 'Educat' and participate in a 'beam trawl' during which they catch bottom dwellers and look closely at their body shape, position of the eyes, methods of locomotion and other structural features. They record the species and numbers caught.

SU: Living things have structural features and adaptations that help
them to survive in their environment (ACSSU043)

SHE: Science involves testing predictions by gathering data and using evidence to develop explanations of events and phenomena (ACSHE081)

SIS: Questioning and Predicting (ACSIS231)
Planning & Conducting (ASSIS086); (ASSIS088)
Processing and analysing data (ACSIS090); (ACSIS218)
Communicating (ACSIS093)

(Half day)

Year 6 Australian Curriculum (Science)

Complements C2C Unit: Life on Earth

Students board the research vessel 'Educat' and participate in a 'beam trawl'. They record the species and numbers caught as well as taking measurements of temperature, turbidity and salinity. They look at the relationship between the physical environment and the growth and development of living organisms.

SU: Growth and survival of living things is affected by the physical conditions of their environment (ACSSU094)

SHE: Science involves testing predictions by gathering data and using evidentce to develop explanations of events and phenomena (ACSHE098)
Science knowledge is used to inform personal decisions (ACSHE220)

SIS: Questioning and Predicting (ACSIS232)
Planning & Conducting (ASSIS0105)
Processing and analysing data (ACSIS107); (ASSIS221);
Communicating (ACSIS110)

(Half day)