Mangroves (day or camp)

Year 7

Program summary

Environmental focus: Life cycles; the physical environment; food webs; habitat; adaptations; interdependence; features of plants; biological classification; grouping
Year: 7
Time:  Half day (can be part of a full day's program when combined with a complementary activity)
Maximum number: 1 class group

Description

Students explore a mangrove environment to examine the adaptations for survival and the interrelationships between organisms living in and on the mangroves. This involves a ‘hands-on’ interpretive walk through the mangroves. Students will get wet and muddy!

Each year level has a slightly different focus consistent with the Australian Curriculum (see below).

Year 7  Australian Curriculum (Science)

Complements C2C Units: Organising & Affecting Organisms

Students visit a mangrove environment, identifying mangroves based on their physical characteristics.
They use a dichotomous keys to describe and classify mangroves and crabs (optional).
They explore feeding relationships between organisms and identify their relative positions in the food chains and food webs of a mangrove habitat.

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: Science influences the development of practices in areas of human activity such as industry, agriculture and marine resource management (ACSHE121)

SIS: Processing and analysing data (ACSIS129);
Evaluating (ASSIS130); Communicating (ACSIS110)

(Half day)