Exploring Stradbroke Island (day or camp)

Year 4 Australian Curriculum (Science)

Complements C2C Unit 2: Ready, set, grow!

Students will explore the dunes, casuarina forest and foreshores of Stradbroke Island. They will examine relationships between living things and their dependence on this environment. After witnessing some of the natural as well as human induced changes occurring on the island, students will be given the opportunity to predict the effects of these changes on living things.

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

• investigating how plants provide shelter for animals
  

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 & Predicting (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

Students travel to South Stradbroke Island on-board the Educat While on the Island, students use scats, tracks and other evidence to locate and observe the island's macropods (agile wallabies & wamp wallabies). In tracking them they consider how macropod locomotion (hopping) is a very economical way of 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.

SHE: Important contributions to the advancement of science have
been made by people from a range of cultures (ACSHE082)
Scientific understandings, discoveries and inventions are used
to solve problems that directly affect peoples’ lives (ACSHE083)

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

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

(Half day)

Year 6 Australian Curriculum (Science)

Complements C2C Unit: Life on Earth

Students board the Educat and disembark on Stradbroke Island. By participating in an interpretive walk, students learn how human activities have had a major impact on the island and the Broadwater environments over a short period of time. Changing the physical morphology of the island has resulted in a dramatic change in tidal flow which in turn has affected the distribution and feeding patterns of wildlife in the area.

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 evidence 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)