9.15am-2.15pm
Full-day program
Maximum of 2 classes
Through drama and scientific inquiry students investigate the living, non-living and once living natural world and how to take care of it.
Students will be able to:
- identify and describe living, non-living and once living entities in nature
- undertake scientific investigations to explore the natural world.
Program outline
Students are immersed in the world of secret agents, being invited to the Bunyaville forest by the Director of the Earth Intelligence Agency (EIA), Special Agent X, via a video transmission to search for Agent Claw who has gone missing and to train as secret agents. At the same time they undertake their training activities, they are also asked to complete Agent Claw's mission to identify living, non-living and once-living things in the Bunyaville Conservation Park and to investigate the increased human activity in this natural environment. The three training activities are:
Tracks, Scats and Traces: Students investigate tracks, scats and traces of living things left behind by the wildlife living the Bunyaville Conservation Park. What could they be?
Leaf Litter Search: In 1mx1m quadrats students explore the life found on the forest floor and within the leaf litter layer. Students compare life found within the forest compared to a well used area of the picnic area.
Earthwalk: Students explore the forest for living, non-living and once living things using the power of their senses.
The day culminates in the students deciphering the codes, finding Agent X (shhh don't tell them that yet) and completing their training.