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Stage 3 (Years 5 & 6)
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Glabal Environments :
Rainforests |
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Energy in Our Lives |
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Sustainable Environments: Middens & Tips |
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Sailing, Sinking, Soaring |
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Bushcraft: The Survival Challenge |
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Global
Environments: Rainforests |
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Locations: Mt Keira & Bangalee Reserve,
Nowra |
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Focus KLA & Outcomes: HSIE ENS3.5, ENS3.6 |
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Students investigate first hand: the biodiversity &
structure of a subtropical rainforest; traditional Aboriginal & recent human
interactions; & rainforest conservation issues. |
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Energy in Our Lives |
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Locations: Your school or the Centre at Killalea
State Park |
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Focus KLA & Outcomes: Science PPS3.4, INVS3.7 |
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Students manipulate & change energy forms to: identify
renewable & non renewable energy; experiment with energy efficient models
& products. |
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Sustainable
Environment: Middens & Tips |
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Location: The Centre at Killalea State Park |
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Focus KLA & Outcomes: HSIE ENS3.5, ENS3.6 |
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Students compare a shell midden & tip (resource centre)
to interpret changing patterns of resource use over time & explore issues
of ecological sustainability. |
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Sailing,
Sinking, Soaring |
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Locations: Killalea State Park or North Wollongong |
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Focus KLA & Outcomes: Science ESS3.6, PPS3.4 |
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Students use equipment to measure air and water pollution
& assess the effects of pollution; design & make a boat & a kite;
investigate buoyancy & the properties of water. |
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Bushcraft: The Survival Challenge |
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Locations: Killalea State Park or Mt Keira |
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Focus KLA & Outcomes: PDHPE INS3.3, PSS3.5, GSS3.8 |
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Students work in groups to solve a number of problems
encountered on a simulated overnight hike. This program may also include a
course of engaging initiative activities. |
