Land Incursions

Did you know slaters have 7 pairs of legs and two sets of antennae? Have your students ever been on a plant treasure hunt or used a clinometre? What about investigating your local waterways? Our CERES land incursions really get students to look at biodiversity, its importance and what we can do to protect it at a local level. Discover another world just outside your classroom door!

P-2 Minibeasts!

Explore the microhabitats and biodiversity in your own school-scape.
Assess the creatures you find up close through a video microscope in the classroom
Explore the structure of the different invertebrates, their diversity and function and where they fit into the ecological web.
Depending on the age group, students can relate the adaptations of the creatures they find to their role or survival in the habitat and environment they were found in.

P–2 Not Just Veggies

Discover how you an incorporate an edible garden into your very own school ground.
Learn about the life cycle of a plant and discover what a seed needs in order to grow healthy and strong.
Explore the historical use of food plants and how people have changed the way plants have evolved due to the way we have collected and used them.
Investigate some of the positive outcomes from having a veggie garden within your school grounds.
Explore the concepts of sustainability, responsibility, food types, seasons, nutrient cycles and methods of food production.
Be active! What actions will you need to take in order to put a veggie garden in your school and where would be the best place for it.

3 – 6 Environmental Explorers

Learn about the interactions among physical, chemical, and biological components of the environment.
Investigate (through hands on activities) the quality of your surrounding environment and interpret the impact of human actions on terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems.
Undertake a range of environmental monitoring activities
Develop strategies for conserving or restoring your local ecosystems
This is a practical and hands on incursion that will provide students with an integrated, quantitative, and interdisciplinary approach to the study of environmental systems.

7 – 10 Environmental Science

Learn about the interactions among physical, chemical, and biological components of the environment.
Investigate (through hands on activities) the quality of your surrounding environment and interpret the impact of human actions on terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems.
Undertake a range of environmental monitoring activities students
Develop strategies for conserving or restoring your local ecosystems
This is a practical and hands on incursion that will provide students with an integrated, quantitative, and interdisciplinary approach to the study of environmental systems.

3 – 6, 7 - 10 Local Waterway Health

Assess the quality of your local waterway by partaking in a number of chemical and physical tests using water quality testing equipment.
Discuss waterway pollution and what contributes to unhealthy waterways.
Investigate and survey the mini-beasts that live in your local waterway to explore the properties and quality of the water.
This is a highly interactive incursion that will provide students and teachers the opportunity to learn what affects the health of their waterway what actions they can take to improve the quality of this precious resource!

Note: that this Incursion can only be run where the school is close to, or can organise transport to a safe local water body.

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