Big Rain Coming

Students will explore different environments within the Botanic Garden to identify how nature provides clues about the changes happening in different places.

• Retell the story of Big Rain Coming through drama to understand the interconnection between people and the environment.
• Discover different plants and animals that tell us rain is coming through a discovery walk in the Connections Garden – What changes do you smell? What do you hear? 
• Understand different weather and climates across Australia through First Nations weather knowledge. How do different environments give us clues about the weather? 

• Investigate the sustainable land management practices of the local Aboriginal community.
• Understand the effects of British colonisation in Australia.
• Collect and represent data to describe features of a place.
• Engage in storytelling and interactive play to explore historical concepts from a range of perspectives.

Focus Syllabus Outcomes

Science and Technology 

• Identifies how daily and seasonal changes in the environment affect humans and other living things (STe-6ES-S)

Geography 

• Identifies places and develops an understanding of the importance of places to people (GEe-1)

English

• Understands and responds to literature read to them (ENE-UARL-01)