Shaping Places: Environmental Warriors

Students will collect data, discover external and human influences on the ecosystem and complete a mapping exercise. They will also engage in a stakeholder roleplay to present their arguments on the use of fire to manage the ecosystem.

• Collect primary fieldwork data as they explore the local ecosystem in the Australian Botanic Garden Mount Annan.
• Investigate the human and natural features and learn mapping skills to share their observations.
• Emulate active citizenship as they research and prepare arguments on bushfire preparedness and ecosystem management.

• Measure and represent the unique features and characteristics of the Cumberland Plain Woodland through field tests and mapping.
• Discover the importance of the management of the Cumberland Plain Woodland.
• Explore how people's actions can impact the environment.
• Examine Australia's unique relationship with bushfires through the perspectives of various stakeholders.
• Discuss strategies for the reduction of human impacts on threatened ecosystems.

Focus Syllabus Outcomes

Geography

• Describe the diverse features and characteristics of places and environments (GE3-1)
• Explain interactions and connections between people, places and environments (GE3-2)
• Compare and contrast influences on the management of places and environments (GE3-3)
• Acquire, process and communicate geographical information using geographical tools for inquiry (GE3-4)