Around Oz In An Hour - Discover Australia

Facilitated Day Program
Years: Grade 3 - 12
Students: up to 60 students
Duration: 1 hour
2012 cost: $5.00 per student (minimum group cost $75.00)
2013 cost: $5.50 per student (minimum group cost $77.00)
Teacher / student ratio: 1:15

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Discover Australia’s diverse and changing landscapes
Explore the variety of weird and wonderful Australian plants
Connect your senses as you compare the conditions of each unique ecosystem

Have you ever walked across Australian in an hour?
Students explore lush, green humid rainforests, the wind swept plants of the Tasmanian alpine, investigate Australia’s threatened grasslands and immerse themselves in the arid dry mallee region through inquiry based explorations of the diverse and unique ecosystems of Australian plants.

Resources
Download 'Rainforest Gully (teacher notes PDF - 593 KB)
Download Plants of the Mallee Shrublands (teacher notes PDF - 635 KB)

The Australian Curriculum – Science Links

Nature of Science: Science helps us to understand our world and can be used to make predictions, science ideas and understandings change as new evidence becomes available

Science in the community: People in the local community use science in a range of ways for example in caring for plants and animals and informing sustainable practices

Influence of science / Science and culture: Science has led to changes in the way people live and its applications both influence, and can be influenced by, personal and community choices including making decisions about resource use and sustainable management of the environment

Structure and function of living things: The obvious structural features of plants and animals and the functions of these features and how the features of fossils inform understanding about living things of the past

Life cycles: Life cycles and reproductive processes of plants and animals

Grouping living things: Grouping living things on the basis of observable characteristics

Relationships and Interactions of living things: Interactions between living things in a habitat, including simple food chains in different environments

Change at the Earth's surface: Some identifiable characteristics of the Earth’s surface are the result of natural processes of change, such as weathering and erosion

Using Earth's resources: Human activity, such as the use and management of water, energy sources and mineral resources, can have consequences for the environment and other living things