A local habitat
Science and technology
Students investigate how living things depend on each other to survive through hands-on fieldwork along the Honeymoon Track in the Royal National Park. They observe living and non-living features of local habitats, explore relationships between habitats, ecosystems and environments, and use food chains to describe how energy moves between plants and animals. Students also consider how Aboriginal Peoples’ practices support habitats to survive and how people can care for natural environments sustainably.
Excursion site
| 10:00 | Introduction and Acknowledgement of Country (crunch and sip and toilets if needed) |
| 10:20 | Observe preserved animals and consider their habitats and needs |
| 10:40 |
Collect materials and classify as living or non-living Measure and record abiotic factors |
| 11:30 | Recess and toilet |
| 11:50 | One-way bushwalk down the Honeymoon Track to Reids Flat, Audley, observing habitats and evidence of interactions |
| 1:00 | Lunch and toilets |
| 1:30 | Participate in hands-on activities to observe animals and their habitat, e.g., invertebrate search or or birdwatching |
| 2:00 | Conclusion and depart |
* There may be variations to timetable based on specific location, group size and weather
Tier 2:
observe, investigate, describe, depend, survive, interact, transfer, energy, materials, sustainable
Tier 3:
habitat, ecosystem, environment, organism, food chain, producer, consumer, biodiversity, interdependence
Science and Technology K-6 Syllabus (2024)
Physical and living systems depend on energy
Outcomes
- Uses information to investigate the solar system and the effects of energy on living, physical and geological systems ST2-SCI-01
- Poses questions to create fair tests that investigate the effects of energy on living things and physical systems ST2-PQU-01
Living things depend on energy and materials to survive
Content
- Describe how the needs of living things are provided by the atmosphere, hydrosphere and lithosphere
- Describe the relationship between habitat, ecosystem and environment
- Observe and describe living and non-living things in a habitat
- Describe how Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander Peoples’ practices support habitats to survive
- Describe the transfer of energy between plants and animals using food chains, Tier 2 and Tier 3 vocabulary
- Describe ways in which plants and animals depend on each other for survival
"It was an excellent experience to be in nature and learn about habitats. It was also amazing to measure the temp, wind and lux whilst by the river and compare it when we were back at the top of the Honeymoon track."