Stage 3 - The Living World

During the full day fieldwork excursion, students:

• An exploration walk searching for living things
• Introduction to frogs and their life cycle, structural and behavioural adaptation
• Food web game
• Investigation of the wetland and an assessment of whether the Striped Marsh Frog lives there
• Data collection, including dip netting and invertebrate tree shakes.

Cost

• North Sydney LGA schools - Free
• Government Schools: $15 per student  (GST-free)
• Non-Government Schools: $30 per student (GST-free).

Location

The Coal Loader Centre for Sustainability, Waverton.

View the Google Excursion Map with approximate walking route, meeting location and pick up location. Please note the bus drop off and pick up point is The Coal Loader Centre for Sustainability at 2 Balls Head Rd, Waverton.

Key syllabus outcomes and content

Key syllabus outcomes

• plans and conducts scientific investigations to answer testable questions, and collects and summarises data to communicate conclusions ST3-1WS-S
• examines how the environment affects the growth, survival and adaptation of living things ST3-4LW-S

Skills and outcomes

Questioning and Predicting

• make and justify predictions about scientific investigations (ACSIS231, ACSIS232)

Processing and analysing data

• construct and use a range of representations, including tables and graphs, to represent and describe observations, patterns or relationships in data employ appropriate technologies to represent data (ACSIS090, ACSIS107)

Planning and conducting investigations

• identify questions to investigate scientific ideas plan and apply the elements of scientific investigations to answer problems identify potential risks in planning investigations manage resources safely (ACSIS086,ACSIS103)