Stage 4 - Place and Liveability
Explore how to improve the liveability of places through hands-on fieldwork at Harold Park and Rozelle Bay, focusing on real-world strategies and community roles.
About this excursion
Students will use the Harold Park and Rozelle Bay sites to:
- Identify characteristics of places considered highly liveable
- Examine a range of strategies to enhance liveability
- Assess the role of governments, non-government organisations, communities and individuals in enhancing liveability
- Propose strategies to improve the liveability of a place in Australia
Key Inquiry Question
- Is Harold Park a liveable place?
- How can the White Bay Power Station precinct be transformed into a more liveable place?
Student previsit and follow-up activities
Successful fieldwork visits have direct links to current classroom learning. Pre-visit activities carried out before the excursion will help students better understand the excursion content and provide a sense of connectedness and relevance to classroom learning.
Have students visit the student support website provided on booking and complete any pre-fieldwork activities to familiarise them with the study area.
Activities on the day
- Acquire, process and communicate geographic information to answer a fieldwork question.
- Learn basic geographic tools, including map reading, photo interpretation, field sketching, etc.
- Construct a liveability index to assess areas within the study site, including Harold Park and The Tram Sheds.
- Work in urban planning teams to develop a plan for the White Bay Power Station site to improve liveability.
- Document their fieldwork activities on their own cameras.
Important information
- Government Schools: $15 per student (GST-free)
- Non-Government Schools: $30 per student (GST-free)
Harold Park, Rozelle Bay and the Tramsheds.
View the Google Map with an approximate walking route (1.6km), meeting location, and pickup location.
Please note the bus drop-off and pick-up is at Maxwell St, at the back of the Tramsheds, near the Jubilee Park light Rail Stop.
Students investigate aspects of liveability at study sites, including
- Identification of characteristics for places considered highly liveable
- The impact of environmental quality on liveability
- The influence of accessibility of services and infrastructure on liveability
- strategies to enhance the liveability of a place in Australia.
Integrating the ‘Sustainability’ Cross Curriculum Priority is a feature of the program.
Skills outcomes
Learning activities may include:
- Data gathering
- Mapping
- Field sketching
- Photo interpretation
- Assessing environmental impacts of development using measuring instruments (water quality testing)
- developing Geographic Inquiry Skills, including: Acquiring (what is where), Processing (why is it there), and Communicating (why care)
- Answering a fieldwork question, “Is Harold Park a liveable place, and how can the White Bay Power Station precinct be transformed into a more liveable place?”
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