Patterns in Nature

Students discover the sights, sounds, smells and feel of the bush as they discover who calls this forest home. Using scientific catching cubes, they

Investigate the variety of terrestrial invertebrates that inhabit the leaf litter.

Lunch

Students have recess before activities and a lunch break between session 1 and session 2.

Students dip net for aquatic creatures including tadpoles in our purpose-built pond and use our taxidermy and preserved specimens to learn about life cycles, simple food chains and how living things can be grouped.

Cost

$8 per student

Learning intentions

• We are learning to use our senses to investigate our environment
• We are learning to create a printed artwork

Key syllabus outcomes and content

ST1-SCI-01 measures and describes changes in living things, materials, movement, Earth and the sky

The human body’s sense organs detect its environment

• Recognise that the human brain detects information about the surroundings using sense organs, and that it controls and coordinates body functions
• Observe and describe the function and parts of the eye and the ear
• Investigate how taste and smell provide information about the environment
• Pose questions, test and describe textures to investigate the sense of touch

CA1-VIS-01 makes artworks using materials and techniques to represent subject matter and ideas, and describes ways artists convey ideas in artworks

Making: Artists use materials and techniques to represent subject matter and ideas in artworks

• Make artworks to represent subject matter and ideas about their world in realistic, imaginative or expressive ways
• Experiment with painting and printmaking materials and techniques, including ways to layer colours and create textural effects

Tier 2 and Tier 3 Vocabulary:

Senses, sight, hearing, smell, touch, taste, printing, positive, negative, natural, materials