A Bugs Life

Students participate in a sensory bushwalk, stopping at various sites to observe animal homes, discuss who eats what in the forest and search for invertebrates in the leaf litter of the forest.

Using potter’s clay and natural found materials such a leaves and gumnuts students design and construct their own invertebrate creature.

Lunch

Students have recess before activities and a lunch break between session 2 and session 3.

Students use dipnets in our purpose-built pond to catch and identify living organisms such as tadpoles, dragonflies and other aquatic invertebrates.

Students explore our taxidermied specimens as they learn about life cycles, food chains and how plants and animals depend on each other for survival.

Cost

$8 per student

Learning intentions

• We are learning to observe components of the environment.
• We are learning to identify living things in their habitats in Nattai National Park
• We are learning to describe how plants and animals depend on each other for survival.
• We are learning to represent an invertebrate as a 3D sculpture

Key syllabus outcomes and content

ST2-SCI-01 uses information to investigate the solar system and the effects of energy on living, physical and geological systems

Living things depend on energy and materials to survive

• Identify the systems of earth that make up environments: air-atmosphere, land-lithosphere, water-hydrosphere, living things-biosphere

• 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 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.

CA2-VIS-01 makes artworks using art forms to represent subject matter and ideas, and describes ways artists convey ideas about their world to audiences through artworks

Making: Artists represent their world through subject matter and ideas in artworks

• Investigate the properties of materials and experiment with techniques to represent ideas through the construction of 3D sculptural forms

Tier 2 and Tier 3 Vocabulary:

habitat, ecosystem, environment, atmosphere, lithosphere, hydrosphere, biosphere, vertebrate, invertebrate, food-chain, producer, consumer, herbivore, carnivore, insectivore, decomposer.