Education
Our environmental education activity program known as BEAD (Biodiversity Education Aquatic Discovery) aims to connect people to the environment by working in partnership with a number of other organisations to deliver coordinated school and adult education activities covering a range of resource management, biodiversity, water and environmental issues.
Education Packages are delivered to schools and community groups in the local area and have become an integral part of the curriculum. We have several alternatives for delivery:
> Half day rotating sessions
>Full day excursions to a natural reserve or area relevant to the school
>Presentations to individual classes of all ages
>Tailored information sessions – relevant to a topic
>Community events
>Supplying brochures, information and equipment for activities
In our large group sessions, rotate through sessions which may conducted by an assortment of presenters from varying Landcare groups, GBCMA, CMN‘s, Ag Vic, GV Water, GM Water, Parks Victoria, Shire representatives; other environmental groups, local historians and the local Indigenous education officers and anyone else who is passionate enough to want to participate.
The packages are a generic set of activities designed and planned with teachers to fulfil part of the curriculum, not just a one-off day activity. You can choose from the activities below or we can work with you to tailor activities to suit learning needs or units of study.
John has been involved in Landcare for over 20 years and is well known around the region for his collection of bugs and insects. John loves sharing his knowledge with people of all ages, and let’s you get up close and personal to all sorts of spiders, beetles, centipedes and more.
Students learn why planting trees is important to our environment and then get their hands dirty to plant their own tree. They can then watch their plants grow and develop over the years, knowing that they helped create our future landscapes.
Clean Up Australia day is held the first weekend in March and we hold regular rubbish collection sessions with local schools to not only clean up our environment, but to inspire students to learn about the impact of rubbish on their local environment.
Students discover the world of water bugs, their importance in freshwater ecology, and how their presence gives us indicators of the health of our water systems and the wider Catchment.
Why do kids always love talking about poo!
In this activity children try to match the different footprints (tracks) and poo’s (scats) of some
of Australia’s native animals, while learning
fun facts along the way.
Students learn the difference between rare, threatened, endangered & critically endangered, the various threats which adversely affect the survival of different species, and the importance
of animal conservation
In this activity, children are encourage to think about what a habitat is, and what the different habitats are that animals can live in. They then play an interactive game where they have to choose an animal and its habitat and then explain how and why their animal may lose its habitat.
Who doesn’t love a scavenger hunt?! And even better when you are learning at the same time. Children are given a sheet of items to locate in the bush to encourage them to look up high and down low and in places they might not usually look, and for items they might not usually take notice of in our environment.
Native Animal Crowns
We showcase some of our taxidermy animals
in this session and learn about some of
our Australian Native animals. Children are
then able to colour and cut out their own
native animal to turn into an Australian
Native Animal crown.
If you wish to schedule an environmental education session, or would just like to discuss some alternative education activities, please contact us on 03 5821 3530 or email info@gmln.com.au to discuss.