Teddy Bears' Picnic
Science & Technology
A fun, hands-on program focusing on the needs of living things: plants for food, air, water, and shelter. Students participate in a number of activities to reinforce this concept including a sensory walk, meeting real animals up close, teddy bear games, a walk through the woodland surrounding Thalgarrah and a picnic under the trees.
Investigating Invertebrates
Science & Technology
There are a lot of different invertebrates out there. In this program we go and look for them: in the forest and in the river. Students examine a variety of invertebrates to understand their unique features and the important role they play in their chosen environments. They also perform an investigation to collect data about invertebrates and their environments.
Features of places: Weather
Geography
In this program students examine factors that change the weather. They use maps to navigate their way around the school grounds to look at the temperature in different places. They construct their own weather instrument to measure the wind in different places and read a book that looks at how one animal uses the different weather conditions around the world.
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Supports the State Library unit, visit Features of places - Weather
People, Places & Sheep
Geography
Students visit a working farm adjacent to Thalgarrah to look at tools and equipment used to look after sheep. They also visit a shearing shed. Back at Thalgarrah we look at maps of various scale related to sheep and students create their own map of Swallowfield farm. Using geographical tools we go into the forest to look for evidence of sheep, recording our findings with symbols.
Shelters
In this program students go on a bushwalk to look at a variety of animal shelters in the natural environment. They also build nestboxes for some of our native animals.
