Living Systems | Kamay Botany Bay EEC
Stage 4 - Science
Location
Kamay Botany Bay Environmental Education Centre, Kamay Botany Bay National Park, Kurnell
Overview
The Living systems program provides students with first-hand fieldwork experiences in the coastal ecosystems of Kamay Botany Bay National Park. Students investigate coastal woodland and marine rock platform environments, examining how living things are adapted to survive in their habitats.
Through field observations, classification activities, abiotic measurements and ecosystem investigations, students develop an understanding of the relationships between organisms and their environment, including how matter and energy flow through ecosystems.
The program also explores human impacts, population changes and sustainable environmental management, including the importance of Aboriginal knowledge in caring for Country.
Students engage in scientific practices such as observation, data collection, classification, analysis and communication to develop their understanding of how ecosystems function as interconnected living systems.
- SC4-LIV-01 - describes the role, structure and function of a range of living systems and their components
- SC4-WS-02 identifies questions and makes predictions to guide scientific investigations
- SC4-WS-05 uses a variety of ways to process and represent data
- Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander histories and cultures
- Sustainability
- Literacy
- Numeracy
- Critical and creative thinking
- Difference and diversity
| 10.00 - 10:30 | Introduction, toilets & fruit break/recess. |
| 10:30 - 11:30 | Coastal woodland ecosystem investigation |
| 11:30 - 12:30 | Animal adaptations investigation |
| 12:30 - 1:00 | Lunch |
| 1:00 - 2:00 | Marine rock platform ecosystem |
| 2:00 | Toilet break, reflection, wrap up, roll call and departure |
* There may be variations to timetable based on specific location, group size and weather
Students will
- Classify living things based on similarities and differences.
- Identify structural, behavioural and physiological adaptations.
- Investigate abiotic factors in ecosystems.
- Examine how matter and energy move through ecosystems
- Examine how human activity affects ecosystems and species populations.