Environment Program
Common Unit
Overview
This program aims to foster student's interest, knowledge, and commitment to caring for and protecting our natural environment. With a focus on developing innovative solutions to environmental issues, students spend two days of the program on school campus, undertaking investigations and research about their chosen environment and three days/two nights immersed in their chosen environment undertaking experiential fieldwork.
The environments that students can choose to investigate include the following;
- Coasts
- Forests
- Islands
- Mountains
|
- Oceans
- Peninsulas
- Rivers/Lakes
|
This program broadens students understanding of sustainability by helping them to build on their knowledge of the five Sustainable Development Goals about the Planet, through real-world experiences. By enhancing students critical, analytical, and problem-solving skills, students will work towards finding tangible solutions for environmental dilemmas. They will do this by:
- fostering an interest, knowledge, and commitment to caring for and protecting our natural environment
- thinking about how we can address our current and future environmental challenges by incorporating First Australian knowledge and experiences of how to care for Country
- considering community organisations perspectives and current research
- exploring the five Sustainable Development Goals related to the Planet
- understanding how human health and wellbeing are intimately linked to the state of the environment
- to be able to make connections with some of the learning that they have explored in other subject areas, such as Geography, History, Science, Art, and English
- taking action and advocate to create a sustainable future
Assessment
The competency of active citizenship will be assessed through a combination of observation, reflection, and performance-based tasks embedded within both the investigative research based learning activities and the experiential field work learning activities.
