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
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- Oceans
- Peninsulas
- Rivers/Lakes
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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
Activities include research, visual art projects in response to the environment, creative writing, map making and scientific observation, experiments and journal reflections. While the Enviro program is not formally assessed, students maintain a detailed record of their work and are encouraged to reflect upon their learning and their place in the world.
