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AoS 2: Moo-ving Toward a Greener Future - Dairy vs Plant-based Milk

Background

A growing number of people are interested in switching to plant-based alternatives to dairy. But, are they any better for the environment and which one is best?

In this program, students will investigate how people make choices about which milk to drink. They will also look at the nutritional value of different milks as well as the impact each has on the environment.

Learning Intentions

In this program students will:

Renewable Energy

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Full Day
Book Program
Year Levels

Background

As the consequences of burning fossil fuels become widely understood, societies worldwide are looking to renewable energy as a potential solution to the threat of climate change. But how do renewable energies work? How do we take the potential energy held in a renewable resource and turn it into electricity?

Superheroes Against Extinction

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Full Day
Book Program
Year Levels
Engage
Explore
Explain
Elaborate
Evaluate
E-Rating

Background

The Environmental Protection and Biodiversity Conservation (EPBC) Act 1999 is the Australian Government’s key legislation to conserve Australian biodiversity. The EPBC protects important flora, fauna, ecological communities and heritage places. There are over 550 animals listed on the EPBC.

Designing an advertising campaign about an Australian animal listed on the EPBC, will help educate your community about the plight of the endangered species and actions they can take to help ensure its survival.

Plastic… Fantastic?

Ecolinc
Full Day
Book Program
Year Levels

Background

The first synthetic plastic to be created was rooted in sustainability. In the 1860s too much ivory was being used to make billiard balls, so a type of plastic called celluloid was developed to make them with instead. Over the next century dozens of synthetic plastics were created, in many different strengths and shapes. It was thought that using these synthetic materials instead of natural resources would be beneficial to the environment.

AoS 1: Conquering Climate Change

Background

Climate change has been a prominent media topic for several decades; most students are likely aware that it is caused by emissions from continuous burning of fossil fuels, and of the imminent dangers it presents. Reducing or eliminating emissions is an obvious mitigation exercise, but is that enough? Do we also need to remove the existing emissions from the environment, and how can we do that?

AoS 2: Water Management

Background

Environmental management is concerned with the understanding of the structure and function of the earth systems, as well as of the ways in which humans relate to their environment. Environmental management is therefore concerned with the description and monitoring of environmental changes, with predicting future changes and with attempts to maximise human benefit and to minimise environmental degradation due to human activities.

AoS 1: Gliders and Bandicoots

Background

Sugar Glider (Petaurus breviceps)

Like many Australian species, Sugar gliders are in decline. They require mature trees with well-developed hollows. Habitat destruction and fragmentation are of particular concern, reducing the number of available hollows. However, in Tasmania, where Sugar Gliders were introduced, they have become a pest, threatening populations of the endangered Swift Parrot.

Eastern Barred Bandicoot  (Perameles gunii)

AoS 1: Managing Pollution

Background

In this area of study, students will investigate three pollutants of national or global concern. One pollutant comes from each category of air, water and soil pollution. They will explain how these pollutants move through, and affect, the atmosphere, biosphere, hydrosphere and lithosphere, and compare treatment and management options for each.

The three pollutants to be investigated will be Sulfur Dioxide in the air, Oil in water and heavy metals, in particular Copper, in soils.

Learning Intentions

In this program students will:

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