Mandurah Samphire
Creery Wetlands and Samphire Cove - Home of the Quenda also known as the Southern Brown Bandicoot

Education Package

Learning Objectives and Curriculum Links

This education package is designed for use in primary and secondary grades. It includes a variety of activities, printable worksheets and electronic templates that allow you to tailor the learning experiences to best suit your program, resources and the needs of your class.

Objectives

This unit of work provides students with an opportunity to:

  • Identify flora and fauna in a wetland environment
  • Identify human impact in a wetland environment
  • Investigate a procedure used to create a wetland environment
  • Identify strategies used to maintain a wetland habitat in an urban environment
  • Provide an argument with supporting evidence for the conservation of wetland environments
  • Cooperate and work well in team situations
  • Clearly present findings to an audience using appropriate methods

 

Curriculum Links

The Mandurah Samphire Education Package is designed as a resource for schools. Below is an outline of the intended learning outcomes as recognised by the Curriculum Framework developed by the Curriculum Council of Western Australia. This section highlights target Overarching Learning Outcomes, Values and Learning Area Statements.

 

Overarching Learning Outcomes

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Students use language to understand, develop and communicate ideas and information and interact with others. Students recognise when and what information is needed, locate and obtain it from a range of sources and evaluate, use and share it with others. Students select, use and adapt technologies. Students understand and appreciate the physical, biological and technological world and have the knowledge and skills to make decisions in relation to it. Students are self-motivated and confident in their approach to learning and are able to work individually and collaboratively. Students recognise that everyone has the right to feel valued and be safe, and, in this regard, understand their rights and obligations and behave responsibly.

 

Values


4. SOCIAL AND CIVIC RESPONSIBILITY
5. ENVIRONMENTAL RESPONSIBILITY
The commitment to exploring and promoting the common good and meeting individual needs without infringing the basic rights of others. This includes the encouragement of each person to participate in democratic processes, to value diversity of cultural expression, to respect legitimate authority, to promote social justice and to support the use of research for the improvement of the quality of life.
 The commitment to developing an appreciative awareness of the interdependence of all elements of the environment, including humans and human systems, and encouraging a respect and concern for Australia’s natural and cultural heritage and for forms of resource use that are regenerative and sustainable.

 

Learning Area Statements

Society and Environment
Science
English

INVESTIGATION, COMMUNICATION AND PARTICIPATION
1. Students investigate the ways in which people interact with each other and with their environments in order to make informed decisions and implement relevant social action.

PLACE AND SPACE
2. Students understand that the interaction people have with places in which they live is shaped by the location, patterns and processes associated with natural and built features.

NATURAL AND SOCIAL SYSTEMS
6. Students understand that systems provide order to the dynamic natural and social relationships occurring in the world.

INVESTIGATING
1. Students investigate to answer questions about the natural and technological world using reflection and analysis to prepare a plan; to collect, process and interpret data; to communicate conclusions; and to evaluate their plan, procedures and findings.

ACTING RESPONSIBLY
4. Students make decisions that include ethical consideration of the impact of the processes and likely products of science on people and the environment.

SCIENCE IN SOCIETY
5. Students understand the nature of science as a human activity.

EARTH AND BEYOND
6. Students understand how the physical environment on Earth and its position in the universe impact on the way we live.

LIFE AND LIVING
8. Students understand their own biology and that of other living things, and recognise the interdependence of life.

LISTENING
5. Students listen with purpose, understanding and critical awareness in a wide range of situations.

SPEAKING
6. Students speak with purpose and effect in a wide range of contexts.

VIEWING
7. Students view a wide range of visual texts with purpose, understanding and critical awareness.

READING
8. Students read a wide range of texts with purpose, understanding and critical awareness.

WRITING
9. Students write for a range of purposes and in a range of forms using conventions appropriate to audience, purpose and context.

 

 

 

 
 
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