ISSUE 11 - JULY 26 2022
Reflections
FORTNIGHTLY NEWSLETTER
Science Classroom without Walls
Champagnat 8/1 and MacKillop 8/4 spent the morning at Mullinmur Billabong on Tuesday, 24th and conditions couldn’t have been better. They documented the growth in their 5x5m eco plots. Here’s a little of what students had to say about their learning in this unit:
Bridgette Mason explained that for this Year 8 Integrated Studies 8 week unit they “have a triple lesson one week and a double the following. It gets us out of the classroom and into the environment. We get to see how the land works. It’s a good classroom to learn in. I think some people behave in a different way when we’re not in a classroom. There’s a bit more freedom to explore and be yourself.”
the growth and build up the understory. We already have one tree and few saplings of silver wattle. We’re thinking we’ll add another tree and a few native grasses.”
Liam Sessions: “I like coming down into this natural environment and enjoying looking at the native ducks. I enjoyed making a cheese toasty on the fire” Kiki Collins: “I learnt names of new plants. I learnt how to identify a plant by looking at the leaves, the flowers, and the trunk. It’s been good getting out the classroom and joining in with another class”.
Zac Carroll found “it was pretty easy to identify the trees with the book (local plant identification book). I just flipped through the I.D. book to the tree section and looked the foliage and identified a silver wattle.” Oliver Dixon-Leggett remarked “I guess it’s a bit of an intriguing school learning activity. You get to learn about plants. You might see a single gum tree, but there are hundreds of that species of eucalypts. I didn’t realise that there’d be hundreds of species of the one type of tree.” Isabel Ahrens explained, “We’ve been learning about how we can help the environment and the environmental problems that exist in the community. We selected an area to have our own plot to observe
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