Stage 3 HPGE Nature Documentary Making at the Rocky Shore
Complexity – Making connections between water quality and temperature and the health of the rocky shore. What if the physical conditions changed at the rocky shore? How might climate change have an impact on the creatures of the rocky shore?
Pace – Greater speed of content, less repetition.
Choice – Choice given to demonstrate evidence of learning through different styles of documentaries.
Higher Order Thinking – How will climate change effect our rocky shores? Six thinking hats used for a deeper analysis and justification of students’ responses.
Authenticity – Students take photos of living things found in rock pools and along the tide line to create a documentary to educate others about the importance of our biodiversity and of life on our rocky shores.
Challenge – Students are provided with opportunities to learn advanced level content through engagement with a Marine Biologist. Individual discussions with students are consistently catered to individual interests and learning needs.
Potential for Post-Visit activity –
Authenticity and Challenge – Design thinking, addressing current events and ideas to analyse complex concepts. What can we do to tackle climate change? How can we take action? Using real world problems from the local community to create a problem-based learning project. e.g., waste minimisation projects, regenerating areas with planting, protecting native wildlife and threatened species.
Science and technology K-6:
ST3-4LW-S
A student examines how the environment affects the growth, survival and adaptation of living things.
ST3-1WS-S
A student plans and conducts scientific investigations to answer testable questions, and collects and summarises data to communicate conclusions.
English K-6:
EN3-1A Respond to and compose texts
A student will plan, rehearse and deliver presentations, selecting and sequencing appropriate content and multimodal elements for defined audiences and purposes, making appropriate choices for modality and emphasis.
EN3-2A Respond to and compose texts
A student will compose imaginative and informative texts that show evidence of developed ideas, compose texts that include sustained and effective use of persuasive devices, eg texts dealing with environmental issues, compose increasingly complex print, visual, multimodal and digital texts, experimenting with language, design, layout and graphics.
EN3-3A Understand and apply knowledge of language forms and features.
A student will recognise the effect of multimedia elements, eg film techniques, animation, voice-overs, sound effects, framing, close-ups.
Growth and survival of living things
Students:
- describe how changing physical conditions in the environment affect the growth and survival of living things
Adaptations of living things
Students:
- describe adaptations as existing structures or behaviours that enable living things to survive in their environment
- describe the structural and / or behavioural features of some native Australian animals and plants and why they are considered to be adaptations
About this excursion
This Stage 3 program is designed to develop the talent of students who show high potential in the intellectual domain. It is specifically designed for students who show an interest in science and who would benefit from being able to develop their scientific skills at a higher level. This will be achieved through explicit teaching, challenging learning that extends students, high expectations and providing unique opportunities for students to learn. The students will be learning about the local marine environment with a focus on our rocky shore.
During this excursion students will examine the structural features and adaptations that different species of the rocky shore possess that allow them to survive in an intertidal environment. They will experience firsthand the physical conditions of the site and learn how this impacts on the growth and survival of the tide pool inhabitants. They will discuss with a marine biologist how a changing climate might impact on the survival and adaptations of these species and how we can take actions to help protect the animals and plants that call this environment home. The students will demonstrate their learning through the creation of a documentary using video footage and photographs they have taken at the rocky shore.
This program (and programs of a similar nature) are run annually or bi-annually at Bournda EEC. If your school is interested in being involved in HPGE programs please get in touch.
Excursion activities
Collect data relating to at least 3 different species.
Complete adaptations data collection sheet for at least 3 different species.
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