Society and the Environment in WildScaper

Digital story telling in WildScaper enables students explore time, place, societies and social systems. WildScaper's content about Australian birds and flora and the habitats they exist in, provide students a resource to view and value important aspects of society and the environment.

Learning activities in WildScaper introduce students to concepts such as biodiversity, habitat, ecosystem and sustainability. Teachers can design assignments that consider the impact of people on environments and how environments shape human activities, including the roles of cultural, social, economic and political systems in environmental decision-making.

Students can work in groups to prepare WildScaper assignments bringing material from all learning areas together as a software application. Using a combination of WildScapers library, other print and electronic media and personal observations and records from field visits students can develop a multi-level WildScaper game apportioning tasks across members of the group.

Society and Environment learning ideas and activities in WildScaper:

• Understanding the past.
• Investigate causation of environmental change since European settlement in Australia.
• Gathering and analysing primary and secondary sources of information.
• commitment to positively influence present and future events and issues.
• Knowledge of interconnections, interactions and interdependence of people and natural and built environments.
• Unique place of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultures in Australi.a
• Investigate and evaluate diverse and changing environmental practices.
• Understand environmental changes locally and internationally as part of human activity in the past, present and future.
• Experience and appreciate the diversity of natural and built environments.
• Create and use images and texts to identify features of different natural environments.
• Examine environmental impacts on ecosystems.
• Develop an understanding of the conflicting needs to protect habitats, maintain recreational use and consumption of renewable and non-renewable resources.
• Pose questions about human land use and the resultant impact on the environment.
• Visit a built or natural site, observe and record information about location, climate, special features, historical significance and possible threats/ problems associated with the site.
• Identify possible strategies for the future management of local environments eg creek bed, natural bushland, school grounds.
• Create multimodal presentation incorporating text, audio and graphics.
• Develop ability to identify Australian indigenous plant and animal species.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

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