Science in WildScaper

WildScaper provides opportunities to engage students in learning that reaches out to the real world supporting learners construct and build on their own knowledge and understandings.

WildScaper allows students to explore the diversity of living things and their relationships with each other and the environment allowing them to think through environmental challenges and issues.

Using the content of WildScapers library, additional electronic and print resources together with personal observations students can investigate how humans affect the survival of living things, change the environment and how interactions between living things in the environment change.

WildScaper can stimulate students to investigate natural processes that change the environment over periods of time such as tsunami, droughts, weathering and erosion. It can also lead students to the concept of sustainable environmental management.

Science learning ideas and activities in WildScaper :

• Identify the way earth sustains life and life cycles.
• Identify the ways in wich the earth and things living upon it are affected by the sequence of natural cycles.
• Identify links between natural phenomena and human activities.
• Explore the diversity of living things, sustainable practices and ehtical issues.
• Identify the way living things are related and interdependent.
• Develop an understanding of sustainable natural resource management.
• Develop an understanding of the cause and effects of natural disasters.
• Research the environmental impact of European settlement of Australia.
• Research the advantages and disadvantages of developing a conservation park in a local area.
• Describe the impact of variations in weather patterns on Australia's landscape ie research and develop a variety of game levels reflecting different climatic conditions.
• Describe the structure of a plant its functions and the food chains it may support.
• Suggest ideas to encourage the preservation of the natural environment for all living things.
• Visit and examine a local ecosystem, record observations, research further information on species and conditions then prepare a unique WildScaper game using blank symbols.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

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