Teachers Resources - Secondary Students
Environmental Awareness
| Who Eats Who? - Through a study of food webs, students learn how trees support life. | |
| Instruction sheet | Activity sheet "Who Eats Who?" |
| School Trees - Analyse the trees in your school environment and learn the reasons for planting various types of trees. | |
| Instruction sheet | Activity sheet "School Trees" |
| Enemies of the Trees - Aims to familiarise students with the hazards that a tree may face in its lifetime. | |
| Instruction sheet | Activity sheet "Enemies of the Trees" |
| Natures Recyclers - Helps to better understand the processes involved in the recycling of matter. | |
| Instruction sheet | Activity sheet "Natures Recyclers" |
| Wonderful Worms - Enables students to observe the earthworm's role in returning plant nutrients to the soil. | |
| Instruction sheet | Activity sheet "Wonderful Worms" |
| Environmental Drama - Develop and understanding of the structure of local community and engage in stimulating debate about Environmental Issues. | |
| Instruction sheet | Activity sheet "Environmental Drama" |
| Salty Searches - Introduces students to the concept of salinity, its causes and effects | |
| Instruction sheet | Activity sheet "Salty Searches" |
| Dynamic Dunes - How sand dunes are formed, vegetation in dune stabilisation and te effects on sand dunes by natural and human causes | |
| Instruction sheet | Activity sheet "Dynamic Dunes" |
| Indigenous Plants - Helps students become aware of indigenous plant communities and their importance | |
| Instruction sheet | Activity sheet "Indigenous Plants" |
| Going Going Gone! - Helps students develop an appreciation of the diversity of plant life and of the implications of the loss of this diversity | |
| Instruction sheet | Activity sheet "Going Going Gone!" |
| The Leaf - Storage of Food - Increases students understanding of the products of photosynthesis | |
| Instruction sheet | Activity sheet "The Leaf - Storage of Food" |
| This is Your Life - Familiarises students with the annual growth rings on a cross section of a tree trunk | |
| Instruction sheet | Activity sheet "This is Your Life" |
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Fact Sheets
Sir Joseph Banks
The Discovery of Australian Plants
From Seed to Tree
Collecting seed from Native Plants
Trees Provide Shade & Shelter
The importance of trees for Shade and Shelter in Urban and Country environments
Trees Protect and Enrich the soil
Soil is an integral part of the natural environment. The structure of soil affects the quality of air, water, plant and animal life.
Trees Provide Animals with Food and Shelter
Human activity such as the clearing of land has brought about many changes in our environment.
Trees Provide for our Energy Needs
Until relatively recently, timber was used as a primary source of energy in Australia. Firewood was used for heating and cooking, and as
fuel for steam trains and paddle steamers