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Enviro 2006 - Wollongong Botanic Gardens
Workshop & Presenters
1. WATER CONSERVATION AND RECYCLING BlueScope Steel
Students will have the opportunity to learn about water conservation, seeing what happens to water from a house, how it can be captured and used in the home, garden and to create a frog habitat, rather than letting it go down the drain.
Students will also have the opportunity to see that planting native trees is a way of reducing salinity in deserts/drylands and increasing biodiversity. Students will receive a native shrub and a sample bag from BlueScope Steel.
2. MAKING BACKYARD HABITATS Habitat Ponds
Native animals are a part of biodiversity, this workshop will show students how they can turn there own backyard or school ground into a habitat for native animals.
3. SURF, SUN, SAND Wollongong City Council’s Recreation & Natural Resources Division.
This workshop will show the students how to use our beaches in a more environmentally friendly way. The control of litter and animals on the beach. To be sun smart, always have good sun protection and also the use of cars, jet skies and quads as part of lifeguards essential rescue equipment.
4. WHAT YOU DON’T EAT YOUR GARDEN WILL Wollongong City Council’s Environment & Health Division
Children will discover that composting is a fun, interesting and easy way to recycle their food waste and turn it into nutritious soil. They will also observe creatures or “mini –beasts” that live in the compost ecosystem. Their observations will be utilised creatively when they participate in making their own compost creature from air-dry clay. They will be able to take their sculpture home with them and place it in a special part of their garden.
5. WONDERFUL WORMS Wollongong City Council’s Environment & Health Division
Discover how residents and schools can RECYCLE their food waste instead of wasting it by sending it to Landfill. Almost 50% of household bins contain food waste it which could easily be composted or worm farmed so that vital nutrients can go back into our soil as natural fertiliser.
Children will discover how worms live, what they like to eat and how to maintain a worm farm. Each student will make a miniature worm farm that they can take back to school or home with them.
6. BIO DIVERSITY & ECOSYSTEMS Dept. of Environment & Conservation Parks & Wildlife Division
The students will explore different habitats in the National Parks caravan WANDA “A National Park on Wheels”.
7. FROM RAINFORESTS TO DESERTS - ANIMALS Illawarra Environmental Education Centre
The students will search for indirect and direct evidence of animals in rainforest and then in the desert area to assess biodiversity.
8. FROM RAINFORESTS TO DESERTS – PLANTS Illawarra Environmental Education Centre
The students will compare and contrast adaptation of rainforest and desert plants to assess interaction between living and non-living environments.
9. MACRO-INVERTEBRATES / BUGS. The Illawarra Grammar School
Teaching students about the importance of macro-invertebrates in water bodies. Showing students how to sample and identify macro-invertebrates, determining water quality.
10. INTERTIDAL MARINE TOUCHPOND Wollongong City Council’s Environment & Health Division
The children will be interacting with a simulated rock pool containing examples of local inter-tidal flora and fauna. The touch pool will enable children to experience sensory heightening due to the interacting and contact aspects of this display. Fact sheets will also be circulated to the children to be used as a future reference source. The display will also encompass a lecture on how the inter-tidal flora and fauna interact and how human impacts affect it.
11. WATER BIRD SURVEY Wollongong City Council’s Environment & Health Division
In this workshop students will use a pictorial guide to identify the diversity of water bird species around the duck pond area of the botanic gardens. Students will also identify how the birds are using the habitat.
12. FROM THE STREET TO THE CREEK TO THE BEACHWollongong City Council’s Environment & Health Division
By participating in a story about a creek and being involved in an activity, students will learn about some of the causes of water pollution, the effect it has on freshwater and marine environments and some of the ways to prevent creeks and beaches from becoming polluted.
13. I LIVE IN A CATCHMENT Wollongong City Councils Environment & Health Division
This workshop starts with introducing students to the water cycle, explains how we have evaporation, transpiration and precipitation and how it falls on the Catchment then makes its journey from the top of the Catchment to the sea.
14. EXPLORING THE RAINFOREST Wollongong City Council’s Recreation & Natural, Resources Division
This workshop will look at the natural environment with a walk through the rainforest, looking at the plants, birds and other animals that live there.
15. NURSERY TOUR AND SEED PROPAGATION. Wollongong City Council's Recreation & Natural Resources Division.
Staff will give the students a quick tour through the nursery, highlighting glasshouse and shadehouse facilities re. Uses for these structures. The students will be introduced to various types of seed. They will also be shown different techniques used to sow / germinate seed.
16. PERCY POLLUTE-A-LOT: WHAT IS IN YOUR LOCAL CREEK Wollongong City Council’s Environment & Health Division
This activity graphically introduces students to various human behaviours that can contribute to stormwater pollution in an urban setting, as a creek makes its journey from the headwaters of the Catchment to the sea.
17. FUTUREWORLD FOOTPRINT Futureworld Eco-Technology Centre
Students will learn about the Greenhouse Effect and how our atmosphere works just like a greenhouse to heat up the Earth. Students will discuss how increased greenhouse gas emissions are heating up our planet and look at our Greenhouse model to demonstrate this fact. Students will then learn more about ecological footprints and how we all contribute by using the limited resources of our Planet. Using a giant foot split into different areas to be covered, students will explore and discover ways that they can reduce their footprint on the Earth by using less of the resources available in their daily lives, which in turn will also reduce the amount of Greenhouse Gases produced. Areas covered include food, water, energy and transport. Students will work together to come up with ideas of what they can do on a personal level to improve their local environment and share these thoughts with the other groups and put the foot back together with their ideas recorded upon it.
18. MISSION POSSIBLE-For kids in the Illawarra to wipe out Chemicals in the Home Wollongong City Council’s Environment & Health DivisionAre your students up to the challenge to help the environment by limiting the chemicals around the home?
Children will join Agent Curran in discovering how lethal some household chemicals are and devise new environmentally friendly concoctions that they can use at home. Students will be involved in making cleaning products, bath bombs and cockroach baits using ingredients found in the pantry. They will also receive a copy of Agent Curran’s “Top Secret Concoctions for Eradicating Chemicals in the Home”.
19. FIRE PREVENTION & THE ENVIRONMENT Wollongong Rural Fire Service
This Workshop the students will see fuel reduction and how it has an impact on the environment as well as protect the environment we live in. Also fire safety information.
20. MY FAVOURITE DESERT PLANT Wollongong City Council's Recreation & Natural Resources Division.
Explore Cactus World at Wollongong Botanic World during the World Environment Day celebrations for schools.
Say Hello to Vera- “Aloe Vera”. Avoid ‘Big Tooth”, it has spines the size of teeth. You can milk the cow of the desert, South African Milk Bush. This creature comes with a danger warning because it’s not what it seems.
See these and the other exciting creatures of the Desert and also sign up to enter the ‘My Favourite Desert Plant at Wollongong Botanic Garden’ competition. There are wonderful prizes for this senior primary research competition. Entry forms and competition details will be available to each class on the day.
21. POWER MUNCHES – Wasting our precious resources Wollongong City Council’s Environment & Health Division
Students will learn the real impact that they can make by reducing their home electricity use in this interactive workshop. Students will see how much electricity real home appliances use when in standby mode and translate this into electricity and greenhouse gas emissions.
22. DON’T LET OUR SOIL WASH AWAY Wollongong City Council’s Environment & Health Division
Soil constituent (sand, clay, organic) will be displayed. The children will be encouraged to examined each component in three different trays, we will display unprotected soil, soil protected with a barrier, with grass cover and with mulch. Children will be asked to water the soil and to see the effect of water (eg rain, stormwater) on soil erosion. It could be noticed the soil cover (grass or mulch) will protect the soil from erosion.
23. NO DIG GARDEN Wollongong City Council’s Environment & Health Division.
Students will learn how to grow their own vegetables, herbs and flowers using a simple technique which mirrors nature.
We will build and plant out a mulched garden bed which can be easily recreated at home or school. Students will learn the basic principles of creative reuse of materials, plant propagation, and healthy soils. There will also be a discussion of the journey food makes from paddock to plate.
24. FIND YOUR OWN FOOD Wollongong City Council’s Environment & Health Division.
This workshop will take the students on a tour of the Botanic Gardens to see and experience some of Wollongong’s native bush food, medicine, and tools that were used by the original inhabitants of the area. After the tour they will be able to come back any time and identify the plants themselves and amaze there friend and family.
25. HABITATS AND HOMES. National Parks and Wildlife Services
This workshop identifies and describes the structure and function of living things and ways in which living things interact with other living things and their environment.
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