NSW Environmental Education Centres

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Bournda Environmental Education Centre

Bournda EEC

Bournda EEC (BEEC) is a Department of Education school located within Bournda National Park, a superb natural setting ideally suited for the delivery of environmental education and sustainability programs across a range of key learning areas. We service a large catchment of K-12 schools across rural south-east NSW. Programs are also offered in schools and at other off-site locations as required.

Overnight programs for students are offered, with camping available at the Hobart Beach Camping Ground and the Field Studies Hut. BEEC also delivers professional learning opportunities for teachers, assists schools with environmental audits and provides teaching resources to support student fieldwork activities. BEEC has developed many partnerships to enhance curriculum opportunities for students in our rural communities.

A highly skilled, educated, vibrant and inclusive Environmental Education Centre, where students are actively engaged in meaningful and challenging learning experiences that build resilience, wellbeing and the capacity to contribute as responsible citizens in an ecologically sustainable society.

Bournda EEC will work with other Environmental Education & Zoo Education Centres (EZEC), teachers, communities of schools and partners to implement sustainability education through meaningful learning experiences in, about and for the natural, built and cultural environment. We strive to be the leaders in providing students with the skills, values and opportunities to act as responsible citizens in an ecologically sustainable society.

Bournda EEC is located on Yuin country. 

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Nature documentary making

English

Stage 2

Move over David Attenborough! Here comes the next generation of nature documentary makers. Send a group of students along to Bournda National Park to learn the art of nature film making. Students will be taught to develop a script, to use a variety of film making techniques using iPad and to edit in the field using iMovie. The students will work as a team of mobile movie makers – visiting a variety of locations around the park focusing on the need to protect our natural environment for future generations.

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AUSMAP microplastics survey

Earth and Environmental Science

Stage 4-6

AUSMAP (Australian Microplastic Assessment Project) is a nation-wide citizen science program designed to document and analyse microplastic pollution in Australian aquatic environments. By engaging high school students and communities in citizen science activities, we empower our participants to take leadership on systemic solutions.

AUSMAP is supported by a series of teaching resources, enabling teachers and educators to model guided inquiry and engage students in
meaningful fieldwork. The teaching resources address syllabus outcomes in a range of key learning
areas, including Science and Geography for Years 7-12.

Bournda EEC is a AUSMAP Regional Hub. Bournda teachers are accredited providers and will facilitate the AUSMAP methodology, collecting, analysing and sharing microplastic data from a range of aquatic environments. High school groups can partake in this rigorous scientific methodology and collection protocol by contacting Bournda EEC, acting as local AUSMAP Regional Hub. Workshops are available throughout the year and we will start our school bookings during National Science Week.

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Learning resources

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Student activities

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