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Illawarra Environmental Education Centre

Illawarra EEC

The Illawarra Environmental Education Centre (IEEC) is a Kindergarten to Year 12 facility of the NSW Department Of Education (DOE).

IEEC is based in Killalea State Park under a licence agreement between the Killalea State Park Trust and the NSW Department Of Education.

Let us help you with your next excursion. Our Science and Geography programs are designed to inspire, engage and enhance students' learning.   The IEEC is staffed by Department Of Education teachers. They are exemplary practitioners of outdoor experiential teaching in environmental and sustainability education.   

Illawarra EEC is on Dharawal Country.

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Energy and forces

Science and Technology

Stage 3 - Physical world

This program focuses upon the difference between contact and non-contact forces and how energy may be transformed from one form to another. Students will have the opportunity to investigate how electrical circuits can be used to control movement, sound and light within systems and circuits. This program will test a student’s ability to design, test and evaluate an electrical system which demonstrates energy transformations, developing their understanding of the relationship between force and energy.

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Investigating science

The future of Kiama's rocky intertidal ecosystem

After researching rock platform organisms in relation to their adaptations and interspecies interactions, students conduct a rock platform investigation in which they use observations and inferences to develop an hypothesis and carry out a field test.  

After processing and analysing both primary and secondary data and information, students design an ongoing rock platform investigation that addresses an aspect of  the depth study inquiry question - How will ocean temperature, water level and acidity rises change the rocky intertidal ecosystem?

Groups then present their investigation methodology to the class (suggested depth study assessment).

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