NSW Environmental Education Centres

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Royal National Park Environmental Education Centre

Royal National Park EEC

The Royal National Park Environmental Education Centre is located in the Royal National Park. Our qualified and highly experienced Department of Education teachers facilitate programs in the field and at schools.

We have access to a variety of unique natural and cultural areas.  We offer a diverse range of curriculum based environmental education programs for kindergarten through year 12. 

The centre aims to foster in students an appreciation of their environment to enhance their relationship with it and to assist in the development of responsibility for its future. Through supporting students and the community, we hope that they become better earth citizens and be equipped to undertake positive environmental action.

The centre places great emphasis on developing hands-on, integrated programs that are individually designed to meet the needs of visiting groups. Book with us for high quality school excursions and incursions linked to syllabus outcomes. The centre sits on Dharawal Country.

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Amazing adaptations

Science

Students become scientists for the day on a visit to the Royal National Park, exploring the living world. They examine structural features and adaptations of native plants and animals and investigate the physical conditions of at least one environment.

Learning Experiences

Students:

  • examine relevant preserved animals and discuss their adaptations for survival
  • find and observe animals relevant to the ecosystem visited, e.g. birdwatching, dipnetting, crab searching, finding invertebrates in a leaf litter survey
  • describe the local environment and its physical conditions
  • learn about plant adaptations on a bushwalk
  • complete scratch art illustrating a plant adaptation
  • measure and record physical conditions using scientific equipment

Program details

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Living World

Science

A student:

  • analyses interactions between components and processes within biological systems SC5-14LW

Learning activities may include:

  • Consider human activities and their impact on the ecosystem
  • Measure and record abiotic factors
  • Record flora and fauna observed during fieldwork and identify introduced species
  • Observe evidence of cycles in the ecosystem
  • Complete food chains relevant to the ecosystem
  • Consider ways that the Dharawal people sustainably managed the ecosystem
  • Observe animals as relevant to the ecosystem, e.g. bird watching, dipnetting for macroinvertebrates, invertebrate search, crab search

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Sound scapes and sound maps

A soundscape is made up of all the different sounds that you can hear around you - the natural sounds from living creatures and environmental sounds like water and wind, and sounds from vehicles and machines.
Do you take time to listen to the sounds in nature? Practice your skills of listening deeply and try to identify what you hear. The more we listen, the more we can understand the world around us.

Student activities

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We would like to pay our respects and acknowledge the traditional custodians of the land and also pay respect to Elders both past and present.

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