Listening &Speaking (E.C): Have students sitting on the ground quietly with eyes closed.

What sounds can be heard? Discuss with a partner what you heard. Was there any that were the same? What do you think would be different if the same was done at school? Movement & Physical Activity, Number, Listening & Speaking (M.E): In pairs, Perspectives & perform a Interpretations, beachcombing activity. What Designing & kinds of things Creating (E): can be found Looking at the animals that live on this beach? How many there, draw a picture of where shells could you find? you think they they fit on the food chain? How do they effect the ecosystem?

Listening & Speaking, Writing, Perspectives & Interpretations , Designing & Creating(E): Looking at the beach and the animals that live there, create a rap on how rubbish and pollution can effect their lives in the natural environment. How can we help them? Observing & Investigating, Data Collection, Representation and Interpretation (E.C): Investigate the different life forms that live in the Port Phillip Bay of which Dromana is a part of (fish, crustaceans, birds, seaweed, urchins, etc). What kind of habitats do they have? Collect the data and present it in a graph.

Listening & Speaking, Movement & Physical Activity (M.C): When using walking paths in the community, what kind of things do we need to be Listening & mindful of? Rules? Other pedestrians, cars? Have Speaking, Observing & students demonstrate some concepts and Movement & Investigating, Reading & behaviours. Physical Activity Viewing (M.E.C): Do a (M.E): Discussing compare/contrast of the water safety students experiences at practices while Dromana beach to a being at the picture book of sand beach, have Location & dunes. Why does students in groups Transformation, Dromana beach look perform a role Spatial Concepts, different? Differences play of what they Historical Design & Creativity between man-made and know about being Questions & (E.C): Looking at the natural environments? safe by the water. Research, present, map the What dangers are Listening & location of Dromana Historical Questions & there? (coast/beach, shops, Speaking (E.C): Research, Discussion & roads, the school, Conducting a Comparison, where students Questioning & class discussion Observing & Investigating, live? Etc) Predicting (E.C): Interpreting, Listening & on the Dromana Look at pictures and Speaking, Designing & Observing & Investigating, Data pier and when maps of the landscape, Creating (M.E.C): Looking Collection, Representation & and why it was present and past. How around the area, what signs Interpretation, Listening & built (possible has it changed? What do can be seen? What do they Speaking (E): Have students spend project topic) you think the community mean? Discuss with the a brief amount of time bird and environment will person next to you. Create watching. How many could you look like in 10 years and draw your own sign, see? What kinds of birds were time? ensuring to write a small seen? Make a tally and draw a explanation of its meaning. picto-graph, ensuring to include heading, x and y axis and labels for both.

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