Glenora District School - Waste & Wildlife
After successfully running workshops at the school last year, we headed back to visit Glenora District School for our Waste and Wildlife incursion with the Grade 3/4 and 5/6 classes.
As the number of bird flu cases rise and spread across the state and country, it was great to see the students thinking more holistically about how humans can make conditions more favourable for wildlife, and in turn, more resilient to growing pressures like litter, habitat loss and diseases.
For this session, we brought in a new matching game where we gave the students images of wildlife, their habitat and food types, and they had to work together with their table to match them. The students really enjoyed this problem solving and it was great to see them start to think more broadly about the different components that create a safe environment and home for each of our focus animals (playtpus, microbat, wallaby and little penguin).
Laura’s idea from the 5/6 class, that made it onto the class favourites, was to “Get a bat house,” while Beau came up with an invention of making a fence that has a bin underneath it that can catch and store rubbish from litter being blown by the wind into the river.
We were excited to see Matilda’s idea to “Make a community group to go into public places and pick up rubbish”
And Jack’s pledge to “Make a garden group” True Landcare members in the making!
Across the two classes, there were also lots of ideas about contacting companies to use more sustainable packaging and picking up litter whenever they see it.
The students seemed to really care and connect with their focus animal and it was great to see the enthusiasm of environmental stewardship being carried throughout the students' learning.
📷 Glenora District School
Landcare Tasmania’s Waste & Wildlife Awareness workshops are supported by the Tasmanian Waste and Resource Recovery Board, which is funded by the Tasmanian Government.
