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Marine Ecosystems & Port Phillip Bay Beaches around St Kilda Explore marine ecosystems and human impacts, learn about our local penguin population, and uncover environmental history through Indigenous perspectives. Find out more. |
Sustainable Living & Urban Biodiversity Port Phillip EcoCentre, St Kilda Learn about sustainable living, get up close with our local biodiversity, create habitat for native species, and understand the local Indigenous culture. Find out more. |
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Incursion: Save Sam the Sea Dragon Incursion to your school Join our puppet Sam the Sea Dragon as you learn about food chains and energy exchanges in an ecosystem, and why our local marine life is threatened by plastic. Find out more. |
Captain Trash Incursion or Beaches around St Kilda Through song and exploration, Captain Trash educates kids of all ages on the five ARRRGHs - Reduce, Reuse, Recycle, Refuse and Remove. Find out more. |
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Program Design
The EcoCentre provides a wide range of sustainability excursion activities covering waste, water, food, biodiversity, climate change and energy allowing you to tailor your excursion to match your curriculum needs, inquiry topic and student projects.
The activities delivered through our sustainability excursions will provide your students with hands-on experiences where they learn about resource consumption, lifestyle choices and actions they can take relating to waste, water, biodiversity, energy, food and climate change. This program can be tailored to suit different levels of understanding, chosen in partnership with teachers at your school to meet the learning outcomes of your curriculum inquiry topic and big questions. Your students will participate in a range of hands-on activities delivered at the Port Phillip EcoCentre in St Kilda. We deliver our activities through the ‘head, heart, hand’ approach to connect students to sustainable living choices and encouraging them to value and care for environmental systems. Our activities have been designed to:
Learning Intentions
Students will:
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The kids absolutely loved it, and the teachers even more so. A number of the students were very inspired and have decided to plant native trees and plants in their gardens! Thank you again for such a wonderful experience, it was the excursion of the year! - Year 3 Teacher |
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We had an amazing time - the kids were really engaged, it was a great kick start to our inquiry unit and the teachers could actually enjoy themselves which never happens on excursion! The most valuable excursion I’ve been involved in for ages. - Year 1/2 Teacher |
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Logistics
These activities are best delivered as 1 hour session where schools with 1, 2, 3 and 5 classes can participate in 1- 3 activities. For excursions with 4 classes we deliver them as 4 x 45 minute activities.
Our maximum is 100 students (4 classes x 25 students) on a day. We deliver excursions over two days for schools with more than 100 students, for example 3 classes (75 students) on one day and 2 classes (50 students) on the second day. |
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Excursions and Incursions
The EcoCentre acknowledges the Kulin Nations, including the Yalukut Weelam clan of the Boon Wurrung language group, traditional owners of the land on which we are located. We pay respects to their Elders past and present, and extend that respect to other Aboriginal and Elder members of our multicultural community.