Junior Geologists – ECE Lesson Plan
Learners explore rocks and learn about what a geologist does by sorting a variety of rock samples and cleaning them.
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Learners explore rocks and learn about what a geologist does by sorting a variety of rock samples and cleaning them.
Learners explore their local environment and the many rocks that are found there using their senses of sight and touch. While doing this, they learn about the letter ‘R’.
Learners explore the TRUGG and its palaeontological history experientially. Using their own footprints, they make dinosaur artwork and review the triangle shape while doing so.
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Students learn about the importance of different types of shelters that First Peoples have used in the past. They explore tipis and the significance of this shelter to First Peoples.
Students connect their basic needs to those of First Peoples in the TRUGG. They then explore the concept of a seasonal round and learn how First Peoples have met their basic needs through time.
Students are introduced to the basic needs of all human beings on Earth and compare their basic needs to those of animals in the Geopark and region.
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Students explore what empathy and reconciliation mean both to themselves and to First Peoples in the area.
Students delve into the life of a chosen dinosaur and explore what it looked like, what it ate, where it lived, and what it did while alive.