All Around You, Local Biodiversity is a Year 2 Science Unit focusing on local biodiversity. The unit is closely aligned with the Curriculum into the Classroom (C2C) Year 2 Unit 3 Good to Grow, and developed by the Sunshine Coast QESSI Hub for Sunshine Coast Council’s Living Smart Program

Please note the curriculum linked resources on the Maroochy Waterwatch website are in the original format (as produced for SCC by the QESSI HUB) , and are currently being reviewed and further formatted by the Sunshine Coast Council, ready for launch and inclusion on the Living Smart website in 2014.

In a recent local survey eighty-six per cent of teachers asked for assistance with local biodiversity knowledge in order to provide locally relevant environmental information to their students. The following links will take you to a wealth of information about the environment all around you…..local native species, biodiversity, ecosystems.  

TEACHING SEQUENCE for ALL AROUND YOU Unit (link)

TEACHING RESOURCES and BACKGROUND INFORMATION

COMPLETE UNIT DOCUMENTS 

1 All Around You – Curriculum Learning Outcomes

2 Good to Grow C2C ACARA Unit Outline

3 Prior learning and leading towards learning

4 ACARA Cross-Curriculum Priority of Sustainability – learning connection

5 ACARA Cross-curriculum priority Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Histories & Cultures

6 Nature Deficit

7 About Observation

8 The Nature Table

9 Get to Know a Local Native Plant

10 The living Classroom – School Grounds as Learning Landscapes

11 Activities supporting local biodiversity learning

12 Connect local biodiversity learning to school SEMPs