Ecosystems Year 9-10

Connect 

Use the activities in the Teaching Guide (below) to spark students’ curiosity before their zoo visit. 

Connect and Understand 

Students will undertake species identification data collection at Kyabram Fauna Park’s wetlands to discover the abundance of life this biome supports. They will develop their understanding of how critically endangered species depend on other organisms to survive and how these can be affected by human impact.

Your Park visit will include: an introduction to the day, Zoo Teacher workshop (30 minutes), and a self-guided walking trail. Check out your Teaching Guide for other ideas of what to do at the Park.  

Understand 

Use activities in the Teaching Guide to deepen students’ learning back at school. 

Act 

Use the Teaching Guide to enable students to master their knowledge and skills in real-world contexts. 

Ecosystems consist of communities of interdependent organisms and abiotic components of the environment; matter and energy flow through these systems (VCSSU121)

• Students will demonstrate interactions between abiotic and biotic components with a food web activity

Distribution and characteristics of biomes as regions with distinctive climates, soils, vegetation and productivity (VCGGK133)

• Features and characteristics of wetlands

Human alteration of biomes to produce food, industrial materials and fibres, and the environmental effects of these alterations (VCGGK136)

• Discussion of the impact of human settlement on the Western region since the late 1800s