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Using the Environment<br />

Nature Walk<br />

(page 83)<br />

Natural or Built?<br />

(page 84)<br />

My Environment<br />

(page 85)<br />

The Natural Environment<br />

Teachers Notes<br />

• Explain to students how and why the natural environment is important to<br />

everyone.<br />

• Discuss the environment around the school. Brainstorm and list on the board<br />

some things that may be found in the school grounds.<br />

• Discuss the worksheet with the students and tell them what is required.<br />

• Take students for a nature walk around the school grounds, focusing on the<br />

natural things in the environment.<br />

• Back in the classroom, complete the worksheet and discuss the nature walk.<br />

• Discuss the characteristics of a natural environment. (For example, the land<br />

has been ‘untouched’.)<br />

• Ask the students to give examples of built environments, such as parks and<br />

gardens etc.<br />

• Ask ‘How do we know if something is built or natural?’ Accept and discuss<br />

all answers.<br />

• Distribute magazines to students.<br />

• Students select pictures of natural environments to cut and glue onto the<br />

worksheet.<br />

• Students select pictures of built environments to cut and glue onto the<br />

worksheet.<br />

• Ask ‘What is a natural environment?’ Accept and discuss all answers.<br />

• Make a list on the board of some things that may be found in a natural<br />

environment. (Include also some things that are not found, such as houses,<br />

cars etc.)<br />

• Choose various students to come up and tick one thing that is from a natural<br />

environment.<br />

• Question students on why cars and houses are not a part of a natural<br />

environment.<br />

• Complete the worksheet.<br />

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Answers<br />

2. (a) no (b) yes (c) yes<br />

Make an<br />

Environment<br />

(page 86)<br />

• Select various students to talk about the differences between natural and built<br />

environments.<br />

• Encourage students to talk about why it is important for us to look after the<br />

environment.<br />

• Discuss ways in which people can look after their environment; for example,<br />

by not littering beaches or the countryside, replanting trees etc.<br />

• Discuss the consequences of not looking after the environment.<br />

• Students collect various materials from the natural environment. These could<br />

include sand, pebbles, twigs, fallen leaves and bark. Students could work in<br />

small groups, and create their models in a box or plastic container filled with<br />

sand. Materials such as cardboard tubes, Blu-tack and plasticine may also<br />

be needed—though make sure students are aware these are not natural.<br />

Students record the process of making their environment on the worksheet.<br />

82 Australian <strong>Aboriginal</strong> <strong>Cult</strong>ure R.I.C. Publications www.ricgroup.com.au<br />

ISBN 978-1-86311-807-1

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