ARID RECOVERY EDUCATION PROGRAM - Inter-active learning opportunities for arid zone restoration.
THE PRINCIPLE OF INTERACTIVE EDUCATION:
Students can be taught about issues of environment and threatened natural zones, native vegetation and native animals, and the severity of impacts from feral invasion and European settlement on the arid zone, but it is the process of being involved, in doing, that creates an empathy and an understanding for the need for its restoration and preservation.
Arid Recovery is developing a unique education program catering for students from R-12 and beyond, offering interactive learning experiences inclusive of educational visits to the Reserve. Choose from a single day visit, or an overnight or extended stay. We also offer training in modules for a certificate in Conservation and Land Management, contact the Community Education Officer for more details.
Click on the link below to download more information on options for visits, fees, accomodation options, & booking form.
Opportunities to get involved in special events at Arid Recovery:
Special events such as Annual VertebrateTrapping and Annual CageTrapping offer special opportunities for groups of students to get up close to a wide range of arid zone animals, many of which are highly threatened species, and to watch first hand how the AR field staff process the animals & record data. Check the Calendar for details.
Educational visits - choose from day visits, overnight or extended.
Each educational visit offers a comprehensive program of activities which can be tailored to suit individual schools needs. The Program is designed to be hands on so that students can gain a practical insight into the restoration and pest control work undertaken on a day to day basis at the Reserve to restore populations of locally extinct and threatened native species to the arid zone. Tertiary training in competencies in Conservation and Land Management can also be undertaken on-site at the Reserve.
Teacher lesson aids and resources:
Arid Recovery is designing a range of teacher lesson aids and resources including pre and post visit information, lesson plans, project kits, and project outlines. Some may be downloaded directly from the website and some may attract a fee to cover the costs of materials and delivery. Teacher resources also include a detailed bibliography and recommended reading/reference list. For more info go to Lesson Aids
We welcome your ideas:
AR is continuously developing teacher resources and so teachers are encouraged to approach us with a request or an idea that we can develop or add to the Program, or for assistance with a project for their particular school or student group.
Special projects and on-going studies:
Student groups also have the opportunity to engage in on-going studies that can be directly linked into their school studies in environment and ecology via a real-life research project conducted at the Reserve. These studies are designed to be flexible to fit within individual schools programs and their capacity to visit the Reserve. They can be done on an on-going basis over a number of years involving different groups of students, or short term over an extended visit or with local schools.
These real-life research projects contribute vital data towards the restoration work of Arid Recovery. Projects such as soils, seed bank and vegetation, dynamics of insect populations, and track counts outside of the Reserve can be participated in by schools. Contact the Community Education Officer for more details.Click here to go to lesson aids and project opportunities.
RUN A FUNDRAISER & ADOPT A LITTLE OZZIE DIGGER.
Students have a very special opportunity to ‘Adopt a Little Ozzie Digger’ for as little as $12 per year. Students can choose to adopt an individual animal from one of four threatened mid sized mammal species reintroduced to the Reserve which has been trapped and processed during Annual Cage Trapping and tagged with an indentifying number.
To encourage students enterprise skills and community engagement, students could organise a special fundraiser focused on a threatened native species (we can assist with information for this) and use the funds raised to 'adopt' a Little Aussie Digger.
The students will receive an ‘Adoption Certificate’ together with details of their individual animal and they will receive news on its population at the Reserve on a quarterly basis. Go to our Sponsorship page to for more details on adoptions.
