About this publication
Teachers' kit - Biodiversity for kids
April 2003
This teacher's kit includes:
- comprehensive unit of work (10 lesson plans, outcomes and indicators, teacher's notes, student fact sheets)
- student work sheets
- colour cartoon poster 'biodiversity school'
- nine colour photographic posters of ecosystems in NSW
- one video 'web of life for kids' (Biodiversity)
Biodiversity for kids is a hands-on Science and Technology unit that is designed to help you teach about biodiversity in your local environment. Students will learn about biodiversity, animal and plant habitats, ecosystems, food chains and webs and biodiversity surveys.
One highlight of the unit is a plant and animal survey of the school grounds. The results of the survey and the students' proposed 'action plan' will become useful information for your School Environmental Management Plan (SEMP), contributing to achieving the objectives of the NSW Environmental Education Policy for Schools. This unit complements the 'Mini-worlds' unit from the Science and Technology syllabus.
The teacher's kit was developed by the NPWS in collaboration with the NSW Department of Education and Training. It was funded under the NSW Biodiversity Strategy.
Documents to download
This plan of management is available in two versions.
If you have a broadband internet connection, you may wish to download the complete 1.9MB file:
- 'Biodiversity for kids' teacher's guide book (PDF - 1.9MB)
If you have a dial-up internet connection, you can download sections of the plan below.
- 'Biodiversity for kids' teacher's guide book (Part 1 - Preliminaries, Lesson Plans) (PDF - 487KB)
- 'Biodiversity for kids' teacher's guide book (Part 2 - Work Sheets) (PDF - 1.2MB)
- 'Biodiversity for kids' teacher's guide book (Part 3 - Fact Sheets, Teacher's Notes) (PDF - 385KB)
Buy this teacher's kit
- Buy the full teacher's kit online, at the NSW Government's online bookshop.
- Download an order form (PDF - 75KB)