Animals-Habitats

Animals and Habitats

Our team members are, 1. Jane Brayshaw (Laurimar Primary) 2. Lisa Stafford (Laurimar Primary) 3. Tim Murtagh (Coolaroo South Primary) 4. Ben Gallagher (Meredith Primary School) 5. Paul Todd (Kalinda Primary School)

Our project was based around connecting kids to their local habitats and wildlife. We hoped to build a sense of responsibility and ownership in the kids toward their local wildlife and the 'spaces' they need to share and protect on behalf of these creatures. We hoped that the children would see themselves as empowered to have an informed voice to offer ideas, understandings and opinions about environmental issues and human impacts on their local animals and habitats.

__Context__ The project involved 4 primary schools across Victoria. The teaching staff involved in the project ranged in experience and current roles performed within their own educational settings. The school contexts also brought with them internal structures, planning, processes and requirements that impacted on the the degree of flexibility and autonomy that team members had to be able to implement the project within their own context. The team members were required to innovate around these restrictions to be able to participate in the project. This meant that some schools projects remain ongoing; some schools projects were aside from the core curriculum focuses in their classrooms; or some projects were with a select group of students.

__The Driving Question__ How do we provide for the health of animals in our local communities?

__Our Elaborating Questions__

1. Who lives in our neighborhood? 2. How healthy is my 'square'? 3. What is the ideal home? 4. How is your local environment changing? 5. How are these changes affecting the local animals? 6. What can I do to share my neighborhood with the local wildlife?

Please see more of our planning at;

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Our Prezi for the culminating day.

http://prezi.com/lcz5rve3dnhh/plpconnectu-animals/

We shared the learning with other teams on the culminating day in two ways. Firstly we showcased the learning using work samples and access to the digital tools we had used during our journey. We also presented briefly to the PLPConnectu participants, each speaking about the journey within out own contexts and about our own professional learning over the course of the project.

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