Bournda Environmental Education Centre

Student wellbeing comes naturally at Bournda!

Bournda EEC is operated by the Department of Education and is located in Bournda National Park on the Far South Coast of NSW; an ideal setting for the delivery of environmental education programs.

The staff at Bournda EEC assist teachers to plan and conduct field trips for students from Kindergarten – Year 12, which are designed to specifically target KLA outcomes.

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NSW Department of Education Covid -19 Information Hub

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Learning from home Hub on the Department’s website provides information & resources for teachers and parents to support students learning from home P -12.

Resource: Multi-Touch Books

Download these free multi-touch iBooks from the iBooks Store onto your iPhone, iPad or Mac. Exploring and Mapping our Living World and Saving our Shorebirds have been created by Bournda EEC to help students explore the natural world around them, inspiring curiosity and a sense of wonder for all living things. The books are designed for primary students and are full of interactive diagrams, photos and videos. Find out about our local endangered shorebirds and how we can all help them to survive. Discover why biodiversity is so important and how teachers and students can play their role as citizen scientists mapping biodiversity in the schoolyard.

What’s been happening?

Students from five local schools have been working with Bournda Environmental Education Centre on a Bega Valley Shire Council funded program called ‘Let’s get it Sorted’. The program helps students to re-think what they call ‘waste’ and empowers them to be the change makers at their school. The aim of the program is to reduce the amount of waste that schools send to landfill and to help educate school communities about the issues surrounding waste and its management. Click here to find out more about this program and here to register your interest for 2020 / 2021.

A forest’s bushfire recovery

Life in a Southern Forest https://southernforestlife.net/ is an extraordinary resource for any teachers that are looking to explore the recovery of our forests after the recent bushfires. Follow biologists Kerri-Lee and Paul as they report on observations, sightings and discoveries on their 5 ha property at Wonboyn, both before and after the January 5 fires. The photographs and detailed reporting are an extremely valuable resource and their work is an inspiration to follow.

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Finding activities kids can work on at home without any help from 'working from home' parents is a bonus. Riverina EEC shared a great resource 'Outdoor Learning Pathways' that inspired me to create an Outdoor Learning Journal for my own kids. I'm adding extra activities they can work on independently. A Google site by Georges River Environmental Education Centre has some great inspiring videos about creating Nature Journals sites.google.com/education.nsw.gov.au/naturejournaling/to-keep-you-going?authuser=0 For more ideas Gibberagong Environmental Education Centre have shared some nature journal lessons sites.google.com/education.nsw.gov.au/lessons-in-nature/nature-journal-living-things-es1-s3?authu...
The kids are loving working in their journals, they are enjoying being outside, and it really is quiet in my home office 🙂
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Some great resources here for our schools and Bournda EEC will soon be adding some new ones. 😀🌏

Eden Public School Towamba Public School Wyndham Public School Pambula Public School Merimbula Public School Wolumla Public School Candelo Public School Bemboka Public School Bega Valley Public School Quaama Public School Cobargo Public School Tathra Public School Tanja Public School Bermagui Public School Central Tilba Public School Narooma Public School

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Please find a range of resources on this site to support teaching and learning from home. The resources were developed by Department of Education teachers from 25 Environmental and Zoo Education Centres in NSW. Some resources are designed for teachers, others are designed for student use. The types....

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DARK TIMES

1919 Influenza epidemic

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ONLINE STEM LEARNING

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Online STEM learning

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With thousands of Australian students learning online and teachers delivering distance education, educational providers are offering a huge range of online learning materials. From hands on science...

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GET SOME FUN SCIENCE LEARNING IDEAS at the
CSIRO Double Helix Online Learning Resources Page

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Some mathematics fun from CSIRO Double Helix!

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Maths fun you can have at home - Double Helix

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Across Australia and around the world, lots of kids are staying home. Here are a whole bunch of fun maths activities to keep you busy!

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5 days ago

SITTING AT THE COMPUTER TOO LONG?

Time to get up and shake your abdomen!

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Peacock Spider Dances to YMCA

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Original Video by Jurgen Otto: youtu.be/d_yYC5r8xMI Edited by Dario Trovato www.dariotrovato.com

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6 days ago

CONNECT WITH YOUR BEAUTIFUL WORLD

National Parks Association of NSW Walks Coordinator Matt McLelland has put together images and text contributed by members into this stunning little video.

Get your child to take a photo and email it and some explanatory text to bournda-e.school@det.nsw.edu.au and we’ll try and put something similar together and forward it to NPA. You can also DM our facebook page.

Remember that you have to follow social distancing laws and keep it very local, like in the backyard, if you can.

Last week’s NPA theme was close ups and this week is VIBRANT COLOURS. Try for interesting angles and something that really catches the eye.

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7 days ago

Just recognising here that Cafe Evolve do a great job with sustainable packaging for take away that can be reused, recycled, composted...

Sustainable practices make a difference!

Thanks Peter Haggar Anna Leamon and crew

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7 days ago

Getting active in the backyard 🙂
Setting up an obstacle course in the backyard was kind of fun and stressful at the same time (few too many cooks...) but it certainly did get us all outside and active - which is a great thing! The kids ran time trials and then worked out their fastest time and the difference between their fastest and slowest time. Rather than competing with each other, they tried to better their own time each time. Some cheating went on and then they rewarded themselves with chocolate - so not sure it was all good!! But, we will leave the course up for a bit and add it as daily fitness fun for the next little while.

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Student wellbeing comes naturally at Bournda!

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What’s been happening?

A forest’s bushfire recovery

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