Koala rangers

Science and Technology

Join us at Simmos Beach Reserve for a full-day outdoor learning adventure where students become Koala Rangers and explore one of Campbelltown’s most important koala habitats. Students will bushwalk through local eucalypt forest, investigate real signs of koala activity, learn about habitat health and using simple fieldwork equipment will discover the challenges facing this endangered species.

This immersive real-world excursion develops scientific inquiry skills, encourages advocacy and empowers young people to care for their local environment. Students will connect with nature, record field observations in a field journal, contribute to practical conservation actions and create powerful messages to help protect koalas in our community.

This program supports high potential and gifted students.

Maximum four classes per day.

Location

Essential information

Cost
Year Cost
2025/26
  • Department of Education Schools $22 per student
  • Non-government Schools $28 per student
Cancellation policy

Cancellation or major changes to bookings will incur the following cancellation fees:

  • within 30 days of excursion or incursion date - $600 administration fee charged
  • within 7 days of excursion/incursion date - total fee charged based on confirmed student numbers
Suggested timetable
Time Classes 1, 2, 3 and 4
9.30am Arrival - introduction, recess and toilets
10.00am - 11.30am River and bushland activities
11.30am - 12.00pm Picnic lunch and toilets
12.00pm - 1.30pm River and bushland activities
1.30pm - 2.00pm Snack, conclude and depart
Syllabus outcomes and content

Science and Technology K-6 Syllabus (2024)

Focus area outcomes

Knowledge of our world and beyond inspires sustainable solutions

  • ST3-SCI-01 uses evidence to explain how scientific knowledge can be used to develop sustainable practices
  • ST3-PQU-01 poses questions to identify variables and conducts fair tests to gather data

Content

Living things may change over millions of years, in response to their environments

  • Observe behavioural and structural adaptations of plants and animals, and suggest how these may help them survive in their environments
  • Examine and explain how the characteristics of flowers, fruit and seeds are adaptations for reproduction in plants
  • Interpret a food web that describes the flow of matter and energy between plants and animals in an ecosystem
  • Identify and describe how the loss or introduction of plants or animals affects an Australian ecosystem
  • Examine evidence that environments have changed over time and continue to change
  • Describe how Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander Peoples’ sustainable practices continue to protect the environment.

Science and Technology K-6 Syllabus © NSW Education Standards Authority (NESA) for and on behalf of the Crown in right of the State of New South Wales, 2024

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