Zero litter challenge
HSIE geography
Join the #zerolitter challenge!
We all have a responsibility to care for our environment and reducing our waste is an easy place to start. In this full day incursion students will be inspired to join the zero litter challenge.
Students will meet Baggy and Jelly-Boy, characters from stories that invite students to explore the impact of litter in our oceans through story, empathy, creativity, and action. They will play high-energy land to sea litter relay games and use materials collected from the playground to investigate how material travels across land to enter our waterways and to the ocean. Then meet a live yabby to build connections with aquatic animals and their need for clean water.
Students will be provided iPads to create a multimodal text to raise awareness on the issue of plastic pollution. They will create their own Jelly-Boy character from recycled food packaging, photograph scenes around the playground and use apps to produce short multimodal stories combining text, images and creativity.
Connect with our Zero litter in the Georges River project and engage in active citizenship.
Maximum two classes per day.
Location
Your school.
Essential information
| Year | Cost |
| 2025/26 |
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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
| Sessions | Classes 1 and 2 |
| Morning session | Stories, games and playground exploration |
| Middle session | Creating a narrative on iPad |
| Afternoon session | Final edits and display |
English K-10 Syllabus (2022)
Focus area outcome
Oral language and communication
- EN1-OLC-01 communicates effectively by using interpersonal conventions and language to extend and elaborate ideas for social and learning interactions
Content group
Listening for understanding
Focus area outcome
Vocabulary
- EN1-VOCAB-01 understands and effectively uses Tier 1, taught Tier 2 and Tier 3 vocabulary to extend and elaborate ideas
Content group
Learning and using words
Focus area outcome
Creating written texts
- EN1-CWT-01 plans, creates and revises texts written for different purposes, including paragraphs, using knowledge of vocabulary, text features and sentence structure
Content group
Text features
Sentence-level grammar
Focus area outcome
Understanding and responding to literature
- EN1-UARL-01 understands and responds to literature by creating texts using similar structures, intentional language choices and features appropriate to audience and purpose
Content group
Narrative
Character
Imagery, symbol and connotation
Perspective and argument
English K–10 Syllabus © NSW Education Standards Authority (NESA) for and on behalf of the Crown in right of the State of New South Wales, 2022
Human Society and its Environment K–6 Syllabus (2024)
Focus area outcome
People are connected to places and groups
- HS1-GEO-01 describes ways people connect to and care for places, water environments and each other, using geographical information
Content groups
People care for Australia's water environments
- Observe and describe natural and human features of Australian rivers, lakes, beaches and oceans by collecting and representing data
- Compare the ways people use water environments in Australia by posing questions to collect data
- Explain how people can use and care for water responsibly
- Identify ways that Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples value water Country and Place
People engage in active citizenship by working together to care for places and each other
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Participate in the school or local community by caring for places and others
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Explain the benefits of participating in communities
Human Society and its Environment 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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