Learnscapes

Learnscapes are places where a learning program has been designed to permit users to interact with an environment. Learnscapes may be natural or built, interior or exterior. They may be in schools, near schools or beyond schools and may relate to any one or many Key Learning Areas.

Learnscapes need to be safe and accessible. They may have some physical features that facilitate learning and have links with the curriculum.

The Learnscapes ideal has been incorporated into the initial grounds improvement plans, it is seen as being important, when planning for alterations to the school grounds that the grounds committee continually consult back to these initial plans.

Units of work from the 'Hands on Learnscapes Program' have been incorporated into Key Learning Areas for all stages.

The units are linked to the English Key Learning Area because of their strong emphasis on language content, understandings and skills. They all include an Environmental Education perspective and may be integrated into other key learning Areas as appropriate.

Stage 1
Environmental Diversity - Observe and respond to the diversity of the built and natural environment in the school.

Stage 2
Environmental Interactions - Investigating interactions between people and their environment.

Stage 3
Environmental Change - Discover the changes that occur in your school environment over space and time.