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Chatswood Hills State School

Environmental Education

Environmental education is for now and for the future. It is not a subject but an integrated, multi-disciplinary approach to learning. At Chatswood Hills, children and teachers capitalise on the school grounds and local issues for learning the key curriculum areas as well as the knowledge, skills, attitudes and values for developing "stewardship of the earth".

In particular, the school grounds are an all-important focus where, as outdoor classrooms, they provide ideas, resources and inspiration for the day-to-day learning and teaching events.

Many of the schools special gardens are used as outdoor classrooms for teaching across the curriculum areas. The special learnscapes which have been developed are:
  • Colour and Scent garden
  • Line and Texture garden
  • Shape garden
  • Rainforest garden
  • Habitat garden
  • Aboriginal Food/Use garden
  • Growing garden (Shadehouse) and
  • Koala Corridor
An ecotourism brochure and video are available for visitors to view the very special environmental characteristics of our school. "Learnscapes Alive" (the Chatswood Hills State School Environmental Education Program written by staff in consultation with outside consultants) is the teaching resource which supports this.
 
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