ReWild Your School

Habitat Education Program

 

♣  Aligned to meet Year 5 & 6 Geography and Science curriculum

♣ Combines integrated science perspectives and STEM disciplines

The Jane Goodall Institute Australia (JGIA) is proud to launch the ReWild Your School (RYS) program created by a team of ecological and educational experts.

The program aims to address the urgent need to halt biodiversity decline, climate impacts and enhance mental well-being via a transformative environmental education program.

RYS provides your students with the tools, knowledge and confidence to apply pertinent environmental solutions in decision making. Now and in the future.

How does RYS work?

Students work through 10 “actions” (lessons) to apply purposeful, measurable and hands-on solutions to enhance habitat connectivity in your school area. Each of your classes will champion a different animal that can be found in your school’s surrounding as a case study for the program.

 

Each action is an individual lesson addressing a key inquiry question following the 5 E’s framework. Students follow the lesson sequence through content in their workbook. The lesson sequence builds a deep understanding of the needs and sustainbility of the champion animal.

 

This is done via strategic questions, research, habitat assessment, habitat creation, communication, and monitoring.

 

Your students will feel empowered as they create purposeful habitat via planting native species and hands-on habitat projects for your champion animal based on the available space of your school ground or other identified site.

What makes RYS different?

RYS has practical, replicable and transferable learning outcomes to foster the holistic understanding of how and why we must protect and enhance local biodiversity.

 

At the end of the program students will have:

 

⊕  the ability to use spacial mapping to plan sustainable land use

 

⊕  the ability to use practical, online and reference tools to identify the existence of local species

 

⊕  the ability to use key concepts to research the needs of specific local species

 

⊕  developed an understanding of critical and systems thinking

 

⊕  the ability to plan and provide habitat improvement for wider biodiversity

 

⊕  the abiilty to communicate the importance of sustainable ecosystems

 

⊕  an understanding of the value of wildlife and ecosystems services

 

⊕  developed teamwork and practical skills to promote a sustainable future

 

⊕  a sense of custodianship in improving our shared environment.

How is RYS delivered?

 

ReWild Your School can be delivered in two ways:

Via a 2 hour incursion workshop

or

 alternatively through a digital option.

 

Schools are also given the option to purchase plant packs that can be used to plant habitat for your champion animals in your school grounds or surrounding area.