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Victoria's Biodiversity - Resources for teachers
Victoria's biodiversity - our wealth of native plants and animals living in a wide diversity of environments ranging from marine and coastal to wetland, grassland, forest, alpine and Mallee ecosystems - provides interesting and interactive classroom, research and fieldwork possibilities. These resources for teachers relate to Victoria’s Biodiversity Strategy.
Curriculum applicability
These student activities are adapted from an education resource book published by the Department of Natural Resources and Environment in 1999. Designed to cover CSF 2 Key Learning Areas for Science and SOSE, the activities are easily adapted for the Victorian Essential Learning Standards (VELS).
Resource 1 student activities relate to VELS Levels 3 and 4.
Resource 2 student activities relate to VELS Levels 5 and 6.
Contents
The student activities investigate Victoria’s plants and animals, the different ecosystems they live in, the intriguing connections between them and the inspiring efforts underway to help conserve these natural wonders for the future. Challenging case studies of Victorian threatened species involve students in the complexity of conservation and management issues.
Using these resources
Some of these student activities require use of images and info about Victoria's ecosystems, maps that describe Victoria's vegetation cover past and present, and information about biodiversity elsewhere on DSE's site. Links are provided within the activities (e.g. Materials list: Teacher Reference).
Victoria's Biodiversity: Ecosystem images & information
Describes Victoria’s natural (terrestrial and marine) and human-created ecosystems in words and full colour A4 images. Some of the student activities relate to these images.
Victoria's Biodiversity Resource 2 - Student activities (VELS Level 5 and 6)
Introduction
[PDF File - 673.1 KB]
Image acknowledgements
Image Acknowledgements
[MS Word Document - 36.0 KB]
Please note: There are copyright issues associated with these images presented on this webpage.
- Curriculum applicability
- Contents
- Using these resources
- Victoria's Biodiversity: Ecosystems images & information
- Vegetation maps
- Student activities
- Image acknowledgements
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These student activities are adapted from an education resource book published by the Department of Natural Resources and Environment in 1999. Designed to cover CSF 2 Key Learning Areas for Science and SOSE, the activities are easily adapted for the Victorian Essential Learning Standards (VELS).
Resource 1 student activities relate to VELS Levels 3 and 4.
Resource 2 student activities relate to VELS Levels 5 and 6.
Contents
The student activities investigate Victoria’s plants and animals, the different ecosystems they live in, the intriguing connections between them and the inspiring efforts underway to help conserve these natural wonders for the future. Challenging case studies of Victorian threatened species involve students in the complexity of conservation and management issues.
Using these resources
Some of these student activities require use of images and info about Victoria's ecosystems, maps that describe Victoria's vegetation cover past and present, and information about biodiversity elsewhere on DSE's site. Links are provided within the activities (e.g. Materials list: Teacher Reference).
Victoria's Biodiversity: Ecosystem images & information
Describes Victoria’s natural (terrestrial and marine) and human-created ecosystems in words and full colour A4 images. Some of the student activities relate to these images.
| Human-created Ecosystems | Information | Images |
| Living Areas | Info for Living Areas | Living Areas
[Image - 1.0 MB] |
| Agricultural Areas | Info for Agricultural Areas | Agricultural Areas
[Image - 885.1 KB] |
Maps: Victoria's natural vegetation cover past and present
These maps show the diversity of vegetation types and very clearly demonstrate the change that has occurred in vegetation cover between pre 1750 and now.
Simplified Native Vegetation groups - extant
[PDF File - 1.4 MB]
Simplified Native Vegetation groups - pre 1750
[PDF File - 1.6 MB]
Victoria's Biodiversity Resource 1 - Student activities (VELS Level 3 and 4)
Introduction
[PDF File - 673.1 KB]
Victoria's Biodiversity Resource 2 - Student activities (VELS Level 5 and 6)
Introduction
[PDF File - 673.1 KB]
Image acknowledgements
Image Acknowledgements
[MS Word Document - 36.0 KB]Please note: There are copyright issues associated with these images presented on this webpage.
Please note: Document(s) on this page are presented in PDF format. If you do not have the Adobe Reader, you can download a copy free from the Adobe web site.