Our aim is to encourage and support teachers to use the river environment as an outdoor classroom. The educational possibilities are endless and reach much further than just science or environmental education.
Research has shown the benefits of outdoor learning on student mental wellbeing as well as academic performance. Our environment provides the perfect landscape for students to learn outdoors, inspiring their motivation to learn, enabling thinking outside of the box and vastly increasing the opportunity for creative thinking.
RiverConnect can provide the educational resources and support you need to take your class outdoors.
Some examples include:
- Opportunities for hands-on environmental projects
- Including revegetation, weed management, litter collection, nest box building and monitoring, surveys of flora and fauna, and camera trapping
- Individual project development and implementation for VCE Vocational Major (previously VCAL)
- Multi-activity and/or cluster activity days
- Assistance with presenters to lead sessions along the river
- Assistance with outdoor lesson planning
- Provision of curriculum resources and activities
- Providing activities for school volunteering programs
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I’m interested in opportunities for my Kinder, School, Tertiary or Alternative Education Facility [drop down form – input name, job title, email, education facility name, age range of students, message Box – send email riverconnect@shepparton.vic.gov.au]
Curriculum resources and activities
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- Kinder and Early Learning
- Primary School (Prep-Grade 2)
- Primary School (Grade 3-6)
- Secondary School (Year 7-9)
- Secondary School (Year 10-12)
- Hands-on and Project-based
[resources saved within each topic need to have an image icon and title – the image will contain a snip of the activity enclosed – like https://www.riverdetectives.net.au/resource-river-bank/]
Useful websites and links
- Cool Australia
- Zoo’s Victoria
- Australian Association for Environmental Education (AAEE)
- Environment Education Victoria
- Resource Smart Schools