Analysing the Evidence: Impacts on urban wildlife

Our urban environments are constantly undergoing change with implications for wild life.

In this workshop students take on the role of an ecologist and explore some of the changes brought about as the landscape becomes fragmented and modified.

Student experience

Students will investigate:

• How the physical landscape has changed over time
• The impacts these changes can have on local wildlife
• Three case studies to reveal how some species might benefit while others miss out.
• Real world actions and solutions to help redress some of these changes.

Program Feedback

"Excellent. The kids loved the hands on nature of the activity, and the presenter engaged with the kids really effectively."

"The ‘analysing skills’ is the hardest thing to get across, which is what this program did very well. The stories being told are local and relate to the curriculum."

Curriculum links 

This program links to the following strands of the Western Australian Curriculum:

Year 5 

• Biological sciences: Living things have structural features and adaptations that enable their survival in their environment (WA5SSUB1)
• Science inquiry
  • Questioning and predicting: Pose testable questions that include variables to be measured and changed, and apply science knowledge to make predictions (WA5SSIQ1)
  • Collaborating and applying: Use science knowledge to develop considered responses to problems, at a local and global level, through investigation and research (WA5SSICL1)

Year 6 

• Biological sciences: The growth and survival of living things are affected by the changing conditions in their environment and the influence of human activities (WA6SSUB1)
• Science inquiry
  • Questioning and predicting: Pose testable questions that include variables to be measured and changed, and apply science knowledge to make predictions (WA6SSIQ1)
  • Collaborating and applying: Use science knowledge to develop considered responses to problems, at a local and global level, through investigation and research (WA6SSICL1)

Year 7 

• Biological sciences: Food chains and food webs can be used to represent energy flow in ecosystems and predict possible impacts of human activity (WA7SSUB2)
• Science inquiry
  • Questioning and predicting: Propose investigable questions and make predictions based on scientific knowledge to explore scientific models, identify patterns and test relationships (WA7SSIQ1)
  • Collaborating and applying: Illustrate how science understanding and skills have influenced the development of individual, community and workplace practices (WA7SSICL2)

All facilitated workshops are led by the Museum’s experienced Learning and Engagement team and have been curated using the Museum’s unique resources to provide a deeper learning experience in our specialist subject areas.

Your booking for a facilitated workshop will include all materials and activities for the duration of the program with no prior preparation required.

As part of all facilitated workshop bookings, you are welcome to explore the rest of the Museum free of charge pre or post workshop and do not need to make any additional bookings to do so.  WA Museum Boola Bardip is open daily from 9.30am to 5pm, with last entry at 4pm.