Wetlands Environmental Education Centre in Shortland | School

Wetlands Environmental Education Centre

Locality: Shortland

Phone: +61 2 4955 8673

Address: 412 Sandgate Rd, 2307 Shortland, NSW, Australia

Website: http://www.wetlands-e.schools.nsw.edu.au

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23.01.2022 Our second visit from Hillsborough PS for the week were Stage 2 excellent Eco Explorers! They found so many sustainable things anyone can do and are great at conducting experiments. Ask them where to put your solar panels or how to design a cool house. #EZECNSW #LoveWhereYouLearn #NSWEducation

23.01.2022 #MathsTrainsBrains

20.01.2022 How lovely to see all the busy families today at the Wetlands

15.01.2022 Return to regular fieldwork for Term 3! Yippee! Delivering virtual lessons in lieu of our regular fieldwork programs was fun but we are back in the field and your students can join us! "Activities allowed from Monday 15 June 2020.... Day field trips to outdoor locations with no physical distancing requirements (e.g. DoE Environmental Education Centres)" Return to full-time face-to-face learning guidelines. DoE 11 June 2020 Please contact us by phone or e-mail for further information or to book a hands-on, out in nature, fieldwork excursion to support your teaching program. 49558673 or [email protected] #EZECNSW

10.01.2022 We often have a whole small school visit us for an excursion in one day but Hillsborough Public School brought the whole school over three days. First visit of the week at Wetlands Environmental Education Centre was Early Stage 1 and Stage 1 students on a People and Places Geography and Science adventure. What keen scientist with great questions and beautiful manners. Is the pond healthy? #EZECNSW... #NSWEducation #LoveWhereYouLearn See more

09.01.2022 Happy World Teachers Day! We meet and work with the most amazing, dedicated teachers at the Environmental Education Centres. A big congratulations to Millfield Public School for winning our prize draw for a free excursion as a result of completing our school planning survey. We can't wait to have a fantastic, hands-on excursion with you.... #millfieldpublicschool #LoveWhereYouLearn #EZECNSW #nsweducation Photo of the prize draw.

08.01.2022 Bugs Alive! Excursions are GO for schools at Environmental Education Centres!

07.01.2022 Stockton Beach Geography virtual excursion today with Karabar High School looking at Coastal change and management. We are looking forward to our students returning for face to face learning next week. Call to book an excursion on 4955 8673 #EZECNSW

06.01.2022 Great incursion today at Hamilton North PS to launch their Callaghan Sustainable Schools Project. Looking forward to the project they intend to put in place to make their school more sustainable. #EZECNSW

05.01.2022 Happy wattle day! Celebrate our national floral emblem. Put a sprig of wattle in a bottle and learn a little song. http://www.wattleday.asn.au/for-schools/songs/

04.01.2022 The Aussie Backyard Bird Count starts tomorrow! To get you primed and ready for your first count in the morning, we thought we would share our handy visual gui...de. We just love how Chief Counter @davidpocock summed it up in a few easy steps: "Download the app. Sit outside for 20 minutes. Log what birds you see. Don't know what bird it is? There's a Field Guide/Bird Finder in the app!" Then hit submit. DONE! Of course you can submit your sightings on our website too. And a heads up! We are launching LIVE on Monday with our Aussie Backyard Bird Count Broadcast - live on Facebook and YouTube! *We'll post the live video link to the Facebook event page when we kick off on Monday, so keep your eyes peeled for that* Run time by timezone: 12pm 2pm AEDT (NSW/ACT/VIC/TAS) 11:30am 1:30pm ACDT (SA) 11am 1pm AEST (QLD) 10:30am 12:30pm ACST (NT) 9am 11am AWST (WA) *Don't worry if you miss the livestream - we'll be putting the video online for you to catch up later* Register now! Head to our website - link in the comments #AussieBirdCount #BirdLifeOz #UrbanBirds #BirdsinBackyards #Birdata #CitizenScience #CitSciOz #cuppawiththebirds #birdingathome See more

02.01.2022 Lucky last! The teachers and staff from Wetlands Environmental Education Centre had a fabulous day with Hillsborough PS Stage 3 at Pelican Foreshore yesterday conducting a Grime Scene Investigating (GSI). Students performed experiments to understand the natural and human impacts of the area and searched for evidence of micro plastics and grime in the water. The results were excellent. What a beautiful place for an excursion! #LoveWhereYouLearn #EZECNSW #NSWEducation

02.01.2022 National Threatened Species Day is commemorated today to raise awareness of plants and animals at risk of extinction. Threatened Species Tetratheca juncea or Black-eyed susan ... Low shrub that grows as a single stem or clumps of stems. Stems can grow up to 1.5 m long, are generally leafless and have a distinctly angular, winged structure. Plants are usually sprawling and can be difficult to detect amongst other vegetation when not flowering. Hanging flowers, with the dark centre give rise to the common name. The flowers face downwards and usually have four petals that range from white to pink to dark purple in colour. The flowers occur singly or in pairs along the stem suspended on a short peduncle (stalk). Flowering generally occurs between July and January. So now is a great time to see them. Grows in sandy, occasionally swampy heath and in dry sclerophyll forest; chiefly in coastal districts from Bulahdelah to Lake Macquarie, also recorded from Port Jackson to Botany Bay from which it is possibly extinct. Impacts on Tetratheca juncea have been known to result from industrial and residential developments, coal mining operations, pipelines, roads, power stations and the associated infrastructure of such developments, agriculture and land clearing. Check them out on an excursion with our EEC! #ThreatenedSpeciesDay #EZECNSW #NSWEducation

01.01.2022 This World Environment Day, 5th of June, it’s Time for Nature and celebrates its 20th anniversary. World Environment Day reminds us to take action to conserve and protect our natural environment. This year we have found a great competition your students might like to be involved in to celebrate World Environment Day and learn about shorebirds. There are prizes and great teaching resources. Shorebirds Competition 2020 | ANSTO, https://www.ansto.gov.au//comp/shorebirds-competition-2020

01.01.2022 Such a great, easy citizen science project to be involved in this Frog Id Week.