Teacher comments
"Great content, just enough and very well pitched to year three students. They could all take away something from the activity." (April 2024)
"Students thoroughly enjoyed preparing food for the animals." (August 2021)
Conservation Calculators
How do measuring and weighing feature in our conservation work? Your students will find out!
Cost:
$8.00 per child
Duration:
60 minutes
Availability:
Monday to Friday
Year Levels:
Year 3
WA Curriculum Links:
Mathematics:
ACMMG061
Science:
WA3SSUB1, WA3SSIQ1, WA3SSIPL2
Sustainability:
OI.2, OI.3, OI.4, OI.5, OI.6, OI.7, OI.8, OI.9
How do measuring and weighing feature in our conservation work? Your students will find out!
How much does a quenda weigh? And why do we need to know?
Your class will explore these and other important questions as they become 'environmental officers' in Woodland Reserve, Whiteman Park's conservation and endangered animal breeding facility. Using their measuring and weighing skills, your students will see how we use maths at Whiteman Park to look after our quenda and Critically Endangered woylie populations as part of a real-life conservation program.
In this program, your Year 3 students will:
✔ Practise measuring in centimetres and weighing in grams.
✔ Apply practical maths skills in an outdoor setting.
✔ Learn about some local native animals.
✔ Understand how and why rangers look after our animals and bushland.
This program is delivered outdoors in Whiteman Park's fauna conservation breeding facility, Woodland Reserve.
Teacher comments
Whiteman Park acknowledges the Wadjuk Noongar people as the Traditional Custodians of the land on which we work, learn and play and acknowledge the significance of Korndiny Karla Boodja (Bennett Brook) at the heart of the Park.