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Secondary school education

Secondary school is the perfect time for your students to expand their understanding about the environment and their place in it.

On this page you'll find some of the curriculum-based activities and excursions available to secondary students (Years 7 to 12). We can also arrange tailor-made workshops or activities to suit specific subjects in the syllabuses.

Get in touch with us to arrange an excursion or another fun educational program.

Sustainability education programs

Marine debris working group and beach clean-ups

This program links to the NSW curriculum syllabuses:

Students will learn:

  • how to do marine debris clean-ups using the Australian Marine Debris Database (AMDI)
  • why it’s so important to record the debris they collect
  • how we can work together to prevent the debris from entering the marine environment.

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Batemans Marine Park

This program links to the NSW curriculum syllabuses:

Students will learn:

  • about the marine park’s zones and its benefits
  • about the variety of marine species living in the local area
  • how to identify, describe and evaluate interdependent relationships between living things and the environment within the marine park’s ecosystems.

Endangered ecological communities

This program links to the NSW curriculum syllabuses:

Students will learn:

  • the importance of local vegetation communities such as dune systems, wetlands, littoral rainforests, and bangalay sand forests
  • how to mitigate threats and contribute to the conservation of these communities.

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Protected and endangered species

This program links to the NSW curriculum syllabuses:

Students will learn about:

  • our native species, like the flying-fox, and how we can help to protect them in their natural habitat
  • the programs that protect these native species such as responsible cat ownership.

We can:

  • deliver this program as a school excursion, educational visit to your school or as a teaching resource
  • organise school excursions to our flying-fox camps when flying-foxes are visiting the area.

Native plantings

This program links to the NSW curriculum syllabuses:

Students will learn about:

  • plants native to our local area
  • how plants help reduce emissions and create habitat for local fauna
  • how to create more shade at their school.

Council will:

  • provide plants that students can plant in their school grounds or at a nearby reserve
  • align this program with National Tree Day, Native Species Day, or another program of your choice, if required.

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Dam to tap tour

This program links to the NSW curriculum syllabuses:

Students will learn first-hand:

  • about the processes and stages involved in the treatment of Eurobodalla’s water supply. This includes:
    • from the start of treatment at the Northern Water Filtration Plant
    • treatment of Eurobodalla’s liquid waste at the Moruya Sewage Treatment Plant.

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Water audits and efficiency challenges

This program links to the NSW curriculum syllabuses:

Students will learn how:

  • to evaluate the efficiency of their water usage at home in the kitchen, bathroom, and laundry
  • much water they can save by using more water-efficient devices
  • to use water bug survey kits to identify different water bugs - a measure of our waterway health.

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Setting up a compost at school

This program links to the NSW curriculum syllabuses:

Students will learn:

  • about compost and how it works
  • what critters they’ll find inside compost that play an important role in our environment
  • how to set up a compost at their school.

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Introducing co-mingled recycling at your school

This program links to the NSW curriculum syllabuses:

Students will:

  • help introduce yellow recycling bins and collection services to their school
  • participate in hands-on activities designed to improve their knowledge about correct recycling practices.

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Smart Textile Saver Program

This program links to the NSW curriculum syllabuses:

Students will learn about:

  • textile waste
  • the social and environmental impacts textile waste can create
  • Council’s new Smart Textile Saver Program.

How to return and earn

This program links to the NSW curriculum syllabuses:

Students will:

  • learn how to reduce litter and encourage recycling
  • help design and implement a return and earn scheme at their school.

The crossing experience

Students who are passionate about the environment will have an opportunity to immerse themselves in a series of sustainable activities.

This program links to the NSW curriculum syllabuses:

This program is:

  • set in a purpose-built facility at Bermagui
  • limited to 20 students across five local schools
  • a precursor to the 'Young legends experience' program.

Young legends experience

  • This program is a follow-on from ‘The crossing experience’ program.
  • Year 10 to 11 students are selected for a talented and mindful residential experience at a purpose-built facility in Bermagui.
  • The program will help your students to return to their school community as leaders in environmental causes.

This program links to the NSW curriculum syllabuses:

Contact us

Contact our sustainability education officers for more detailed information about our education programs: