Schools Engagement
Schools Engagement Projects
Alive!
Alive! is an Environmental Youth Engagement Project that is unique to the Hawkesbury Region. It is an opportunity for young people aged 12-24 to engage with their local youth groups, schools, community and local businesses in taking action on local environmental issues in innovative ways. This project has been assisted by the NSW Government through its Environmental Trust. Download the information sheet about Alive! (PDF, 396.38 KB) (opens in a new window).
The Hawkesbury Environmental Network (HEN) is calling on young people to take action on environmental issues facing the community including water, energy, waste, climate change and land care issues. The event will be held at UWS Hawkesbury Campus on Tuesday 5th June. The top 10 projects will receive funding up to $1000 to go towards their project. This Alive! project has been assisted by the NSW Government through its Environmental Trust.
Find out more about the Alive! project and the schools and youth groups involved.
Youth Eco Summit
The inaugural Youth Eco Summit (opens in a new window) took place at the Newington Armoury in Sydney Olympic Park in October 2012. Over 6000 students from 180 primary and secondary schools took part in this initiative that brought together over 65 organisations to showcase and workshop environmental projects with students. This summit presented opportunities for young people to creatively express what 'sustainability' means for them.
The event included a series of live video conferences that were broadcast across New South Wales to more than 3500 students from rural and remote areas. A partnership agreement has been signed for 2012-14 with event numbers forecast to increase each year.
Western Sydney Environmental Education Group under the Department of Education and Communities collaborated with a number of other partners to partake in the Youth Eco Summit, such as UWS, Blacktown City Council and the Sydney Olympic Park Authority.
UWS Voices of the Future Series
This series allowed school children from Greater Western Sydney to have their say about the environment.
'Voices of the Future' is a collaboration between the Office of Western Sydney and UWS and features the artwork of children in Greater Western Sydney public schools. The children were asked to express their feelings about the environment through art.
Over 24 artworks were created and UWS has chosen a selection of these images that best represent our sustainability initiatives. For a full look at the artwork please visit our Voices of the Future webpage.
Artwork sourced from the Western Sydney Environment Calendar courtesy of the Office of Western Sydney.
Schools Engagement with Brewongle and HIE
As part of a schools engagement strategy with the Hawkesbury Institute for the Environment at UWS, Brewongle Environment
Education Centre are co-developing a program to engage students in the climate change research facilities at the campus. We have created engaging short videos that students will watch before attending a day field trip to the research sites.
Students will partake in hands on experiments and data analysis as part of a field trip to the EucFACE, rainout shelters and whole tree chamber experiments. Students will be encouraged to document their learning using our ‘go pro’ cameras and worksheets. Our plan is to have these students link their learning to a global audience via the E-pals network.
Western Sydney High Schools Senior Science Academic Enrichment
The Universities environmental science academic and technical team are working in partnership with Longneck Lagoon and Brewongle Environmental Education Centres (EEC) to further develop and deliver terrestrial and aquatic ecology based education programs to senior high school students. Find out more of the School of Natural Science project.
Environmental Education Centres for Schools
UWS has collaborated with the Longneck Lagoon and Brewongle Environmental Education Centres to develop engaging academic enrichment programs for school students. Read more on Environmental Education Centre for Schools (PDF, 4511.92 KB) (opens in a new window).
