Cumberland Plain Woodland

• ST2-4LW-S compares features and characteristics of living and non-living things
• ST2-1WS-S questions, plans and conducts scientific investigations, collects and summarises data and communicates using scientific representations

• What is the life cycle of flowering plants?
• How are environments and living things in the Cumberland Plain Woodland interdependent?

• GE3-1 decribes the diverse features and characteristics of places and environments
• GE3-2 explains interactions and connections between people, places and environments
• GE3-3 compares and contrasts influences on the management of places and environments
• GE3-4 acquires processes and communicates geographical information using geographical tools for enquiry

• What factors shape the Cumberland Plain Woodland?
• How do people influence the management of the Cumberland Plain Woodland?

What makes the Cumberland Plain Woodland a special place?

• Cumberland Plain Woodland plant community structure
   

Life cycle of flowering plants

• Life stages of a flowering plant

• Factors affecting life stages of flowering plants at the Cumberland Plain Woodland

• Seed Vault at the Australian Botanic Garden, Mount Annan
   

Habitat sweet habitat

• Habitats in the Cumberland Plain Woodland at the Australian Botanic Garden

• Wildlife and species interactions in the Cumberland Plain Woodland
   

Human interactions with the Cumberland Plain Woodland

• Cumberland Plain Woodland in the Sydney Basin Bioregion – profile (NSW Office of Environment & Heritage) - distribution of the Cumberland Plain Woodland, current threats and management plans

• Cow paddock to biggest Botanic garden – Podcast episode from the Royal Botanic Gardens ‘Branch Out’ series

• Management issues in the Cumberland Plain Woodland

• Scientific research on the Cumberland Plain Woodland at the Australian Botanic Garden
   

Support resources for activities

• ‘How to teach nature journaling’, John Muir Laws & Emilie Lygren