Bunyaville Environmental Education Centre

Where is the Bunyaville Environmental Education Centre?

The Bunyaville Environmental Education Centre (BEEC) is situated in the dry forest of Bunyaville Forest Park, off Old Northern Road, Everton Hills, 15 km north-west of the Brisbane GPO.

The environment around the BEEC includes dry sclerophyll forest, dry vine rainforest and freshwater ponds along seasonally flowing creeks.

What does the Bunyaville Environmental Education Centre provide?

BEEC offers programs that are curriculum-based and cover a wide range of topics and themes that relate to the Key Learning Areas in particular Science, English, Mathematics, Health and Physical Education and Studies of Society and the Environment (SOSE) and the Arts.

Groups who use the Environmental Education Centre include preschool to university students as well as community groups. Programs for the preschool and year one levels are half-day, whilst all other programs are full-day visits. The types of activities conducted on each visit are determined by the visiting teacher's current curriculum focus. Programs vary from freshwater pond ecosystem, tree identification and catchment studies to story thread language, SOSE-based and earth education type programs. Some of the thematic programs include:

• The Easter Bilby Adventure,
• Bush Pre-School Adventure,
• Bush Senses,
• Possum Bangles Bush Gathering,
• Spaceship Earth,
• Cockatoo Island and the Parliament of Birds,
• Corymbia Quest,
• Cabbage Tree Creek Catchment Connections and
• Mountains to Mangroves Wildlife Corridor Investigation.

Further information and contact details

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