Where is the Pullenvale Environmental Education Centre?

The Pullenvale Environmental Education Centre (PEEC) is situated in a semirural residential area in Brisbane, off Moggill Road, Pullenvale, approx. 20 km west of the Brisbane GPO. PEEC is close to the Moggill State Forest (dry sclerophyll) and many of PEEC's programs include a visit to this forest as part of the excursion experience.

What does the Pullenvale Environmental Education Centre provide?

The Pullenvale Environmental Education Centre offers a range of environmental education programs for students from preschool to Year 10. PEEC uses story, drama and the arts to explore environmental issues and ideas. Original literature accompanies some of our programs with characters coming to life through a range of drama strategies including the 'I Wonder...' technique.

All PEEC 's programs are embedded in the Pullenvale Storythread Approach. Each PEEC Storythread unfolds over a three-or-four chapter framework with Chapters One, Three and Four taking place at school and Chapter Two being the excursion experience.

Storythread is a way of teaching environmental education that uses environmental narrative, environmental analysis, activity-based learning and multiliteracies to interact with the 'world '. It takes students through four key inquiry steps:

Deep thinking about the world;
Connecting to real contexts in the world;
Communicating through multiliteracy media with the world;
Responding as active citizens for the world.

( 'world ' means the personal, social, and natural environments)

Further information and contact details

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