SAVE OUR PARK
A unit by Amy Williamson
Our Environment is full of natural, constructed and manged features. Let's explore the different features and retrieve some information that can help us design our object!
The Environment
Road Trip!
You are about to go on and exciting trip and explore our park that we are going to build our objects for!
Throughout this trip you will look at different natural, managed and constructed features of the area, draw pictures and write discriptions of them.
Make sure your dective hats are on and you are starting to think about what part of this environment you would like to design the object for.
You will take photos that can be taken back into the classroom and used throughout your design.
Your teacher will laos upload these photos to your class blog!
Features
Natural Features
Natural features are features such as landforms and vegetation. This includes the earth's soil, water, air, sunlight and all living things. These are often referred to as the natural environment.
Managed Features
Managed features include those human-altered landscapes dominated by elements of the natural environment. Examples include crop and grazing lands, planted gardens, maintained sporting fields
Constructed Features
Features of constructed environments include buildings and transport infrastructure (e.g. roads, railways and airports). Constructed environments are sometimes referred to as 'built' environments.
