{"id":4719,"date":"2020-03-24T03:16:54","date_gmt":"2020-03-24T03:16:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/serviam\/?post_type=article&#038;p=4719"},"modified":"2020-03-26T23:28:59","modified_gmt":"2020-03-26T23:28:59","slug":"year-9-explore-minnamurra-rainforest","status":"publish","type":"article","link":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/serviam\/article\/year-9-explore-minnamurra-rainforest\/","title":{"rendered":"Year 9 geographers go into the wild"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Our Year 9 geography students relished the chance to undertake hands-on fieldwork on a Minnamurra Rainforest excursion on 12 March.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">They investigated changes that have occurred to the rainforest biome over time, as part of their study of sustainable biomes.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Activities on the day included:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Testing of water, soil, temperature, turbidity, humidity and light intensity to understand why rainforests grow in the places they do<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">A guided walk to identify flora and fauna and their adaptations to the rainforest biome and to understand how tourists can minimise their impact<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">A talk from local experts on the uses and threats of the Minnamurra Rainforest.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n<h6><strong><em>Lara Grimm<\/em><\/strong><\/h6>\n<h6><strong><em>Assistant HSIE Coordinator<\/em><\/strong><\/h6>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Students had a fantastic time putting fieldwork theory into practice&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","class_list":["post-4719","article","type-article","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/serviam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article\/4719","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/serviam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/serviam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/article"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/serviam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4719"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/serviam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4719"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}