What is an Environmental Education Centre?
An environmental education centre is a vital part of Education Queensland’s resource support for sustainability and environmental education. We have the task of promoting, demonstrating and modelling the environmental education for sustainability.
The Boyne Island Environmental Education Centre:
engages students through residential or day visit experiences
engages teachers through professional development and pre-service training
engages schools and communities through the modelling sustainable practices.
Approximately 3,000 students visit our residential Centre each year for periods ranging from one day to five days and sometimes longer. Ages range from prep level visits, through primary and secondary years, and to tertiary and adults levels.
Our staff includes our Principal, two full-time equivalent teaching staff, a teachers aide, a business manager, a unit support officer, a cleaner and BIEEC also facilitates the Port Curtis Harbour Watch project officer.
What will I do at Boyne Island Environmental Education Centre?
Boyne Island Environmental Education Centre (BIEEC) is in a unique location allowing our curriculum to emphasise the natural coastal, marine and reef environments and human use of these areas. Our range of activities aims to be enjoyable, exciting, challenging, practical, first hand experiences with various aspects of the environment that adds value to school based programs by exploring the fieldwork component of environmental education beyond the capacity of most individual schools.
BIEEC teaching staff collaboratively design, with visiting teachers, a sequence of learning activities that is based on the students specific interests directly linked with classroom curriculum.
Please go to planning your visit to find out how to enquire about applying for a visit to BIEEC.