Our Surviving Change: Animal Adaptations program is specifically designed for Grade 5 and 6 students, providing real-world examples to help Teachers explore the curriculum descriptors shown at the bottom of this webpage.
Our experienced Education Officers will facilitate a comprehensive program, in which Learners will:
- observe and learn about the behaviours, movements, and features of an animal, and consider how these enable species to take advantage of different types of habitats and climates
- consider the changes to habitats that have occurred over long and short timescales, and discover how animals may have survived these changes, or predict how animals may be affected by or respond to future change.
- explore how people can affect change to habitats, and manage them to ensure the sustainability of their use, or protect and restore habitats to conserve communities of flora and fauna, especially threatened species.
2026 PRICES
**TERM ONE DISCOUNTED PRICING**
Cost per student: $21.50 (minimum charge for 15 students per timetabled group)
TERMS TWO, THREE, FOUR
Cost per student: $24.00 (minimum charge for 15 students per timetabled group)
- Includes sessions facilitated by a Moonlit Sanctuary Education Officer (supervision by School Teachers required)
- Includes 1 Teacher-led session in the Wallaby Walk and roo food
- Includes reserved undercover seating.
- Includes entry to Moonlit Sanctuary
Extra adults over the below ratios: $25.50 (to a maximum of 1:1)
NOTE: All prices include GST
ADULT TO STUDENT RATIO
Grade 3 and above: 1 adult included free of charge for every 10 students (rounded up to next 10)
Carers and Aides (for students with physical or learning needs): 1 included per student free of charge
Extra adults over the above ratios: $25.50 (to a maximum of 1:1)
RESOURCES
On the day a Wallaby Walk Guide will be provided to leading teachers, and other supervising adults to assist them in facilitating the teacher-led session.
Digital copies of this resource can be found here: Guide to Wallaby Walk
GROUP SIZE, STUDENT NUMBERS, TIMETABLE
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- We can run programs for 1 to 6 groups/classes
- There is a minimum charge for 15 students per timetabled group (invoiced for 15 per timetabled group even if fewer attend).
- There is a maximum seating capacity for 140 Grade 5&6 students per day
- Schools can split or combine classes to ensure they meet minimum or maximum numbers.
- Schools with more than 6 classes, or more than 140 students, can visit over multiple days
Please contact us for more information and to see example timetables.
Curriculum Links – Surviving Change: Animal Adaptations program
Victorian Curriculum F–10 Version 2.0 : Grade 5 and 6
| LEARNING AREA: SCIENCE | |
| Biological Science | Habitats can be described by their physical conditions; changing the physical conditions of a habitat, including by human activity, may affect the growth and survival of organisms (VC2S6U01) |
| Organisms have evolved over time, as seen in fossils and scientific records; the structural features and behaviours of living organisms enable them to thrive in their environments (VC2S6U02) | |
| Science as a Human Endeavour: Use and influence of science | Scientific knowledge, skills and data can be used by individuals and communities to identify problems, consider responses and make decisions (VC2S6H02) |
| LEARNING AREA: GEOGRAPHY | |
| Geographical Knowledge and Understanding: Management of places | How places and environments are changed and managed by people (VC2HG6K01) |
| The importance of sustainability to places and environments, including the custodial responsibility Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples have for Country and Place and how it influences their sustainability practices (VC2HG6K04) | |
| Cross Curriculum Priorities: Learning about sustainability | |
| Learning Capabilities: Critical and creative thinking & Ethical | |
