Toohey Forest Environmental Education Centre

The Toohey Forest Environmental Education Centre is a collaborative venture between Griffith University and Education Queensland. It runs a rich and comprehensive range of school-oriented environmental educational programs. The Toohey Forest Environmental Education Centre promotes and supports environmental education through learning experiences designed for students, teachers and schools. These programs provide multi-disciplinary experiences that:

• Develop students' environmental appreciation and awareness, and offer skills for solving environmental problems
• Develop positive environmental attitudes and values that assist your students to evaluate the consequences of their lifestyles and behaviour towards the environment
• Can be collaboratively designed to ensure alignment with the classroom curriculum
• Can be provided at the EcoCentre, Toohey Forest or a range of other sites

In addition to providing learning experiences, Toohey Forest Environmental Education Centre staff can also provide a range of resources, professional support and advice for teaching staff and schools wishing to enhance environmental education in their classroom or school.

Please contact the Toohey Forest Environmental Education Centre for a full listing of programs, services, and booking arrangements.

The Environment Lab

The Environment Lab is a 5 metre long caravan that may be borrowed for up to a week by schools, conservation groups and other community groups.

The Environment Lab contains resources for hands-on activities, displays, books and brochures, and audio-visual materials on the Greenhouse Effect and renewable energy. These resources include:

• Working models powered by sunlight that help us to understand the advantages and disadvantages of solar-generated electricity.
• Solar concentrators such as a Stirling engine and solar sausage cooker which focus the sun’s rays to produce high temperatures.
• Solar reflectors that can be used to calculate heat energy efficiency.
• A solar hot water system.
• A solar distillation unit that shows how the power of the sun can be harnessed to desalinate water.
• A wind generator whose electrical output can be used to drive a radio or electrolyse water.