Landcare education emphasises a hands-on approach as the best strategy to develop understanding and awareness about natural resource management and its connection to environmental, social and economic values.

Over 1500 teachers, 8000 primary and secondary students and 5500 Government agency staff have attended Landcare education courses at the Tammin Alcoa Landcare Education Centre (TALEC) since 1989. Many school groups return to TALEC each year or each alternate year. A number of schools have integrated Landcare across the curriculum, even making it a whole course of study for a term, with the course culminating in a field visit to TALEC. Other schools have set up collaborative projects with farmers in towns around the wheatbelt, producing seedlings to plant on these farmers properties and actually visiting the farms to plant the trees.

    

Landcare education is not restricted to courses at TALEC. Many teachers have incorporated Landcare education as part of the teaching-learning program. Other schools have set up environmnetal clubs, joined environmental groups or started environmentally aware school projects such as composting, growing trees, recycling and local tree planting.

    

Some of the schools involved in Landcare education include:

Primary Schools
Atwell PS	Bakers Hill PS
Calingiri PS	Como PS
Coogee PS	Currambine PS
Dandaragan PS	Edney PS
Ellenbrook PS	Falcon PS
Grovelands PS	Kalannie PS
Kondinin PS	Leeming PS
Mandurah PS	Melville PS
Midlands Christian School	Northam PS
North Dandalup PS	Parkerville PS
Riverside PS	Rockingham Lakes PS
Samson PS	South Merredin PS
St Anthony's PS	St Joseph's PS Northam
Tammin PS	The Quintilian School
Woodlands PS	Woodlupine PS
Secondary Schools
Applecross SHS	Aranmore Catholic College
Ballajura Community College	Bindoon Catholic Agricultural College
Carine SHS	Christchurch Grammar
Dalwallinu DHS	Eastern Hills SHS
John Forrest SHS	John 23rd College
Kwinana SHS	Lakeland SHS
LaSalle College	MLC
Newman College	St Mary's AGC
Wesley College	Willetton SHS
Youth and Community Groups
Northam Senior High School CALM Bushranger Cadets
Rossmoyne Senior High School CALM Bushranger Cadets

If you would like to include your school or group on this list please send an e-mail to Patricia.Janssen@det.wa.edu.au with school or group name and website address.