Year 11 VCAL Melbourne Zoo Trip

On the 4th of March the Year 11 VCAL students went to the Melbourne Zoo. We were split off into groups when we first arrived. In my group we did a workshop. The workshop was about how the Zoo saves energy, uses energy and recycles.

We had a tour of the Zoo of all the machines and different ways they save energy and recycle waste. There were 3 main ways they used, saved and recycled that stood out to me, they were:

• A greenhouse layout that was using the sun's energy to make the plants grow faster.
• There was a big long machine that was using all the water around the zoo so nothing was wasted.
• There was also another machine that recycles all the rubbish, everyone puts in the rubbish bins at the zoo and the animals waste. They would put it through the machine which is set at 50 degrees and gets broken down by heaps of different bacteria throughout the machine. Once the waste has gone through the machine and broken up they use it as manure for the plants and gardens around the Zoo.

Once my group and I finished the workshop we had a couple of hours to look around the zoo using our mapping skills that we had learnt in numeracy to know what directions we are walking in and to make sure we didn't get lost!

At the end of the day I had learnt different ways that the zoo saves energy, uses energy and recycles.

Rory Desnoy