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Australian animals

Australia’s Lost Kingdoms
http://www.lostkingdoms.com/
Focusing on Australia’s reptiles, birds and mammals from the Cretaceous to the present time, this resource from the Australian Museum contains links, games, age-appropriate information and movies.

 

Backyard Buddies are the native animals that share our built-up areas, waterways, backyards and parks. Backyard buddies are also the people who value native animals and plants, and want to protect and help them.

 

Henry the Sea Lion
http://www.henrythesealion.com/
Residents and visitors to Adelaide have come to love Henry, an adult male Australian sea-lion who lives on the Adelaide coastline. Learn what sea-lions should eat, find out where Henry is now, read his diary, view sea-lion photos and find out more about what you can do to protect other sea-lions like Henry.

 

ABC TV's Our Animals
http://www.abc.net.au/schoolstv/animals/
Developed to support an ABC TV series of the same name, and aimed at lower to middle primary students, this web site looks at Australian animals, their physical features, food, homes and environment and social groups. For animals in the air, on the ground and in the water, there are colouring sheets and a glossary.

 

Visiting the Museum: Activities to download and print out
http://www.amonline.net.au/visiting/general/activities_download.htm
This page from the Australian Museum Online presents a range of activity
sheets and booklets for young children on the topics of: thylacine or
Tasmanian tiger, marsupial lion, dinosaurs, frog, skull, bird, bone,
fish, fairy penguin, bug with wings, freshwater habitat, mangrove
habitat, scorpion. Activities include colouring in, dot-to-dot, cut out
and make, make a booklet, picture spinners.

  Australian Animals http://www.kidcyber.com.au/topics/Austanimalsunit.htm 

In this unit students will think about animals and their adaptations to their environment, gain understandings about the inter-relationships of living things, learn about issues relating to survival and conservation.

 

ABC: Our Animals
 http://www.abc.net.au/schoolstv/animals/default.htm
 Looks at Australian animals, their physical features, food, homes and
environment and social groups.

 Unique Australian Animals
 http://home.mira.net/~areadman/aussie.htm
 Database of Australian Animals. 

Australia Mini Unit
Grades 3-5 - The unit is a quick, broad-based social studies survey of Australia; any one of the topics of culture, government,

geography, and animal and plant life could easily be stretched out over several days

 

http://www.teachers.ash.org.au/jmresources/ausanimallinks/index.html

These are links to sites with information and lessons on many animals and birds

http://www.teachers.ash.org.au/jmresources/birdlinks/index.html

Australian Animal Archive
Grades K-12 - An alphabetical index of Australian animals including pictures and descriptions.

Lesson Plans for Australian Animals and Biomes
Grades 4-12 - Several activities, including a few photos

  Australian Animals
You have been hired by the curator of the local zoo to help in setting up an Australian animal exhibit

  http://www.dltk-kids.com/animals/australian.html     crafts and colouring pages of Australian animals

Australian Animals to Paint Online - EnchantedLearning.com
http://www.enchantedlearning.com/painting/Australia.shtml

 

 Australian Animal Printouts
 http://www.enchantedlearning.com/coloring/Australia.shtml
 Fact sheets about Australian animals.

*Patrice Ramsay, Lesson planning with MacquarieNet: Australian animals
http://education.qld.gov.au/tal/tips/01899.htm

 

Pre-readers' Australian Animals Quiz for Little Explorers
http://www.enchantedlearning.com/classroom/K1/ausanimals.shtml

Pre-readers' Australian Animals Quiz. This is an Australian Animals Quiz, a picture dictionary

scavenger hunt for children who are starting to be familiar with the alphabet and the sounds the letters make.

 

http://members.ozemail.com.au/~slacey/austanimals.htm

selected weblinks on Australian animals

 

http://www.edna.edu.au/schools/themes/animals.html

 

Australian natural resources atlas

 

Australia Zoo
official site for both Steve Irwin, the Crocodile Hunter, and the Australia Zoo.
http://srd.yahoo.com/drst/20772952/*http://www.crocodilehunter.com/

 

The Marsupials of Australia, Carnivorous Marsupials
Australian Wildlife special report: Marsupials of Australia. Grouped by family, with features and number of species living in Australia.
http://www.australianwildlife.com.au/features/marsupials3.htm

Marsupial Pages to Color Online - EnchantedLearning.com
http://www.enchantedlearning.com/painting/marsupial.shtml

  http://www.geocities.com/aveenb/koalas.htm  Lots of links to sites about koalas that are child-friendly 

 

20. Monotremes: EnchantedLearning.com
http://www.enchantedlearning.com/subjects/mammals/monotreme/index.shtml


 
http://www.enchantedlearning.com/subjects/insects/printouts.shtml


25. Dingo Printout- EnchantedLearning.com
http://www.enchantedlearning.com/subjects/mammals/dog/Dingocoloring.shtml

The Dingo is a wild dog that lives in Australia and somtimes hunts in packs.

 

62. Tasmanian Tiger Printout- EnchantedLearning.com
http://www.enchantedlearning.com/subjects/mammals/marsupial/Tastiger.shtml

Tasmanian Tiger Printout. The Tasmanian Tiger, Thylacinus cynocephalus, was a carnivorous marsupial from Tasmania that is probably extinct - it is not closely related to tigers.

World Wide Wombat Web

    This site from a wombat enthusiast provides links to information
    about this Australian burrowing marsupial. Includes links to
    information about northern and southern hairy-nosed wombats, a
    site about the care of orphaned joeys and releasing them into the
    wild, images, and more.

   http://serf.org/wombats.html

 Webquests

http://www.geocities.com/ResearchTriangle/Thinktank/2693/feral.html

http://oncampus.richmond.edu/academics/as/education/projects/webquests/australia/

"An episode on Australian animals"

 

http://cte.jhu.edu/techacademy/fellows/MENTZER/webquest/austan.htm

using multimedia to research Australian animals

Koalas_files/filelist.xml


Runaway stars

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