Introduction to the Activities

The site has a variety of purposes:

to give information about a unique site in the local area

to provide activity sheets to assist learning about aspects of the bush

to inspire people to visit the site and enjoy it. Link to Activity Home

Activity	Level	Description
Birds	introductory	Black and White birds; Bird Calls; Beaks and Feet;
Frogs	introductory	Frog calls to recognise frogs
Termites	introductory	Termite mounds and the social activities
Scribbly gums	introductory	What gums have them and what causes the scribbles?
Mistletoe	introductory	Hollows in the trees; who lives in them? where does the mistletoe come from?
Eucalypts in the Aranda Bushland	introductory	What are the different species types in the Aranda Bushland and how they are distributed.
Interaction between plants and animals	introductory	Food Chains and the food web; Water watch; what is in the dam? Fungi; the part they play in the food chain; Succession; from rocks to bushland.
Physical aspects of the site	introductory	Geology of the area; Soils of the area; Weeding to care for the bush.
Writing about the bush	upper primary and high school	Developing a reaction to the bush through writing; Some examples of other people's reaction to the bush
Curriculum aspects of teaching about the bush	teachers	Bloom's taxonomy and Gardener's Multiple Intelligences matrix
Water Watch Detective	introductory	A method of making a judgment on the relative pollution of streams and ponds.

The links to the various activities will be found on the Activity Home Page

A description of the whole site and a sample of various activities will be found at
Activity Introduction