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ELANORA HEIGHTS PRIMARY SCHOOL
Ecology Day - Wed 1st April
9:30 - 12:30

Greetings to our friends in Hornbæk, Denmark.

Can you see on the wall the photos of Hornbæk Sø?

Today I am wearing the Tshirt you sent me from Denmark.

This term we have been trying to develop in children an awareness of different types of Ecosystems - and how interdependent all life forms are within an Ecosystem.

Each activity takes 15mins. Here are the activities :-

Displaying their finds

1. Bushwalk
We went to see signs of living creatures in our school bushland e.g. spiders, birdsong, a legless lizard. We could smell the wet leaf mulch because it had been raining.

Sale of the Century Quiz

2. Sale of the Century Ecology Quiz

Many of the questions in the quiz came from topics studied in class time.

Choose a prize

Our food scraps go in
here for the worms to eat.

3. Using magnifying glasses to study worms
5F have been setting up a worm farm and thinking about how recycling helps in an ecosystem.

We used magnifying glasses to see the worms.

Finding animal facts on the computer.

4. Research about birds and animals via CD
Children often conduct their research on computers these days.

5. Ecology card game
This game is printed from an Internet site which displays the foodchain of Massachusetts Bay.

Foodchain card game

Making an insect

6. Build an insect from junk materials
All children in the school have used the CD about Insects, listening to their sounds and learning about their place in an ecosystem. They designed an insect on computer. Now they can build one.

Insects children made

7. Who lives here? - lift the flap and see
Most classes have focused on one ecosystem and found out which creatures live in it. In this activity, the children made a picture of an ecosystem and put the creatures in the correct place.

8. Environmental problems in the Bay
Senior classes have spent computer time using some software based on environmental problems in Port Phillip Bay. Here they are letting other children do some creative problem solving about this.

Solving environmental problems in the Bay.

In the oval you can see a baby ringtail possom - it is
2mths old. Marie feeds it milk through an eye dropper.

9. Visiting expert from WIRES
WIRES volunteers care for animals and birds found injured (usually from the actions of cats or cars). They nurse them back to health and try to return them to their ecosystem.

10. SimPark and Zookeeper in Computer Room
In Simpark the children develop a National Park and are rewarded if they achieve biodiversity in their ecosystem. In Zookeeper, the children must correct the environmental conditions before the animal will appear.

There is a Marine Food Web on the wall - printouts from Internet that the children sorted to make a Food Web.

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ELANORA HEIGHTS PRIMARY SCHOOL Ecology Day - Wed 1st April 9:30 - 12:30

Greetings to our friends in Hornbæk, Denmark.

Can you see on the wall the photos of Hornbæk Sø?

Today I am wearing the Tshirt you sent me from Denmark.

This term we have been trying to develop in children an awareness of different types of Ecosystems - and how interdependent all life forms are within an Ecosystem. Each activity takes 15mins. Here are the activities :-

1. Bushwalk We went to see signs of living creatures in our school bushland e.g. spiders, birdsong, a legless lizard. We could smell the wet leaf mulch because it had been raining.

2. Sale of the Century Ecology Quiz

Many of the questions in the quiz came from topics studied in class time.

3. Using magnifying glasses to study worms 5F have been setting up a worm farm and thinking about how recycling helps in an ecosystem.

4. Research about birds and animals via CD Children often conduct their research on computers these days.

5. Ecology card game This game is printed from an Internet site which displays the foodchain of Massachusetts Bay.

6. Build an insect from junk materials All children in the school have used the CD about Insects, listening to their sounds and learning about their place in an ecosystem. They designed an insect on computer. Now they can build one.

7. Who lives here? - lift the flap and see Most classes have focused on one ecosystem and found out which creatures live in it. In this activity, the children made a picture of an ecosystem and put the creatures in the correct place.

8. Environmental problems in the Bay Senior classes have spent computer time using some software based on environmental problems in Port Phillip Bay. Here they are letting other children do some creative problem solving about this.

9. Visiting expert from WIRES WIRES volunteers care for animals and birds found injured (usually from the actions of cats or cars). They nurse them back to health and try to return them to their ecosystem.

Computer Co-ordinator : Judith Bennett : This page was last modified 1st April, 1998