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| When you come in the front gate you see
the Grade 7 classroom, the flag pole and the sun dial. We also have a covered patio.
Sometimes they have reading on the patio,experiments or sometimes they have lunch. -Kristy, Yr 5,1999 |
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| You can see the Mooloolah School
rainforest very clearly. Also you can see it from the fort, basketball court, the oval and
other areas of the school. The rainforest is very green, lush and beautiful and is home
for many animals. -Hannah, Yr 5, 1999 |
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Visit the animals on the forest floor. |
| If there is no light small plants on the
forest floor will die. When the sunlight gets to the plants on the bottom of the forest
floor the plants will grow. The canopy grows more because it gets the most sunlight. The
plants on the understorey don't get as much sunlight as the canopy because the canopy
blocks most of the sunlight. -Matt and Danielle,Yr 5, 1999 |
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Investigate the birds that fly or walk into Our Rainforest. |
| The Role of Layers in the Rainforest There are four layers in the rainforest. Layer 1 is the forest floor covered with leaf litter. Layer 2 is the understorey where possums hang out. Layer 3 is the canopy which is like a roof. Layer 4 is the emergent layer where trees have emerged out the top. -Anthony & Garrett,Yr 5,1999 |
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Look at the animals that hunt in the Forest Understorey |
| Buttress Roots Buttress roots grow on the tree and are exposed. They are high and skinny. They grow on trees when there is shallow soil. They spread out instead of down. |
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| Our forest floor shows the nutrient cycle in action with rotting leaves and decomposers at work. This breaks down plant matter to create rich soil for the plants. |
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Find out about animals that climb in our Rainforest |
| It is amazing to look back on Stage 1 planted way back in 1988. The same planting process is used today as Mooloolah students plant a new stage each year. |
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| Here students admire the newly planted trees in Stage 10 - 1998. |
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