This online resource is a game that simulates an Australian garden.
The resource is an interactive game that allows users to investigate the ecology of an average Australian garden.
Students can explore, find, collect, read about and classify a range of creatures commonly found in an Australian garden, including: crickets, wasps, slaters, ants, and dragonflies. In all there are 24 creatures to find.
This online resource supports Year 1 students learning about schoolyard creatures.
The resource details ways of engaging and supporting Year 1 students in their learning about the features, behaviours and habitats of some schoolyard creatures.
The animals covered in this resource are mainly earthworms, snails and ants.
New Australian Curriculum Codes: AC9SFU01 (Foundation), AC9S1U01 (Year 1)
A unit of work about the differences between day and night.
It contains modules of work for younger students around the themes of the environment, astronomy, forensic science, cleanliness and solar energy and how they relate to the day–night cycle.
As an example, one part of this resource deals with how children relate and build on their experiences of daytime light and night-time dark (e.g., is the grass still green at night?).
New Australian Curriculum Codes: AC9S1U02 (Year 1)
