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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
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