Tangentyere's Indigenous Landcare Educational Program

	Land & Learning Animal Activities
Home Page Animals Plants Water Land & Learning background Tangentyere Landcare services Contact Us Disclaimer	When the Land & Learning project workers visit schools we work with community members to do field activities with students and support teachers with classroom activities. Field Work We go out bush with the elders and school children to see what animals are still around in their country. The activities we do include: Trapping for small mammals using Elliot traps Trapping for reptiles and mammals using pit fall traps Tracking: looking for tracks, scats and burrows Birdwatching These trips provide fantastic opportunities for students to learn stories and traditional ecological knowledge from the elders, and also scientific methods of animal trapping and identification. We use these field trips to teach the children about feral and native animals; threatened and endangered species; the ecology of particular species. Worksheets and graphing exercises help students develop literacy and numeracy. Examples from the Land & Learning Activities Book Wall Chart Ask students to think about all of the different animals they know from their country. Brainstorm a list of animals and their names in English and Language. Make a large chart to hang on the wall (see below). Paste the Tangentyere animal cards onto the chart, or get the children to draw pictures of the animals and paste them on. The chart can be used to identify known and unknown English and Language words and used to generate spelling lists etc. Aboriginal teachers and older community members will be able to help with the Language names for the animals. They will also know information and stories about the animals that you could add to the chart. [ILC] [Lit] [Con1] [Con4] Feral Animals White people brought new animals to Australia. These are called introduced or feral animals. They include cats, foxes, rabbits, cows, camels, horses. Which feral animals occur in your area? Show the feral animal cards to the old people. Ask them when they first saw some of these animals. Did any of them become a food source for Aboriginal people, or do they have another significance? What impact are these animals having on the country? (Eg. digging big warrens, trampling vegetation and causing erosion, eating native plant and/or animal species, increasing dust.) Ask students to paint a picture or write/draw a story showing some of this information. Children could work in small groups telling and writing stories about different native and feral animals. [Lit] [Col 1] [SOSE] [ILC] There are lots more activities in our book! To order a copy CONTACT US.
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When the Land & Learning project workers visit schools we work with community members to do field activities with students and support teachers with classroom activities.
Field Work
We go out bush with the elders and school children to see what animals are still around in their country. The activities we do include:

Trapping for small mammals using Elliot traps

Trapping for reptiles and mammals using pit fall traps

Tracking: looking for tracks, scats and burrows

Birdwatching

These trips provide fantastic opportunities for students to learn stories and traditional ecological knowledge from the elders, and also scientific methods of animal trapping and identification.

Placing an elliot trap in the field

We use these field trips to teach the children about feral and native animals; threatened and endangered species; the ecology of particular species. Worksheets and graphing exercises help students develop literacy and numeracy.

Releasing a mulgara

Examples from the Land & Learning Activities Book

Wall Chart
Ask students to think about all of the different animals they know from their country. Brainstorm a list of animals and their names in English and Language. Make a large chart to hang on the wall (see below). Paste the Tangentyere animal cards onto the chart, or get the children to draw pictures of the animals and paste them on. The chart can be used to identify known and unknown English and Language words and used to generate spelling lists etc.
Aboriginal teachers and older community members will be able to help with the Language names for the animals. They will also know information and stories about the animals that you could add to the chart. [ILC] [Lit] [Con1] [Con4]

Feral Animals
White people brought new animals to Australia. These are called introduced or feral animals. They include cats, foxes, rabbits, cows, camels, horses. Which feral animals occur in your area? Show the feral animal cards to the old people. Ask them when they first saw some of these animals. Did any of them become a food source for Aboriginal people, or do they have another significance? What impact are these animals having on the country? (Eg. digging big warrens, trampling vegetation and causing erosion, eating native plant and/or animal species, increasing dust.) Ask students to paint a picture or write/draw a story showing some of this information. Children could work in small groups telling and writing stories about different native and feral animals. [Lit] [Col 1] [SOSE] [ILC]

There are lots more activities in our book!
To order a copy CONTACT US.

Tangentyere Land & Learning Project
PO BOX 8070, Alice Springs, NT, 0871
Phone No: 08 8953 3120 Fax No: 08 8952 3185

E-mail: Landcare@tangentyere.org.au

Field Work

Examples from the Land & Learning Activities Book

There are lots more activities in our book!To order a copy CONTACT US.

There are lots more activities in our book!
To order a copy CONTACT US.