Tangentyere's Indigenous Landcare Educational Program

	Land & Learning Plant 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 look at the plants in their country. The activities we do include: Learning about bush tucker and medicine plants and to use them. Learning how to use plants to make tools. Collecting plant specimens for labelling on cards. Visiting different habitats and making maps. Visiting areas burnt recently and in the past, and recording what plants are growing in these areas. Making plans of the school and planting trees for shade and dust suppression. Examples from the Land & Learning Activities Book Drawing Maps Paint or draw on a large piece of canvas a map of your area, showing the main roads, the community and the surrounding country. With older students, you could make the map to scale. With the students, draw an outline of the different habitats you've visited over the term and paint each habitat a different colour. Get the students to draw pictures of the plants they have leant about on small pieces of paper, label them and glue them on to the map in the right habitats. [SOSE] [Lit] [Num] [Con 1] [Col 4] Scavenger Hunts Go with students on scavenger hunts, looking for seeds, flowers & leaves. With the different leaves you can do art activities like paint prints, spatter prints, and rubbings. You can press different leaves, flowers and seeds, and make cards with them. You could also make a large tree collage, using collected bark, leaves, fruits etc, or coloured pieces of paper. Label the parts of the tree. [Arts] 'Bush Supermarket' As a class study one plant in depth, from any of the habitats around the community, and discuss how it is a 'bush supermarket'. Find out all of the uses of the plant you choose. These may include food, tools, medicine, shelter. etc. Go out with the old people/parents and get more details. Also, find out what animals rely on the plant. You can do this by asking the old people, and looking for tracks, kuna/scats or burrows around the plant. Also watch for birds that may be nesting and/or feeding on the plant. Draw or photograph the plant and its uses. Also, draw all the animals and other plants that live in and under the plant. The students could make this into a book with photos, drawings and text. [ILC] [SOSE] [Sci] [Lit] [Num] [Tech] [Con 1] [Con 4] [HPE] [Col 4] Bushtucker Book Make your own school book about local bushfood and medicine plants. Local community members/parents can show you where to find these special plants. They can also tell you what the plants are used for and how to prepare them. Record any information and take plenty of photos showing people (adults and children) collecting and preparing the bushfoods and medicines. More information can be taken from resource books like Bushfires and Bushtucker by Peter Latz. Put the photos and information together in your own bushtucker book. [ILC] [Lit] [Num] [SOSE] [Arts] [Con 1] [Con 4] [LT] [HPE] [Col 4] 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 look at the plants in their country. The activities we do include:
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Learning about bush tucker and medicine plants and to use them.

Learning how to use plants to make tools.

Collecting plant specimens for labelling on cards.

Visiting different habitats and making maps.

Visiting areas burnt recently and in the past, and recording what plants are growing in these areas.

Making plans of the school and planting trees for shade and dust suppression.

Examples from the Land & Learning Activities Book

Drawing Maps
Paint or draw on a large piece of canvas a map of your area, showing the main roads, the community and the surrounding country. With older students, you could make the map to scale. With the students, draw an outline of the different habitats you've visited over the term and paint each habitat a different colour. Get the students to draw pictures of the plants they have leant about on small pieces of paper, label them and glue them on to the map in the right habitats. [SOSE] [Lit] [Num] [Con 1] [Col 4]

Scavenger Hunts
Go with students on scavenger hunts, looking for seeds, flowers & leaves. With the different leaves you can do art activities like paint prints, spatter prints, and rubbings. You can press different leaves, flowers and seeds, and make cards with them.
You could also make a large tree collage, using collected bark, leaves, fruits etc, or coloured pieces of paper. Label the parts of the tree. [Arts]

'Bush Supermarket'
As a class study one plant in depth, from any of the habitats around the community, and discuss how it is a 'bush supermarket'. Find out all of the uses of the plant you choose. These may include food, tools, medicine, shelter. etc. Go out with the old people/parents and get more details. Also, find out what animals rely on the plant. You can do this by asking the old people, and looking for tracks, kuna/scats or burrows around the plant. Also watch for birds that may be nesting and/or feeding on the plant. Draw or photograph the plant and its uses. Also, draw all the animals and other plants that live in and under the plant. The students could make this into a book with photos, drawings and text. [ILC] [SOSE] [Sci] [Lit] [Num] [Tech] [Con 1] [Con 4] [HPE] [Col 4]

Bushtucker Book
Make your own school book about local bushfood and medicine plants. Local community members/parents can show you where to find these special plants. They can also tell you what the plants are used for and how to prepare them. Record any information and take plenty of photos showing people (adults and children) collecting and preparing the bushfoods and medicines. More information can be taken from resource books like Bushfires and Bushtucker by Peter Latz. Put the photos and information together in your own bushtucker book. [ILC] [Lit] [Num] [SOSE] [Arts] [Con 1] [Con 4] [LT] [HPE] [Col 4]

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.