some other ideas

Hi All, I'm doing these as posts cause you can only have 10 pages and I figured we could chat about the lessons and then make pages once we've settled on what we're doing...

(sayra) There's a science lesson in there too, what would have lived here back then and what kinds of wildlife lives here now. I don't think we should go back to the dinosaurs or anything, just pre-1788 really. What do you think? There's probably an interesting way we can come up with to find out the back then bit. They can be Environmental Detectives. Or a geography lesson looking at the way the landscape changes as they level out hills to build. That might be getting too complicated and too far afield thou...

We could take them to the museum to look at all the taxidermied animals maybe? It could lead into extinct and endangered animals, especially Australian animals. SO that could lead to the zoo instead. Go see a bunch of live animals rather than a bunch of dead ones. They could make venn diagrams of the animals who are winning out (like feral cats, brumbies, fox and possums) and the guys who are loosing the battle (ahahaha, I was about the write 'bunyips', but I mean bilbies, quoll, erm, a bunch of others). They could look into why do some thrive and some don't. I think there's probably a good poetry lesson in there too. Poetry is all about opposites, or can be, and this is examining two opposite environments.