HSIE: Where The Forest Meets The Sea

In HSIE we have been looking at the beautiful 'Where The Forest Meets The Sea' by Jeannie Baker.

You can buy the book and also purchase the beautiful animation to watch in class or at home.

The NT Government has produced a unit of work to undertake with your class.

When we do our Rainforest activities we like to listen to this beautiful Rainforest music:

Primary Connections: Plants In Action - Lesson Four

This week our lesson is called 'Flowers and Pollination.'

Together we will watch this animation that will explain pollination.

Some further information on the function of plant parts with an excellent diagram of a flower cross-section.

Some giant water lillies growing in the amazon!


Check out which native bees are living in your area!

Visit the National Botanic Gardens website here.

An explanation on the parts of a flower:

Harmony Day 2013: We've Got The Whole World In Our Hands

As a whole school we will sing an alternative version of 'We've Got the Whole World In Our Hands' for Harmony Day!


More resources for Harmony Day can be found here.

Lyrics:

We’ve Got The Whole World in Our Hands

We’ve got the whole world, in our hands
We’ve got the whole world, in our hands
We’ve got the whole world in our hands
We’ve got the whole world in our hands

We should recycle now - all that we can
Reduce, Reuse, Recycle - all that we can
Reduce, Reuse, Recycle - all that we can
We’ve got the whole world in our hands

Be kind to the plants and animals - in our land
Be kind to the plants and animals - in our land
Be kind to the plants and animals - in our land
We’ve got the whole world in our hands

We’ve got the whole world, in our hands
We’ve got the whole world, in our hands
We’ve got the whole world, in our hands
We’ve got the whole world in our hands

Shake hands with sisters and brothers - throughout the land
Join hands with sisters and brothers - throughout the land
Join hands with sisters and brothers - throughout the land
We’ve got the whole world in our hands

Dream your bright dream - then do all that you can
Dream your bright dream - then do all that you can
Dream your bright dream - then do all that you can
We’ve got the whole world in our hands

We’ve got the whole world, in our hands
We’ve got the whole world, in our hands
We’ve got the whole world, in our hands
We’ve got the whole world in our hands

HSIE - Local Environments

A range of different Australian National Parks can be explored here and here.

This Teacher's Guide and Fact Sheets produced by The National Parks and Wildlife Service compliment any learning unit on National Parks!

Indigenous protected areas (also known perhaps as Aboriginal sites) are introduced and discussed in the video below:

Indigenous Protected Areas – Overview from Parks Australia on Vimeo.

Some information on Bush Medicine and tools:

Bush medicine and tools from Parks Australia on Vimeo.

What does a Park Ranger do? (With a focus on animal poaching in Africa)



Working at Australia's Kakadu!



What is it like to work in an Arctic National Park? (Canada)



Caring for National Parks - supporting them (America:



Play the Dust Echoes Hive Alive game!

Finally, a great range of links for teachers is here.

Primary Connections: Plants in Action - Lesson Three

This week we are looking at seed germination and will be germinating our own broadbean seeds!

The Australian Native Plants Society have a webpage that looks at the different ways that native seeds germinate.

How to germinate Australian native seeds and compare growth with bean seeds.

Some nativs plants depend on animals for seed germination!

Primary Connections: Plants in Action - Lesson One

Lesson One of 'Plants in Action' offers some curriculum links that offer some Indigenous perspectives.

Visit and view the Yolgnu people of Ramingining's Plants and Animals story here.

Information on uses of plants by Aboriginal People, and an Aboriginal Trail of plants.