Wednesday, July 11, 2007

Resources You Can Borrow from the Project Officer

I have a huge collection of resouces that I can loan out to schools. These include:
  • Microscopes
  • Mangifying glasses
  • Binoculars
  • FlexiCam
  • Animal Scats
  • Snake skins
  • Seed collections
  • Bird feathers
  • Insects
  • Clipboards
  • Bumbags
  • Posters
  • Petri dishes, pipettes, measuring cylinders etc for studying water holes and other basic science activities
  • Hand puppets of local animals
  • All you need to do the Rock Around the Park activities
  • Reference books, activity books and children's books on animals, plants, and other aspects of environmental education for sustainability and science
  • Wooden Kay Kessing cut outs of the animals and plants of each Desert Park habitat for use in your classroom or for stage sets etc.
  • The Alice Springs Desert Park also has an Insects in Schools program through which we can provide you with local stick insects for study in your classroom. A unit of work and care instructions can be found on ExploreNT. Log in with your latis username and password and type 'using stick insects in the classroom' into the search terms.

NT teachers wishing to borrow any of these items please call me on 8951 8718, or email me on emma.bliss@nt.gov.au

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