Tag archives for National Parks

Incursion: Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Tuesday March 23rd

We will be going on a virtual excursion to the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park for our H.S.I.E. unit on State and National Parks.
You will get the opportunity to observe up to five thousand live sea creatures, experience the habitats, ecosystems and behaviour of reef creatures, analyse the interactions that exist between reef creatures, appreciate [...]

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Excursion: Ku-ring-gai Wednesday 24th March

As part of our HSIE study of State and National Parks. We will be travelling to Kalkari Discovery Centre within Ku-ring-gai National Park. We will be guided on a walk through the National Park by the Kalkari guides and participate in a variety of experiments and activities.
Venue: Kalkari Discovery Centre – Bobbin Head
Cost: $15.00
Transport: bus
Dress: [...]

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Preserving (Saving) our National Parks

Minnamurra Rainforest in Budderoo National Park on the south coast of New South Wales, Australia. It was a tiny rainforest remnant that was gradually but surely being loved to death by the thousands of visitors who came year after year to admire and marvel at its many wanders and bath in the icy waters of [...]

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Assignment: Saving Nemo and the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park

The Great Barrier Reef is one of the richest, most complex and diverse ecosystems in the world. The Great Barrier Reef Marine Park begins at the tip of Cape York in Queensland and extends south almost to Bundaberg. The area is larger than Victoria and Tasmania combined and stretches more than 2300km along the north-east [...]

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Web Quest: State and National Parks

National parks are large areas of public land set aside for native plants, animals and the places in which they live. National parks protect places of natural beauty. They also protect places important to Aboriginal people, and places that show how people lived in the past.
Find the answers to all these questions and then type [...]

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