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TOPIC |
SUBJECTS DISCUSSED |
DISPLAY MATERIAL |
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ENDANGERED ANIMALS
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- Factors leading to extinction
- Issues: local to global
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- Preserved: Endangered &
Extinct-in-Victoria animals and illegal products seized & on loan from
Customs.
- Quolls, potoroo, leadbeaters possum,
whale bones, oil, skin, teeth & baleen
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THE SEA
Coastal Studies
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- Structure, Function &
Adaptation of coastal animals from Molluscs to Marine Mammals
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Human Impact on coastal habitat
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Life-cycles: shells, sharks &
other marine life
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Food Chains
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- Preserved animals: Fur Seal,
Little (Fairy) Penguin, whale bones, Blue-ringed Octopus, shark, cuttlefish, shell
eggs, shark egg cases, crab exo-skeletons, sponges & molluscs.
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Classifying
AUSTRALIAN ANIMALS
Feathers, Fur & Fins |
- Comparing & contrasting the
structure & function between the main animal groups: birds,
mammals, reptiles & minibeasts
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- LIVE reptiles & Minibeasts -
spiders & insects
- A large variety of preserved animals, bones, animal coverings
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MINIBEASTS
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- Life-cycles & Metamorphosis
- Comparing & contrasting structure &
function of spiders, insects & other invertebrates
- Food chains
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- LIVE spiders, beetles, stick
insects, & other minibeasts
- LIVE frogs and lizards that feed on
minibeasts
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MAMMALS
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- Placentals, Marsupials &
Monotremes
- Carnivores, Omnivores & Herbivores
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- LIVE rats & mice
- A large variety of taxidermied Mammals such
as: koala, platypus, possum, wallaby, echidna, wombat
- Bones, skulls, fur & Preserved young
marsupials
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BIRDS
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- Structure, Function &
Adaptation
- Life-cycles
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- A large variety of taxidermied
birds including sea birds, water birds, raptors (birds of prey)
- Skulls, nests & eggs
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REPTILES & AMPHIBIANS
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- Compare & contrast the main
reptile groups: snakes, crocodiles, turtles & lizards
- Life-cycles: live bearing & egg-layers
- Structure & Function of venomous &
non-venomous snakes
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- LIVE non-poisonous snakes,
lizards & freshwater turtles
- Preserved venomous snakes, eggs, marine
turtles, crocodiles and monitors
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VENOMOUS WILDLIFE
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- Structure & Function of
venomous animals: snakes, spiders, insects & sealife
- Safety precautions & Fist Aid
treatments
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- LIVE spiders
- Preserved Venomous animals: snakes,
Blue-ringed Octopus, Stonefish, cone shells & platypus
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