South Australian Birds

 Conclusion activities 

Congratulations! In doing all of your activities you have

  • learnt a lot about one of our South Australian birds from the web.
  • practised gathering and organising the information from the web on your Data Collection Grid using dot points.
  • produced a Fact Sheet about your bird.
  • learnt about ways of making your Fact Sheet easy to read for your audience.
  • learnt and practised many desktop publishing skills.
If you would like to like to find out more about Australian birds, try a quiz, or do an activity, you might like to vist the following web sites.
 
 
Information about Australian birds
Birds of Lamington National Park http://lamington.nrsm.uq.edu.au/mainmenu.html

Birds at the Australian Reptile Park
http://www.reptilepark.com.au/animals/birds/Index.html

Bird observations and research from the students at Swan Hill North Primary School
http://www.ehnps.vic.edu.au/shnps2.htm

Information about birds by the students of Anderson's Creek Primary School
http://teachit.acreekps.vic.edu.au/animals/default.html

Information about the birds of Warriewoods Wetlands by children year 4/5 students of Elanora Heights Primary School
http://www.schools.ash.org.au/elanorah/wwetland.htm
 

Activities on the Australian birds on this website
 
Laughing Kookaburra activity by students from Anderson Creek Primary School.
http://teachit.acreekps.vic.edu.au/animals/kookaburraactivitypage.htm

Australian Magpie quiz at the bottom of the Magpie page students of Anderson Creek Primary School.
http://teachit.acreekps.vic.edu.au/animals/magpie.htm
 

Other activities
 
Listen to the recording of a bird call on the ABC Wildsound site, which has a library of more than one hundred recordings.
http://www.abc.net.au/archives/av/birds.htm
The Cleland Wildlife Park site has a page that has 12 South Australian bird call recordings.
http://www.cleland.sa.gov.au/download/download.htm

The Birds Australia site has a Bird Calls page with 6 recordings.
http://www.birdsaustralia.com.au/calls.html

Have you ever seen a bird and wondered what it is? This site can help you identify common urban Australian birds.
http://www2.abc.net.au/science/birds/query.htm


© 2001 Jackie Miers
bobandco@health.on.net
October,  2001