Lesson Plans

In this lesson we will learn how to navigate within the website.  As English through the Aboriginal Literacy Strategy is our school's priority all students will apply their skills in the following areas:- Listening and Speaking; Viewing; Reading and Writing.

Lesson One - Introduction to the Website

Michael Emrose
26/07/2005

Welcome Jigalong students to Teach Live 2005 - Echidnas and Goannas of Kangaroo Island.  Before we focus on how Biologist gather information on these two species that live on Kangaroo Island, we need to review what we already know and also to learn how to move around the website so we can find more useful information.

Discovering a Community

Michael Emrose
02/08/2005

In this lesson I'll tell you what the other teachers and myself have been doing since leaving Adelaide last Saturday.  We'll find out what a Biologist or Ecologist means by "Community" and look at techniques that they use to understand one.

How to find the Echidna you are studying.

Michael Emrose
03/08/2005

Greetings from Kangaroo Island where the weather has been unusually warm and sunny for this time of the year.  In this lesson we will be encountering some wildlife and you will asked to gather some information about other mammals that live here. 

Science provides new ideas for the Future

Michael Emrose
04/08/2005

In this lesson we learn about the biology/life cycle of a goanna and consider how research sparks new questions and new inventions!