Available Term One

Explore 3 specimens including a Feathertail Glider, Squirrel Glider and a Glider inside a tree hollow, as well as casts of a Sugar Glider skull and foot. The Kit is also supported with an assortment of books and posters.

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Available Term One

Explore common features including the head, legs and wings of giant insects and other invertebrates. Specimens include a butterfly, cicada, Giant Burrowing Cockroach, insect wings, snail, stick insect and more. Kit also comes with 4 insect finger puppets and arthropod activities.

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Available Term One

A fascinating collection of identified rocks and minerals that borrowers can handle, sort and classify according to types, locations and physical characteristics. The Kit includes 18 specimens such as Gypsum, marble, pumice, quartz, calcite, granite and more as well as a hand lens.

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Available Term One

Students can explore and engage with Torres Strait Islander cultural material, tools and customs. Artefacts include a drum, dress, bamboo clapper, woven bag, fabric panel, head dress, jewellery, flag and more. Printed resources include maps and stimulus pictures.

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Available Term One

Engage with artefacts used by gold miners in colonial Queensland. Consider factors that have contributed to people migrating to Australia. Artefacts include a billy with lid, British Imperial and Chinese coins, small gold pan, pick head and cover, stirrup, canvas water bag and gold flakes and alluvial deposit.

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Available Term One

Investigate and compare common domestic items from the early 1900s to the present. Students can also consider domestic practices that could better meet sustainability objectives in the future. The Kit includes 20 artefacts including butter pats, a billy, chamber pot, egg beater, hair rollers, iron, milk jug cover, rolling pin, tea cosy, hair curling tongs, washboard, candle holder, doyley and more.

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Available Term Two

This Kit comes with a specimen of a Fruitbat (Flying Fox), a display box and the skull of a fruit bat. This Kit can link in to topics of mammals, nocturnal animals, how animals move, foods animals eat, flight, food chains and more.

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Available Term Two

Explore shelters that animals use and how they meet their basic needs in an environment. Specimens include Barnacles, a Hermit Crab, bird nest, shells, shipworms, Garden Snail, turtle shell and a paper wasp nest.

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Available Term Two

The Jurassic period was approximately 210 million years ago. It is a period of time also known as the age of reptiles. Discover the Jurassic through a fern fossil specimen, a model of an Ichthyosaur and casts of an Allosaurus (large bipedal dinosaur) claw, Ichthyosaur (marine reptile) skeleton, snout, vertebrae, eye socket and a Pterosaur (flying reptile) fossil.

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Available Term Two

This Kit is a great springboard to explore and compare the origins of diverse cultural celebrations.  Artefacts include a Christmas cracker, Indian floral garland, Lion Mask, Muslim prayer mat, Ghana rattle, maraca from Peru, Chinese New Year decoration and more.

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