Available during all school terms in 2010

Discover Antarctica through this wonderful collection of items. The artefacts include igneous rock from Macquarie Island, beach treasures, specimens of krill, dolphin skin, seal skin and some interesting books and posters.

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Available during all school terms in 2010

Discover the secret lives of the fascinating creatures hidden deep within our rainforests.

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Available during all school terms in 2010

School History contains books and equipment used in Queensland classrooms in the late-19th to mid-20th century. Learners can explore and record the effects of change over time in a familiar classroom environment and investigate evidence about how innovations in technology have changed society. Kit contents include an inkwell, nib pen, slate, copybook, text books and school readers.

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Available Term 1 (Wed 27 Jan - Thurs 1 April 2010)

Get up close and personal with some of Australia’s nocturnal animals the possums. See a squirrel glider, feathertail glider, a glider in its natural habitat inside a tree hollow and a sugar glider skull specimen. Posters and books are also included in this kit.

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Available Term 1 (Wed 27 Jan - Thurs 1 April 2010)

Discover what animals look like on the inside. Australia has many vertebrate animals, or those with a skeleton. This kit contains skull specimens ranging from fish to birds, mammals and reptiles. The kit is supported by a book which looks at animal skeletons.

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Available Term 1 (Wed 27 Jan - Thurs 1 April 2010)

Discover Vietnamese headwear including hats. Scarves and headbands, handle water buffalo horns and read about Vietnam in books and postcards.

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Available Term 1 (Wed 27 Jan - Thurs 1 April 2010)

This kit provides evidence of life from the past. Handle real fossil specimens including a shell, coral, fern, wood and a kanagaroo limb. Learn about the different periods of time, read about collecting fossils and see fossil casts.

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Available Term 1 (Wed 27 Jan - Thurs 1 April 2010)

Macquarie Island is a sub Antarctic Island located halfway between Australia and Antarctica. Australia operates a research station on this Island. Explore some of the plant and animal life, both land and marine based in this fascinating kit which includes penguin skulls, seal skin, seal jawbones, rocks, posters and much more.

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Available Term 1 (Wed 27 Jan - Thurs 1 April 2010)

This kit was developed in 2009 as part of a Q150 project and looks at the fascinating range of Primary Industries represented on the Queensland Coat of Arms.

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Available Term 2 (Mon 12 April - Fri 25 June 2010)

Explore fossil evidence of dinosaurs that once lived in central Queensland and build awareness about changes on earth over time. Consider how Palaeontologists interpret evidence to provide information about past and present landscapes and events. Build understandings about how global patterns of change on earth can be explained using scientific theories, including geological history.

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