One of Autumn’s remarkable seasonal changes is the migration of honeyeaters flying North for the winter from March to May….
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How to Identify Spider Webs
… the web itself is a miricle. E. B. White | Charlotte’s Web Spiders are undoubtedly designed architects who engineer…
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How do Spiders Make Webs?
Poetry is afresh morning spider-webtelling a storyof moonlit hours ofweaving and waitingduring a night. Carl Sandburg Love or hate them, arachnids…
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Mathematics in a Spider’s Web
Logarithmic spirals… Geometry… Trigonometry… If I told you these things are beautiful would you believe me? Or would you have…
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Mixed Media Nature Journal
Our Autumn Easter Holiday project was to create a handmade, mixed media, nature journal. These journals are fun to make….
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Stars
Over the Easter break we enjoyed a trip to the Bendigo Planetarium, it is part of the Science and Technology…
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Autumn Wildflowers
“Higher up the bank a host of red spider flowers jig like living things to the music of the wind.”…
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Mushrooms
Do you like searching for mushrooms? This Fly Agaric is such a pretty mushroom, but it’s not one you would…
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Come and Look at Banksias with Us.
Are you interested in finding out more about the Banksia plant? This week, we are spending time with A Handbook…
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Do Birds Have an In-Built Compass?
It’s migration time again. Every year, birds that we have become accustomed to seeing, disappear. It seems that as the…
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Gecko’s Sticky Feet
Have you wondered how geckos are able to climb smooth surfaces and crawl upside down? How do geckos magnetize themselves…
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