PPT 1 Science�� and how to do it �

Wheatbelt bush

Years K-2 Wheatbelt schools

1…ask questions

2 …how will we count?

3 …how will we write our counts (record data)?

4 …how will we analyse our data?

5 …how can we share what we found?

How will we be a scientist?

Noongar words from - https://www.noongarculture.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/Noongar-Dictionary-Second-Edition.pdf

Question 1.

What trees grow in our bush?

Gimlets - ngarrip (Eucalyptus salubris)

Wattle – Jam tree, mungaitch, manjart

Sheoak- kondil, kwel

Male flower

Female flower

Female cone

Gum tree - wandoo

buds, flowers

nuts

Eucalyptus wandoo

leaves

York gum – daarwet, wolung, yandee

Eucalyptus loxophleba

nuts

leaves, flowers

Acorn banksia - manyret

Banksia nut with open follicles

Banksia prionotes

Flowering spike

Quairading banksia (matchstick banksia)

Banksia acuminata

Banksia

Quandong (Sandalwood) – wongup, dumbari

fruit

leaves

tree

Woody pear – dumbung, janjin, quabba, kogala

Xylomelum occidentalis

Actinostrobus sp.

Pine tree (Callitris)

cones

nuts

What animals live near our trees?

spider - kara

Collect them in a pit-trap

Collect from a sample of litter

Year 1, Woodlands PS

Yrs 1/2, St Emelie’s Catholic College

How will we find them?

Animals have a home�called a HABITAT (hab – ee – tat)�

Who lives here?

ant - bidit

termite - wirt

Lizard -yorndi

Question 2.�How will we count?

We will use tally counting

5

For more than 5….

1

2

3

4

5

6

7

8

9

10

How Noongar people count

keny

koodjal

mo

koodjal-koodjal

maar

maar-keny

maar-koodjal

maar-mo

maar-koodjal-koodjal

maar-maar

How will we record our data?

Year 1, Woodlands PS

Photo, Jenny Russell

Question 3

In a WORKSHEET

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How will we analyse our data?

As a graph

Year 2, St. Emelie’s Catholic College

Year K, Perth College

Question 4.

How will we share what we found?

Question 5

Yrs PP-2, Mt Pleasant PS