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  • count and measure - DATA
  • record data in a NOTEBOOK
  • find patterns in the data –ANALYSIS
  • use patterns to PREDICT an event
  • tell others about the findings – COMMUNICATE

SCIENCE – how will we do it?

Measuring at Warralong Community School Photo - Moemai Hook

PPT 1

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  • RECORDING TREES

Nookaminnie Bush Reserve

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long thin leaves

seeds in pods

flower spikes

mangart, munert, mungaitch

Acacia acuminata

wattle (jam tree)

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trunk, pale and smooth, with some bark attached

trunk with shaggy bark

leaves

buds & flowers

nuts

Eucalyptus wandoo

wandoo

wandoo

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buds, flowers & glossy green leaf

nuts

daarwet, wolung, yandee

Eucalyptus loxophleba

York gum

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female tree with flowers and cones

she-oak

kondil, kulli, kwell

Allocasuarina campestris

male tree with anthers

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Eucalyptus salubris

gimlet

bark may be differently coloured, depending on the season

nuts

nardarak, ngarrip

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Acorn banksia

Banksia prionotes

manyret

Quairading banksia (matchstick banksia)

Flowering spike

Nut, with open follicles

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Quandong (sandalwood)

wongup, dumbari

Santalum acuminatum

fruit

thickened leaves

Photo – Vivienne Hansen, John Horsfall

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Xylomelum angustifolium

Woody pear (sandplain)

Flowering spikes

dumbung, janjin, danja, koongal

Photo - DBCA

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Use tally counting

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  • COUNTING TREES

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  • RECORDING ANIMALS

invertebrates

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  • HOW TO CATCH THEM
  • ..arranged in lines
  • dig them in with lid on…
  • Start here

A4

A1

A2

A3

B4

B3

C4

C3

C2

B2

B1

C4

  • leave open with lid nearby
  • with a pittrap

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  • HOW TO LOOK AT THEM

Examining invertebrates in pittraps at Woodlands PS (Yr 1). Photo - Je

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  • HOW TO IDENTIFY THEM
  • Using the Dino-Lite (Basic AM2111) - portable USB digital microscope
  • Provides a permanent record on Class computer for later study
  • using the Harriscope

See TOOLBOX

  • using CSIRO key at:

www.ento.csiro.au/education/key/couplet_01.html

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  • TESTING A PREDICTION
  • Did we find the same animals in each trap?
  • Do we think that our trap design helped us to find this result?
  • Was it a fair test?

For discussion about the trap design

  • Was the area around each trap the same?

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  • HOW TO SHOW DATA

Coolbellup Comm. School, Yr 4

Photo – Tanya Miller

..with graphs

Beaconsfield PS, Yr 4 Photo - Ursula Rodrigues

Adam Road PS, Yr 4

Photo – Kerrilyn Bradshaw

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…with an ecogram

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Yr 1 Woodlands PS Photo, Jenny Russell

Yrs 1/2 Mt Pleasant PS

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Year 4/5, Coolbellup Community School

Photo, Tanya Miller

Year 4, Adam Road PS. Photo, Kerrilyn Bradshaw

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  • MEASURE BIODIVERSITY

Site B

Compare the data – using the graphs

Site A

Which area is the more biodiverse?

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  • COMPARE THE NUMBER OF SPECIES

In Site B, more spiders and ants, but a smaller number of species

Therefore, Site A is the more biodiverse

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