Premium Resources: Biodiversity

There are QM Loans Premium learning resources that link to Science, Biology and Geography curricula:

• Sun, Sand, Salt, Survival: adaptations to diverse island environments
• What’s on the Menu: feeding relationships in diverse island environments

The loan period for Premium resources is 4 weeks. Borrowing costs apply. A 50% discount applies for QM Loans subscribers. Borrowers are responsible for and for the cost of transporting loans.

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Sun, Sand, Salt, Survival

Compare 5 environments encountered on a walk across South Stradbroke Island: the mangrove shore, swamp, sandy beach, frontal dune, and mixed woodland. Explore relationships between organisms, selection pressures, human impacts and survival mechanisms. Use for pre or post field trip or local area study.

Kit contains 5 habitat display panels with 45 flora and fauna specimens. Descriptor cards for each specimen feature species data with information on adaptations and feeding relationships. Best beak activity and teacher notes are included.

What’s on the Menu?

Investigate feeding relationships in a woodland environment. Classify organisms and build food webs to explore the importance of biodiversity in an ecosystem. Use as a model for developing webs of local environments.

Kit contains specimens of 20 flora and fauna woodlands species. Descriptor cards for each specimen feature species data with information on adaptations and feeding relationships. Food web activity and teacher notes are included.

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