Sun / Sand / Salt / Survival

This kit presents a fascinating array of objects representing 45 species and 5 key environments encountered on a transect of South Stradbroke Island

If you can't access the real objects from Museum Loans, download the Habitat Displays and Specimen Cards with photos, feeding relationships and environmental adaptations for each species.

What's in the boxes:

• 45 Specimen Cards (double-sided)

• sandy beach - download (PDF 568kB)
• frontal dune - download (PDF 439kB)
• mixed woodland - download (PDF 516kB)
• swamp - download (PDF 656kB)
• mangrove shore - download (PDF 629kB)

• 5 fold-out Habitat Displays (each 3 x A4)

• sandy beach - Graphics (PDF 904kB) Text only (PDF 88kB)
• frontal dune - Graphics (PDF 1MB) Text only (PDF 93kB)
• mixed woodland - Graphics (PDF 754kB) Text only (PDF 92kB)
• swamp - Graphics (PDF 936kB) Text only (PDF 90kB)
• mangrove shore - Graphics (PDF 632kB) Text only (PDF 92kB)

• ‘Best Beak’ activity:
• Picture book: “Best Beak in Boonaroo Bay” by Narelle Oliver
• Pack of six bird skulls - online version 

• “South Stradbroke Island” by Lindy Salter, a guide to the nature and history of the island 

• Specimens:

Abiotic

• Farming artefacts
• Beach Flotsam
• Mangrove Shore Flotsam
• Midden sample
• Stone artefact

Plants:

• Beach Spinifex
• Blue Tongue/Melastoma
• Bungwall fern
• Cabbage Palm
• Coastal She-oak
• Cottonwood
• Coastal Wattle
• Forest Red Gum
• Grey Mangrove
• Mistletoe
• Orange Mangrove
• Paperbark Tea-tree
• Pandanus
• Saw-leaf Banksia
• Warrigal Greens

Invertebrates:

• Bag shelter moth
• Sand snail
• Eugarie/Pipi
• Hibiscus Harlequin Beetle
• King worm
• Mangrove cicada
• Mud dauber wasp
• Mud whelk
• Razor Grinder Cicada
• Rhinoceros beetle
• Scorpion fly
• Soldier crab
• Sydney Rock Oyster
• Spiny Leaf Insect

Vertebrates

• Agile Wallaby
• Bandicoot
• Bearded dragon
• Black duck
• Brahminy kite
• Bubble pond snail
• Carpet python – skin
• Carpet python – skull
• Case Moth
• Dolphin
• Fig bird or Oriole
• Green Turtle - eggs and shell
• Green Turtle - skull
• Humpback whale
• Pied Cormorant or Little Pied Cormorant
• Sacred Kingfisher
• Squirrel glider
• White-faced Heron

• Teachers' Guide - CD-ROM and online