Easter Bilbies’ Secrets - Stage 1

Teacher checklist

Cost - $10.00per student, no GST. Confirm numbers 2 weeks before excursion. Invoice will be based on confirmation.

Name tags - reusable and pinned on.

School to organise–classes split if needed (3 sessions per day, max of 30 students per session

Space requirements – the program needs to be set up for the day in a ground-level space such as the school hall or a ground-level classroom.If two days are booked the equipment needs to be left overnight.

Furniture requirements - please provide either 2 x trestle tables or 8 x student desks for the stamping activity, 2 x chairs and drying racks or newspaper for drying the pencil cases.(The beading and colouring activities will take place on the floor.)

Cancellations - less than two weeks notice $100. This does not apply to cancellations due to weather.

Medical or special needs - please notify Field of Mars EEC staff.

Timetable – start and finish times are indicative only. When booking, please inform us of your school bell times. The timetable will be adjusted according to your bell times.

Times / Classes
9.00 – 10.00 / Class 1
10.05 – 11.05 / Class 2 (NB 5 mins into recess)
11.00-– 11.25 / Recess
11.30 – 12.30 / Class 3

Learning Activities

Through the sharing of the hybrid text Bilby Secrets, the students will be introduced to the habitat, life stages and diet of bilbies. The hybrid text features and use of action verbs will be highlighted in the reading.

Through photographs and video footage on iPads or the IWB bilby facts will be related to secret nocturnal Australian animals that visit the schoolyard and students’ backyards at night, their behaviour, diet and habitats. The students will also be shown a live leaf-litter invertebrate such as a bush cockroach.

To reinforce the diet of bilbies and bandicoots, the students will hand-stamp a calico pencil case using fabric ink and rubber stamps of invertebrates. They will also thread a beaded caterpillar key ring and colour a postcard of local nocturnal animals.

The session will conclude with an Easter bilby story linking bilbies to Easter in Australia.

Supporting Resources

We will lend each grade a paperback copy of the picture book Bilby Secrets by EdelWignell and Mark Jackson for further sharing and analysis. This is available to purchase for $20 and can be added to the school invoice. Alternatively it can be mailed back to Field of Mars EEC early Term 2.

Bilby resource pack – fact sheets and blackline masters (old but potentially useful)

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Syllabus Links

Environmental Education Objectives

Students will develop:

knowledge and understandings about:

  • the nature and function of ecosystems and how they are interrelated (K1)

skills in:

  • adoptingbehaviours and practices that protect the environment (S5)

values and attitudes relating to:

  • a respect for life on Earth (V1)
  • a commitment to act for the environment by supporting long term solutions to environmental problems. (V3)

Science K-10 Outcomes
A student:
ST1-10LW describes external features, changes in and growth of living things
ST1-11LW describes ways that different places in the environment provide for the needs of living things / Science K-10 Content
Living things grow, change and have offspring similar to themselves (ACSSU030)
  • compare the appearance of adult living things to their offspring
Living things live in different places where their needs are met (ACSSU211)
  • describe how some different places in a local land or aquatic environment provide for the needs of the animals or plants that live there

English K-10 Outcomes
A student
EN1-8B recognizes that there are different kinds of texts when reading an viewing and shows an awareness of purpose, audience and subject matter / English K10 Content
Understand and apply knowledge of language forms and features
  • Understand how text structure contributes to the meaning of texts

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