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The Manual: Butterfly Gardening in South Australia

The Manual: Butterfly Gardening in South Australia

TLF ID A002405

This Manual assists teachers and students establish butterfly gardens in their schoolgrounds. It provides information about butterfly lifecycles, habitats, adaptations, and requirements to live. The manual also provides local Indigenous perspectives of butterflies, along with useful links to websites. The manual accompanies the Science Inquiry units of work on Butterfly Gardening.

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Educational details

Educational value
  • Teaching and learning
  • Professional learning
Year level

F; 1; 2; 3; 4; 5; 6

Topics Aboriginal languages Adaptation (Evolution) Animal behaviour Growth (Animals) Environmental management Plant structure and function Animal structure and function Sheltering behaviour Habitats Food chains Animal reproduction Living things Scientists Decomposition (Living things) Ecosystems Plant reproduction Data analysis Breeding cycles Butterflies Perception Consumers (Food chains) Curiosity Scientific inquiry Observations (Data) Sunlight Water Physical characteristics (Animals) Plant growth Predictions (Science) Lifestyles Patterns Similarity (Classification) Discovery (Observations) Research questions Physical characteristics (Plants)
Learning area
  • Science

Other details

Contributors
  • Author
  • Person: Naomi Findlay
  • Description: Author
  • Contributor
  • Person: Naomi Findlay
  • Description: Author
  • Publisher
  • Name: Australian Association for Environmental Education SA Chapter
  • Organization: Australian Association for Environmental Education SA Chapter
  • Description: Publisher
  • Address: South Australia, AUSTRALIA
  • URL: https://www.aaeesa.org.au/
  • Resource metadata contributed by
  • Name: Education Services Australia Ltd
  • Organisation: Education Services Australia Ltd
  • Address: AUSTRALIA
  • URL: www.esa.edu.au
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Learning Resource Type
  • Downloadable
  • Text
Rights
  • All images have been used with permission or sourced under Creative Commons Licence. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC 4.0) Please quote the following if adapting or copying the material. Copyright: Australian Association for Environmental Education SA Chapter October 2021