Royal Botanic Gardens

This excursion has been organised for students in Stage 2, grades 3 and 4. The excursion will be taking place at The Royal Botanic Gardens with a focus on the rich Indigenous history and culture of Australia. The main focus for this excursion brings together outcomes and content from the Australian Curriculum and New South Wales Syllabus. In accordance with the cross curriculum priority “Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Histories” students will be provided with opportunities to deepen their

The movement of Virginia Woolf 's "Kew Gardens" is quite the mutineer towards the traditional writing format of a beginning, middle and ending. Although, the story does eventually end, Woolf creates a space in time within this story 's reality where there really is no beginning, nor a way to end it. We just become in the moment, infinitely moving through space and time, observing all tiny details around us. To analyze this story, we have to think of it as an abstract painting, and assume there will

Bukit Timah located in the Central Region of Singapore. The word “bukit” and “timah” means hill and tin in Malay. It was an often mistaken belief that the area holds tin, however the place has nothing to do with tin. Some have surmised that the word “Timah” was a European blooper for Temak, the Malay name for a genus of trees growing in the tall rain forest. Bukit Timah has eight sub-zones with 1.732 hectares of total area and it is renowned for being the highest hill in Singapore which stands 163

House (fig.), with an advanced system to control temperature, ventilation, and moisture to simulate the environment of being 2000 feet in the air. Engagement and education with the general public, particularly children, is another priority of Kew Gardens today. In 2004, “Climbers and Creepers”, an interactive learning environment encourages children to discover botany, ecology, animals, and the environment. Further, in 2008, Marks Barfield architects, the masterminds behind the London Eye (fig),

As an immigrant to Australia, Aboriginal and Culturally Responsive Pedagogies unit helped me in connecting to the non-westernized Aboriginal culture of Australia. As an Australian teacher, I will have Aboriginal students in my class, and thus it requires me to have an authentic understanding of Australian history and Aboriginal culture. The first most learning from this unit was that Elders of local Aboriginal community undertakes ‘Welcome to Country’ ceremony and ‘Acknowledgement of Country’ can

south wales popularly known as ‘The Snowies’, The Coober Peddy which is famous as the ’Opal Capital of the World’, The Great Barrier Reef etc. and along with these the man made wonders such as Sydney Opera House, Sydney Harbor Bridge, Royal Botanic Gardens, Royal Exhibition Buildings, Shrine of Remembrance etc. Apart from the Sydney Opera House and the Sydney Harbor Bridge all other famous places which are stated above were situated within the Melbourne city, which is the second hugely populated

Title: The Effects of Freezing on Germination Rate Introduction: The purpose of this experiment was to discover which species out of three seeds would have the germination rate be the most negatively affected after being frozen for several days. Seed banks store frozen seeds which implied that freezing seeds doesn’t cause any major damage to the seeds. However, some species of seeds would probably be more resistant to being frozen than others. Seeds are native to and are grown in many different

specific subject, location or a notable person, categories include: fine arts, applied arts, craft, archaeology, anthropology and ethnology, history, cultural history, science, technology, children’s museums, natural history, botanical and zoological gardens. Within these categories many museums specialize further e.g. museums of modern art, folk art, local history

Australia's largest cities, is best known for its harbourfront Sydney Opera House, with a distinctive sail-like design. Massive Darling Harbour and the smaller Circular Quay port are hubs of waterside life, with the arched Harbour Bridge and esteemed Royal Botanic Garden nearby. Sydney Tower’s outdoor platform, the Sky walk, offers 360-degree views of the city and suburbs. There are many problems in Sydney Australia but the main one which could eventually be a major problem is overpopulation. Sydney since

Over a millennium ago The Great Wall Of China was erected to stop hostile armies from invading the landscape. Now, Africa's farmlands are under attack from a far worse invader: the Sahara Desert. Twenty nations are coming together in an effort to plant a living defense system made of trees, called, the Great Green Wall of Africa. download As the world's largest non-polar desert, the Sahara is actually expanding. It is estimated that, by 2025, two-thirds of Africa's arable land will be covered in