Transcript Australia - Primary Grades Class Page

Australia is the only
continent that is also a
country and an island.
Canberra is the capital of Australia. This is
the Parliament house in Canberra.
Australia’s flag has
the British Union
Flag, five stars for
the Southern Cross
constellation, and a
large star for the
commonwealth.
Australia’s Coats of Arm
It has a kangaroo and an emu; wattle
blossoms; a shield with coats of arms of the
six states; and a star for the Commonwealth.
The Five States in Australia
Northern
Territory
Queensland
Western
Australia
South
Australia
New South
Wales
Tasmania
The
Look of
the
Land
These hills are considered mountains in
Australia.
The Great Western Plateau
The plants here are mostly drought-resistant mulga scrub.
The Gibber Desert
This desert gets about 5 inches of rain a year.It
is covered with wind polished stones. Gibber is
the aboriginal word for stones.
The Eastern
Highlands
This is one of
the many water
falls in
Southern
Queensland
that pours into
a mossy canyon.
City Life
This is a
busy
railroad
station in
Perth.
Perth is
a city on
the
southwest
coast in
Australia.
This is the
city of
Melbourne.
Almost All
of
Australia’s
people live in
cities.
These cities
have shops,
restaurants,
and tall
buildings
just like
those in the
U.S.
This is the Sydney Opera House. It is one of the
most famous buildings in Sydney.
Life on the Cattle
and Sheep Station
The best-known job in Australia is farming.
The wide, open spaces of the countryside are
the perfect place for raising animals such as
cattle and sheep.
The Outback
It is mainly deserts and grasslands on which cattle
and sheep graze.
Sheep and cows are raised by the ranchers in
Australia.
This man has a sheep station in the Outback. A
station is like a ranch. He has thousands of sheep
on his station. His workers uses dogs to find his
sheep, and they often ride motorcycles to round up
the sheep.
Aborigines have lived in Australia for thousands of
years. Some of them work in the Outback and
have their own cattle stations.
Much of south and central Australia is very hot and
dry. It is called the “Outback.” Alice Spring is the
biggest town in the Outback.
Aborigines are
descendants of
Australia's first
settlers. They
came to Australia
thousands of years
ago. Their history
is similar to the
American Indians.
Most Aborigines live
in rural areas. But
recently more young
people are moving to
the cities.
Aborigine boys
playing at corroborees
just as you play at
doing grown-up
things. Corroborees
are special tribal
dances where the
aborigines retell
stories. The dancers
chant and stamp their
feet to the sound of
pipes called
didjeridooos.
Long ago,
aborigines
believe the
earth was flat
and empty.
Then, their
world of light
and dark, rocks
and plants,
birds and
animals was
formed by the
deeds of a race
of mysterious
creatures. This
was the creation
of Dreamtime.
They drew these
pictures on bark
and cave walls.
A Bark Painting
This painting
was done on the
inside of the
bark of a
Eucalyptus tree.
Can you find
two kangaroos,
a marsupial rat,
a goanna, an
emu, a long
neck turtle,and
a straw bag?
Aboriginal Bark Painting
The Ayer’s Rock belongs to the Aborigines. Their
name for it is Uluru. The cave painting done by the
Aborigines in the caves at Uluru are very famous.
The Ayers Rock is the largest one-piece rock
in the world.
This is
one of the
cave
drawing
on the
cave wall
at Uluru
(or Ayer’s
Rock.)
Work
In
Australia
Cowboys from
Victoria
The wool and meat
from these animals
will be sold to
people all over the
world.
This is an
opal miner
in Cober
Pedy.
Barbeque in Australia-(Salad, steak, drink)
How does it compare to our cookouts?
Cattleman cooks outdoors
in Victoria.
Cooking
Noodles at
a market in
Darwin.
Australians eat
many of the
same foods we
do. Meat,
potatoes, and
bread are all
favorite dishes.
Fresh vegetables
and fruit are
popular, too.
They also like
foods from other
countries.
Pastimes
Camel Race
at Alice
Springs
Lifeguards
Yacht Race
Team sports are very popular. Rugby is very
rough and dangerous. Cricket is a little like
American baseball.The men below are playing
football.
School in Australia
Australian
children
start
school
when they
are about
five years
old. They
learn
math,
reading,
science,
and
writing
just as
you do.
Students in
the outback
live to far
away to
attend regular
schools.
Instead, they
learn through
schools of the
air. Students
receive and
turn in their
homework by
mail.
Teachers and
students talk
to each other
on two–way
radios.
Animals in
Australia
Marsupials give birth
to tiny,
underdeveloped young.
The young continue to
develop, often in
pouches, or folds of
skin , on their
mother’s belly. Many
of Australian mammals
belong to this group.
Marsupials feed at
night.
Mountain Possum
The Koalas eat eucalyptus leaves and sleep in the
branches of eucalyptus trees.
With her baby
safe in her lap,
the mother koala
reaches for food.
The marsupials
eat only the
leaves of the
eucalyptus trees.
The leaves give
them all the
water they need.
They live in the
treetops of the
eucalyptus tree.
The
“Wallaby”
is part of
the
kangaroo
family, but
smaller.
This
wallaby is
unusual.
Do you
know why?
During a
quarrel –real
or just in
play- one
kangaroo uses
it tail as a
prop while it
tries to kick
the other.
Kangaroos
usually lives
together
peacefully.
The baby joey returns
to its mother’s pouch
for food and
protection.
Kangaroos often get hit by cars on the roads, so
cars have “roo” bars in front of their engines. This
bar protects the engines and lights if a kangaroos
suddenly hop into the road.
Patches of white
mark the thick
woolly coat of a
spotted cuscus.
This round-faced
animal has a
yellowish nose and
bulging yellow eyes.
He uses his tail as
an extra hand. A
cuscus is a marsupial
about the size of a
cat. Some people
mistake them for
monkeys.
Built for burrowing, the wombat waddles on
short, powerful legs. Wombats use mostly
their strong front legs to dig tunnels. The
wombat is a marsupials.
The glider is a
member of the
possum family. A
glider stretches out
flaps of skin that
catch the air the
way wings do. It
can travel the
length of a football
field. It feeds at
night on leaves,
fruit, sap and
insects.
Monotremes are mammals that lay
eggs. Platypuses and echidnas are
the only monotremes.
A platypus,
is a strange
animal that
has a bill
and webbed
feet like a
duck,fur
like a otter,
and a tail
like a
beaver. It
hatches it
babies from
eggs.
A young echidna lies
curled in a flap of
skin on its mother’s
belly. It won’t be
there much longer.
Its spines have
begun to appear.
Once they start
poking the mother,
she will put the
your echidna in a
hollow log or among
rocks and care for
it there.
A flock of emus race through a field. These
huge birds run fast- as fast as 30 miles an
hour- and far. But they can’t fly.
Moving gently,
a male emu
tends a nest
full of green
eggs. After
the female
emu lays the
eggs, the
male takes
over. He
hatches them
and takes
care of the
chicks
The female bowerbird watches the male. He
decorates the nest with bits of colored
materials.
The
frilled lizard
strikes a
scary pose
atop a termite
mound. This
reptile may
grow up to 3
feet long.
An angry frill-necked lizard ruffles its frills to
frighten an enemy.
This is the Tasmanian devil. A disturbed
Tasmanian devil snarls and will freeze in a
threatening posture and stay that way until
the enemy goes away. They eat mostly dead
animals.
The Great
Barrier
Reef
It is the world’s
largest coral
reef. The reef
is about 1,250
miles. Its
beauty attracts
many skin
divers.
Great Barrier Reef: This is what you might see
through a glass-bottom boat.
A female weedy sea dragon and
her young drift through the water,
pushed along by transparent fins.
Bye! I hope you liked your
visit to Australia.