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Grow Your Own Bunyip

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This activity links to the National Profiles, Level 1, Science.

Materials:

Eggshells
Cotton wool
Wheat seeds
Colouring-in materials
Wool
Egg carton

  • Draw wheat seeds
  • Boil eggs until solid and let cool
  • Cut the top off the eggshells and scoop out egg without breaking the shell
  • Decorate eggshell as an imaginary bunyip
  • Fill eggshell with damp cotton wool
  • Sprinkle wheat seed over cotton wool

Draw the changes in the seed over three weeks. Keep cotton wool damp.

National Profiles Level 1, Science

Earth and Beyond

A student

  • Identifies natural and built features in the local landscape

Life and living

A student

  • Identifies own body’s needs and the needs of various familiar animals and plants
  • Identifies the external parts of living things
  • Identifies the changes in familiar animals and plants over time

Working Scientifically

A student

  • Lists what is known about familiar situations and suggest questions and ideas or investigations
  • Carries out procedures and instructions that have a small number of steps
  • Talks about or draws or acts out observations and makes suggestions about what these could mean
  • Makes links between what they see and do in the classroom and everyday life
  • Identifies the way science is used in everyday life
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