RIC-6277 I can dance the Barramundi

A BIRD’S-EYE VIEW
Preparation
• Collect pictures of Uluru.
Presentation
• Share and discuss the pictures of Uluru with
the class.
• Say the rhyme with the actions for the class.
Additional activities/information
• Uluru is a giant rock towering over the desert
in the centre of Australia.
• Uluru is 348 metres high.
• The Uluru-Kata Tjuta National Park is
included in the United Nations World
Heritage list.
• Have the students close their eyes and read
the following to them. They can then draw
some of the images they imagined.
– Imagine you are a wedge-tailed eagle
flying over Uluru for a bird’s-eye view
of the colours of the rock. By day,
Uluru is a brilliant red against the blue
Australian sky, but as the light changes
Uluru becomes the colours of the desert
– yellow, orange, brown, purple. In the
evening, Uluru turns grey then black
under the starry sky.
– Fly over Uluru for a bird’s-eye view of its
surface. Uluru is covered with lumps and
holes—huge boulders, caves, potholes
and hidden hollows. The scarred
surface of Uluru is flaky and scaly like
a dinosaur’s skin. Uluru is marked with
grooves that look like cracks running
down its sides. When black storm clouds
gather and lightning and thunder and
wind fill the sky, the showers of rain
which run down the grooves become
waterfalls tumbling and crashing to the
ground.
– Fly over Uluru for a bird’s-eye view of
the creatures that live there. Insects are
• The class claps the beat while saying the
rhyme.
• The class says the rhyme with the actions.
quietly at work. Ants, butterflies, bees,
wasps, termites, grasshoppers and
spiders forage, build nests, mounds and
hives, collect pollen and wild honey and
spin webs and cocoons.
– Fly over Uluru for a bird’s-eye view of
reptiles which live there. Among them
is a blue-tongued lizard with a waddling
walk, rummaging for its tucker. On a flat
warm rock, a large snake sunbakes. It is
a mulga or king brown snake, venomous
and dangerous. From its rocky outcrop,
the perentie, the largest lizard in
Australia, hunts mice and wrens and
skinks.
– Fly over Uluru for a bird’s-eye view and
listen to the birds—the noisy, screeching
parrots, the mournful cawing of crows,
early morning carolling of magpies and
the hooting of boobook owls. You will
see pink cockatoos, turquoise wrens,
red-capped robins and green and yellow
budgerigars.
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– Fly over Uluru and on your way home
to roost, glimpse a hopping mouse.
It appears cautiously from its burrow
to forage for insects and seeds for its
evening meal. Euros, red kangaroos and
black-footed wallabies gather around a
waterhole to drink at dusk, and night falls
silently on Uluru.
• Discuss what Australian animals the students
like to see when they go to a wildlife
sanctuary, national park or zoo.
I can dance the barramundi
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