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• Tom the Tortoise
• Tadpoles raised by Henschke kids

Visit ErinEarth with your school

You can visit ErinEarth with your school (Kindergarten to Year 6).  See the fun other kids have had on their visit.

Your teacher can get information on how to arrange a visit here.

Explore ErinEarth

Explore, look around, find our plants and animals. Take a walk around ErinEarth.

Fruit and vegetables

What part of the plant are you eating? Is it a seed, a fruit, the stem, a root, or what? Find out with Supermarket Botany.

Tom's Bird Pages

Tom's local bird list. Tom Burley is a student at Kildare College who has studied birds in Wagga Wagga for several years. Check your knowledge of local birds against Tom's list.

An Owl Story - the calls of boobooks once were common around the ErinEarth neighbourhood, but where have they gone and why? The owl story tells you.

Another Tom - Tom the Tortoise

Tom the Tortoise was rescued as a very young, very small tortoise. He lived in a tank cared for by a family for 6 years. He grew and became too big for his tank. His family decided that Tom would be happier in the dam at ErinEarth and released him here in October 2010.

See pictures of Tom being released.

School Visits

Here are some of the schools who have visited ErinEarth. Teachers can arrange visits - details are in "For Teachers - School visits".

Mater Dei Second Class Visit

ErinEarth welcomed Mater Dei's Second Class together with their teachers and parents on 23 July 2008. Beautiful sunshine made the garden warm despite the cold night. The kids were intrigued by ice on the birdbath.

Click here to see photos of the visit.

Henschke Primary School

The Kindergarten class from Henschke visited ErinEarth in November 2008.

Click here to see photos of their visit.

Henschke kids visited again in 2010 and collected some tadpoles. These grew in the classroom and started growing legs. They were released back into the ErinEarth dam on 2 December 2010. Click here to see their release.

Note for parents and teachers

The Kids' pages are for primary school children, providing material to complement the environmental curriculum from K to 6. We plan to have a "table" where kids can post questions, send photos or their observations. Activities will be grouped for each age: years 1-2, 3-4 and 5-6.

We are planning these pages to be exciting and fun places for kids to visit and come back to. We welcome your suggestions for content and presentation - please use the contact page.

Details of the primary schools' environmental curriculum, educational resources and details for arranging school visits are in the "For Teachers" sections.