What's in the AUS 2023 Hanson Box
WHAT’S IN THE 2023 ROOTS & SHOOTS RESOURCE BOX?
The 2023 Roots & Shoots Australia Resource Box is the result of a partnership between the Jane Goodall Institute Australia’s Roots & Shoots movement, the Don Hanson Charitable Foundation and the Phillips Foundation.
One resource box was sent to 4,000 schools across Australia for the benefit of hundreds of thousands of Australian students.
The 2023 Roots & Shoots Australia Resource Box contains four specially-designed resources that cover a broad range of subjects in the national curriculum, including biology, English, art, geography, history, ecology, environmental sciences and natural history.
Each box contains:
- Living Landscapes Volume 2 – a journey through Australia’s rich and diverse First Nations cultures
- The rivers and wetlands of the Murray-Darling Basin
- Nature’s Tricks – How Animals and Plants use Disguises and Deception
- Amazing Ecosystems – A Journey Through Our Planet’s Spectacular Ecology
An overview of the contents is provided below.
Authors: Stewart McPherson and Robert Irving
ISBN: 978-0-6458789-2-9
Pages: 160
Images: 300
Page size: 240 x 285 mm (landscape)
Cover format: Hardcover
Through archaeology, we can unravel the mysteries of the past.
By studying artefacts, architecture and other sources of information in the archaeological record, we can explore moments in history, and glimpse the vanished lives of past people and their civilisations.
From the dawn of mankind to the great empires, kingdoms and dynasties in world history, each chapter has left its mark for archaeologists to decipher and study.
Understanding this treasure trove of history is the greatest detective story of all time, and is essential for our future. For our past offers lessons from human experience and wisdom that we can learn from.
This book aims to inspire awe for archaeology and history.
Authors: Abbie Mitchell
ISBN: 978-0-6458789-1-2
Pages: 106
Images: 300
Page size: 240 x 285 mm (landscape)
Cover format: Hardcover
To you and me, a tree hollow is just a hole, cavity or tunnel in a tree or branch. But to an animal, that hollow may be a bedroom, hiding place, nursery or shelter. For more than 340 species of Australian animals, a hollow is a home. It is the ultimate tree house!
Hollows come in all shapes and sizes. It might seem obvious that the larger the animal, the bigger the hollow it needs. And the larger the hollow, the longer it takes to form. A hollow big enough for Australia’s largest owl, the mighty powerful owl, can take hundreds of years to develop.
Hollows can be found in both live and dead trees. A tree that appears lifeless may actually have a whole bunch of different animals living within it!
This book takes a peek inside the mysterious world of tree hollows. Find out how hollows are created, and discover many of the creatures that call them home. Meet some scientists who spend their time hollow hunting, and learn how to spot hollows and encourage habitat for hollow-dependent animals.
Authors: Stewart McPherson and Robert Irving
ISBN: 978-0-6458789-3-6
Pages: 160
Images: 300
Page size: 240 x 285 mm (landscape)
Cover format: Hardcover
The ecology of our world’s oceans is amazing: Coral reefs, sea grass meadows, kelp forests, open ocean, Hydrothermal vents, cold polar waters and the deep sea.
In this book, we will explore many of the marine ecosystems and species that make our oceans so biologically rich. It is impossible to explore and fully explain every habitat niche in 160 pages. However, the intention of this work is to open young readers’ minds to some of the main marine ecosystems which are found across our world.
As we journey through our world’s different marine ecosystems and habitats, many of the occupant animals and plants are introduced and documented.
Authors: Abbie MItchell
ISBN: 978-0-645878-90-5
Pages: 185
Images: 350
Page size: 240 x 285 mm (landscape)
Cover format: Hardcover
Planet for Life is an extraordinary learning resource for an extraordinary time. We know of so many of the threats that we face right now from severe droughts to destructive floods, punishing cyclones to catastrophic bushfires; not to mention the loss of biodiversity. We also know that some of the solutions for these challenges lie with the choices that we all make in our communities to make a difference for a better tomorrow every single day.
This book provides an optimistic resource for young people to forge ahead with solutions to some of the biggest challenges we face. From thinking about how nature provides us all that we need for a healthy life, to understanding the needs of animals in local ecosystems and how our climate system functions, to thinking about different science knowledge systems; this book is a valuable educational tool for teachers and students to engage with ideas that they can deploy in their own communities.
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Also included in your 2020 Roots & Shoots Resource Box:
A cover letter from James Forbes, Chief Executive Officer of Roots & Shoots Australia.
After a full year of development and planning, the 4,000 * 2023 Roots & Shoots Resource Boxes were shipped to schools across Australia.
Each box weights approx. 5 kg, so in total, around 20 tonnes (20,000 kg!) of educational resources were sent!
Roots & Shoots Australia and the Don Hanson Charitable Foundation team really hopes that students and educators will enjoy the resources in the 2023 Roots & Shoots Resource Box!
To request next year’s Resource Box, click here.
About the AUS 2023 Hanson Box
The 2023 Roots & Shoots Australia Resource Box, created by the Jane Goodall Institute, the Don Hanson Charitable Foundation, and the Phillips Foundation, was sent to 4,000 schools nationwide and includes four interdisciplinary resources aligned with the national curriculum.
