Video clips on the hop

We are really enjoying the ease of finding short video clips via Encarta for Kids CD-ROM, and online at Youtube.

As a followup to last week’s Aboriginal Dreaming story, How the kangaroos got their tails, Early Stage 1 and Stage 1 students are investigating facts about kangaroos.

Kangaroo joeys playing:

This amazing footage of newborn joeys in their mothers’ pouches:

A trained(?) boxing kangaroo on TV – not so natural? (Disturbing; perhaps more useful for older students writing persuasive texts?)