Investigating kangaroos

Early Stage 1 and Stage 1 students have been learning factual information about kangaroos, after hearing the Aboriginal Dreaming story, How the kangaroos got their tails.


Newborn baby grey kangaroo – Attenborough – Life of mammals – BBC


Kangaroo boxing – Attenborough – Life of mammals – BBC

Previously, we had used these other useful Youtube clips, featuring a young joey learning to hop, and newborns in the pouch. Click here.

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?)