Uploaded August 2025 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago
Learn about the features, habitat and behaviours of some truly peculiar Australian animals!
In this online learning session, your students join author Stephanie Owen Reeder and illustrator Ingrid Bartkowiak and engage closely with the text and artwork of their engaging and informative new book Peculiar Parents.
The session will include a range of engaging activities to learn more about Australian animal features, habitat and behaviours. Students will have the opportunity to hear from ecologists at Wildbark Learning Centre at Mulligans Flat and meet a furry family of New Holland Mice, a species now extinct throughout most of mainland Australia.
Students will complete a drawing activity to learn how to develop more accurate animal illustrations, and discuss how to improve their research and scientific observation skills. The content in this learning session is suitable for students in Year 3 to Year 6 and links with the Australian Curriculum V9 for Science, English and the Creative Arts.
Learn about the features, habitat and behaviours of some truly peculiar Australian animals!
In this online learning session, your students join author Stephanie Owen Reeder and illustrator Ingrid Bartkowiak and engage closely with the text and artwork of their engaging and informative new book Peculiar Parents.
The session will include a range of engaging activities to learn more about Australian animal features, habitat and behaviours. Students will have the opportunity to hear from ecologists at Wildbark Learning Centre at Mulligans Flat and meet a furry family of New Holland Mice, a species now extinct throughout most of mainland Australia.
Students will complete a drawing activity to learn how to develop more accurate animal illustrations, and discuss how to improve their research and scientific observation skills. The content in this learning session is suitable for students in Year 3 to Year 6 and links with the Australian Curriculum V9 for Science, English and the Creative Arts.
