Nangak Tamboree Wildlife Sanctuary

On Wednesday, the Grade 3/4 students went to Latrobe University's Nangak Tamboree Wildlife Sanctuary. While they were there they completed four activities. 

• Looking for water bugs, using a net to scoop up some water from the wetland. Putting it into a container and waiting to see what bugs could seen. Most of the bugs were tiny and hard to see. One group caught a tadpole but then let it go again.
• Next they took the bugs into a classroom and looked at them under a microscope, trying to identify them. It was hard to see them because they kept swimming around. They looked really cool. 
• Another activity was working in a classroom to create a food web for the animals that live in the sanctuary. Learning about how an animal gets eaten by another animal, it gets the energy from it.
• The last activity was a walk through part of the sanctuary. There were lots of River Red Gums and saw the difference between one planted 50 years ago and one planted around 500 years ago. The emus live there and were very curious and came to see what was happening.

“We saw an emu and it followed us around and pecked the trees. It was really good”  Lacey S

“We used microscopes to look at the water bugs. They looked really creepy up close.”  Indi

“I loved seeing the waterbugs and how big they looked under the microscope.” Millie

“I loved catching the bugs with the net. We got lots of little ones.” Cooper

“I caught a big waterbug and some small ones. It was cool looking at them through the microscope.” Rhys

“At the excursion my favourite part was catching the bugs.”  Kylie

“I really liked the walk because we saw an emu and I liked inspecting the bugs under the microscopes.” Adelia

“I like the excursion and looking at the emu.” Mawi

“I learnt a lot at the excursion. I didn’t know that waterbugs existed.”  Tilly

“I caught a bloodworm. I didn’t know they were a thing.”  Estelle

“I liked looking through the microscopes. The blue water mites were really cool!”  Eva