Let’s find out about NSW threatened animals: an Australian Curriculum education resource for years 1–6
In this education resource, we describe 28 animals that are threatened in New South Wales. They represent a range of animal types that live in different places with diverse ecosystems. Some rely on specific habitat features in the environment to eat, breed and survive.
Section 1 shows how the exploration of threatened species is linked to numerous learning areas across the Australian Curriculum. It also provides some ideas for activities and questions associated with the animals.
Section 2 tells you a little about each animal and links to more information on the Environment and Heritage website, where you will also find maps and photos of the species.
The resource is supported by a series of drawings by nature artist Tallulah Cunningham and we provide ideas for activities and questions associated with the animals and the drawings.
Download the drawings:
- Barrier Range dragon and pale-headed snake (PDF 3.5MB)
- Beach stone-curlew and little tern (PDF 2.3MB)
- Brush-tailed rock-wallaby and koala (PDF 4MB)
- Eastern bentwing-bat and powerful owl (PDF 6MB)
- Eastern osprey and malleefowl (PDF 3.2MB)
- Glossy black-cockatoo and grey-headed flying-fox (PDF 2.8MB)
- Grassland earless dragon and regent honeyeater (PDF 2.8MB)
- Green and golden bell frog and loggerhead turtle (PDF 310KB)
- Hooded plover and superb parrot (PDF 2MB)
- Long-nosed potoroo and spotted-tailed quoll (PDF 2.8MB)
- Mountain pygmy possum and squirrel glider (PDF 3.2MB)
- Pied oystercatcher and Rosenbergs goanna (PDF 4.4MB)
- Plains wanderer and scarlet robin (PDF 2.7MB)
- Sloanes froglet and southern corroboree frog (PDF 3.1MB)
The threatened species animal faces can be used to explore the following learning areas from the Australian Curriculum.
| Sustainability | |
|---|---|
| OI.1 | The biosphere is a dynamic system providing conditions that sustain life on Earth. |
| OI.9 | Sustainable futures result from actions designed to preserve and/or restore the quality and uniqueness of environments. |
| Science | ||
|---|---|---|
| Year 1 | ACSSU017 | Living things have a variety of external features |
| Year 1 | ACSSU211 | Living things live in different places where their needs are met |
| Year 3 | ACSSU044 | Living things can be grouped on the basis of observable features and can be distinguished from non-living things |
| Year 4 | ACSSU073 | Living things depend on each other and the environment to survive |
| Year 5 | ACSSU043 | Living things have structural features and adaptations that help them to survive in their environment |
| Year 6 | ACSSU094 | The growth and survival of living things are affected by physical conditions of their environment |
| Humanities and social sciences | ||
|---|---|---|
| Year 4 | ACHASSK088 | The importance of environments, including natural vegetation, to animals and people |
| Year 4 | ACHASSK090 | The use and management of natural resources and waste, and the different views on how to do this sustainably |