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Page Last Updated:
Tuesday, 17 July 2012
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Home>Council Services>Environment>Gardens for Wildlife (G4W)>KinderGardens for Wildlife>>Milestones>Lizard Lounge
Why?
The most common urban garden lizards in Knox are small skinks that mainly eat insects, worms and pests such as snails thereby minimising the damage such pests can do in our garden habitats.
Lizards, as cold blooded animals, need the energy from the sun to aid movement and digestion. They achieve this by basking in the sun or lying on warm surfaces. When they are in danger of overheating they seek shelter under vegetation, below ground or in water. To provide the type of habitat lizards need, you will need to have a warm, sheltered area with mulch, rocks and ground cover within the playground as described below in the criteria selection.
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| Criteria | | Set aside a warm sheltered corner of the playground covered with a thick layer of mulch
Furnish with some logs, fallen branches, leaf litter, ground cover plants such as native grasses, native daisies
Provision of large flat, smooth edged rocks for lizard sunning
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Teacher's Resources
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 | Storybooks suggestions | | Songs/songcards with illustrations | | Poetry/rhymes | | Discussions, for example, ‘The benefits of having lizards in your playground’ | | And, ‘What lizards need to have a happy life in your playground’ | | Incursions eg: Andrew Wagner’s Australian Wildlife Lectures, lives in The Basin, Phone: 9762 7671 www.scott.com.au | | Excursions eg: Healesville Sanctuary www.zoo.org.au/Education/ The Bright Eyes kit contains books, puzzles, skin coverings, puppets, music. A useful resource booklet accompanies the kit.
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| Finger puppet eg: frilled neck lizard puppets | | Large puppet eg: Goanna hand puppet | | Games eg: Australian Menagerie Game | | ‘Discovery Pack’ including binoculars, magnifying glasses, brush, scavenger hunt laminated sheet, clipboard, textas, journal | | Small Models of lizards for sandtray/natural material imaginative play | | Social story: ‘What to do if you find a lizard in the playground?’ Remember that lizards can die from stress if mistreated, so it is important to help the children understand how to protect lizards if found in the playground | | CD of photo’s, pictures, posters to identify different lizard species | | Non-fiction resource book eg: ‘Leaf Litter’
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