NSWTR 2024 HR - Flipbook - Page 15
SPECIES GAME: CONSERVATION CRISIS!
GAME CARDS – PRIMARY – POSITIVE CARDS
CARD 1
CARD 2
You participate in Clean Up Australia Day to help create
a healthy habitat for wildlife.
You have long, grassy areas of the lawn covered with
clover flowers that attract bees. You leave old pieces
of wood there, too, where insects and lizards make
their home.
Add 1 more of each different plant and
animal you have in your ecosystem.
Add 4 more flowers, 2 more butterflies and 2 more bees,
and 1 lizard that comes in to eat the insects.
CARD 3
CARD 4
Your friends get together to build some possum boxes
for the park.
You help clean up rubbish and weeds from the beach
or river.
Add 2 more possums to your ecosystem and 1 shrub,
which has been nourished by the possum poo.
Add 3 shore birds to your ecosystem.
CARD 5
CARD 6
The spring weather has been perfect, with
plenty of warm sunshine and plenty of light rain.
You plant some herbs on your balcony or window box.
Add 2 of each of your plant species to your
ecosystem.
Add 2 more of each insect, 2 snails that like to eat
the herbs, and 1 lizard that comes in to eat the insects
and snails.
CARD 7
CARD 8
You install a pond in your garden to attract
the local frogs.
Your family has a compost bin, which you put in
your garden to promote healthy plant growth.
Add 2 frogs, 4 worms and 10 more insects to your
ecosystem, as well as a parrot and a koala, which
sometimes come to drink from the pond.
Add 4 worms and 2 flowers to your ecosystem.
CARD 9
CARD 10
You collect and use the water from showers and baths
to water your garden, instead of using tap water.
This reduces how much water you use.
With your friends and neighbours, you help remove weeds
from a bushland or park. This means there’s more space
for the plants and animals that live here to do better.
Add 1 tree, 1 shrub, 3 worms and 2 snails.
Add 1 flower, 1 shrub and 1 tree to your ecosystem.
Also add 1 possum and 1 owl that come to use the tree.
SPECIES SURVIVAL – MORE THAN JUST SUSTAINABILITY
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