Resources
Resources for schools & groups, kids & families and adults.
Includes activities, online learning programs, games, school resources, fact sheets and more. Some learning resources require the Adobe Flash Player which can be downloaded from www.adobe.com/go/getflashplayer.
Blog
Read about interesting specimens, science curators’ research and new Australian Curriculum learning resources.
Online learning resource
Discover the beauty and uniqueness of the Great Barrier Reef and its creatures. Investigate how human activities and climate change are affecting the reef.
Teacher Resource Booklet (PDF, 2.4MB)
Online learning resource
Listen to stories of backyard wildlife. Engage in biodiversity assessments, insect collection, digital story making and observe wildlife close to home.
The resource includes the Backyard Explorer booklets for use by school and community groups.
Resource List
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A Fossil Community (55 KB) 
Student worksheet; Teacher notes
This is one of the educational resources from Queensland Museum’s online learning resource, Dinosaurs, Climate Change and Biodiversity. The aim is to infer from fossils, the changes in populations and habitats over time. Changes over time at the Mt Etna site, near Rockhampton, are examined.
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Adaptations Teaching Unit (1336 KB) Teacher Notes and Student worksheets, units and lesson plans
This unit focuses on the adaptations of organisms and is linked to the Australian Science Curriculum. It covers a term teaching unit with lesson plans, student worksheets, and assessment instruments.
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Akul (Mussel Shells): As told by Aunty Sarah5 of 11 Listen to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander stories relating to exhibitions at Queensland mussel shell, boobook owl, dolphin, swamp reeds, djan’djaries, welcome Museum South Bank. These stories are about: the turtle, dugong, triggerfish, songs, missions and shadowboxes.
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Animal Survivor - Student notes (410 KB) Student's notes
Students analyse an animal to relate its features to its survival success in the current environmental conditions. Students then make predictions about how the animal may survive if conditions were to change. Finally, students suggest some features of the animal that may make it better equipped to survive in its habitat.
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Animal Survivor - Teacher notes (1645 KB) Teacher's notes
Teacher’s notes to guiding students to relate an animal’s features to its survival success in the current environmental conditions. Students then make predictions about how the animal may survive if conditions were to change. Finally, students suggest some features of the animal that may make it better equipped to survive in its habitat.
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Asian House Geckos (251 KB) Fact Sheet
People in Brisbane, other parts of eastern Queensland and northern New South Wales are fast discovering a new, noisier house gecko lodging in their homes. The distinctive, clicking, 'chuck, chuck, chuck…' of the Asian House Gecko (Hemidactylus frenatus), has rapidly become part of the urban soundscape.
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Assassin Bugs (244 KB) Fact Sheet
Assassin bugs (the large family Reduviidae) are predatory and feed on the body juices of other animals, mainly other insects. These are called assassin bugs because they hide in ambush for their prey.
