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Aboriginal Songlines Helped Draw the Map in Australia

GEOGRAPHY There’s a good chance Aboriginal people mapped out Australia’s road network thousands of years before Europeans arrived—and used star charts to do it. (Phys.org) Use our resources to learn more about how Aboriginal Australians charted their landscape. Teachers, scroll down for a quick list of key resources in our Teachers’ Toolkit. Discussion Ideas The Phys.org article focuses on star maps created by Aboriginal Australians, … Continue reading Aboriginal Songlines Helped Draw the Map in Australia

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Have Scientists Solved the Mystery of Fairy Circles?

ENVIRONMENT Mysterious fairy circles have long lured mystics and conspiracy theorists to Africa’s Namib Desert. Now, scientists may have cracked the fairy code. (Washington Post) Watch our cool video (and standards-aligned study guide) to learn more about this “desert created by water.” Teachers, scroll down for a quick list of key resources in our Teachers’ Toolkit, including today’s MapMaker Interactive map. Discussion Ideas New research … Continue reading Have Scientists Solved the Mystery of Fairy Circles?

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Australians Spent 50,000 Years Isolated from the Rest of Us

SCIENCE Australia was one of the first regions modern humans reached after leaving Africa some 50,000 years ago. And no one visited them for a long time. (Christian Science Monitor) Use our resources to trace our “global human journey” out of Africa. Scroll down for a quick list of key resources in our Teachers’ Toolkit. Discussion Ideas The new paper discusses genetic research on the … Continue reading Australians Spent 50,000 Years Isolated from the Rest of Us

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Why Australia Has to Kill 2 Million Cats

ENVIRONMENT The cull isn’t part of some cruel anti-cat agenda. (Washington Post) Feral cats are actually fierce feline predators responsible for killing more than a billion small mammals and birds each year. Watch our Crittercam video to see how a game of cat-and-mouse really plays out . . . Teachers, scroll down for a quick list of key resources in our Teachers’ Toolkit. Discussion Ideas … Continue reading Why Australia Has to Kill 2 Million Cats

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Droning for Dinosaurs

SCIENCE Scientists are going high-tech to survey thousands of fossilized tracks in remote Western Australia. (BBC) Use our resources to dig deeper into the world of dinosaurs. Teachers, scroll down for a quick list of key resources, including today’s dino-riffic MapMaker Interactive map. Discussion Ideas Paleontologists in Australia are using drones to look for dinosaur fossils. What are drones? A drone is an unmanned aircraft … Continue reading Droning for Dinosaurs

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