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Some teaching ideas :
- Read the story of Red Dog - The Pilbara Wanderer and
retell your own version.
- Write poems about Red Dog.
- Design a really cool dog house for Red Dog.
- Design an indoor dog-exercising machine for Red Dog for
when it gets too hot outside.
- Design an automatic pooper scooper to make Red Dog
environmentally friendly.
- Hold a Bon Voyage party for
Red Dog when he leaves for the next school.
- Create some invitations for guests.
- Make up wanted posters as if Red Dog got lost.
- Design and send postcards.
- Find out where the Pilbara
region is on a map and look up Karratha, Dampier,
Paraburdoo, Tom Price, Roebourne
and Point Samson.
- Find out about the mining
industry with iron ore, gas, oil, salt and other
minerals.
- Investigate some of the wonderful tourist attractions in
the Pilbara such as
Millstream, Python Pool, Karinjini Gorges and the
Hamersley Ranges.
- Story Map – based on Red Dog’s real life
adventures.
- Compile e-mail buddy profiles of students in your class.
- Calculate kilometres travelled by Red Dog.
- Make a multimedia presentation of your activities with
Red Dog
- Make up a timetable of how Red Dog spends his days.
- Design a passport for Red Dog.
- Prepare a press release for Red Dog’s Arrival.
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