School Talks

The Department’s Education for Sustainability Unit offers free BE CROCWISE talks each year during the wet season to schools in the Territory.

Schools are encouraged to be involved as it is important that we are all aware of the dangers that exist with crocodiles in and around waters in the Top End.

To book a BE CROCWISE talk for your school, please complete the Booking Form.

Be Crocwise Teaching and Learning Resource Kit for early, primary and middle years

Teaching and Learning Resource Kit (full version) (4.6Mb)
Introduction and Teacher Notes (780Kb)
Early Years Activities (426 Kb)
Primary Years Activities (1 Mb)
Middle Years Activities (1.2 Mb)
Appendix (1.2 Mb)

What schools are doing

“Alawa PS – Crocwise Jingle” PDF 203Kb

A year 1/2 class at Alawa Primary School wrote this jingle to help them remember the Be Crocwise messages

“Girraween PS – Crocwise posters” | Poster 1 (PDF 2.6Mb) | Poster 2 (PDF 2.2Mb) | Poster 3 (PDF 2.9Mb)

Following their Be Crocwise presentation, Year 1/2 students at Girraween Primary School made a poster to show what they learnt

“Kalkarindji School – Hand print painting” PDF (547Kb)

Year 2/3 students at Kalkarindji School had to create something using a handprint as their starting point. This student was so excited after his Be Crocwise presentation that he created a crocodile!

“Marrara Christian College – Paper mache crocs” JPEG (52Kb)

After a visit to the Territory Wildlife Park for a Be Crocwise talk and to work on an 11m paper mache crocodile, this Early Years class at Marrara Christian College were inspired to create their own paper mache crocs back at school.

“Miniyerri School – Miniyerri Billabong” MP3 (1.7b)

After learning about Be Crocwise and reading Leonie Norrington’s book Croc Bait, students at Miniyerri School came up with this song about crocodile safety and their local billabong

“Pine Creek School – Foam crocs” JPEG (1.2b)

The Junior Ranger class (yr 1/2/3) at Pine Creek School created crocodiles using the edges from foam mats”

More Croc activities

Getting Creative with Crocs has ideas to engage students of all ages to think about crocodiles and gives them the chance to learn about crocodiles while having the chance to be creative.

If your school has any suggestions for activities that have worked well in your classroom and would like to share them with other educators, please contact the Education for Sustainability Unit:

Darwin (08) 8999 4565
Katherine (08) 8973 8865