Where the Forest Meets the Sea: 1

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Students will need to follow the basic format of a board game and demonstrate knowledge of the procedural format, as well as aspects of persuasive texts.

Jeannie Baker's lifelike collage illustrations take the reader on an extraordinary visual journey to an exotic, primeval wilderness, which like so many others is now being threatened by civilization. Students can use any format they wish, such as a multimedia project, a play, a persuasive letter, a speech, a poster, etc. From the moment Baker’s message sunk in, my kids have been begging to visit this magical place “before it’s too late”.The morning finds us on the Quicksilver Cruises ferry from Port Douglas to a pontoon on the edge of the Agincourt Reef. The reader is allowed to follow the child on his wonderful journey, exploring nature with his senses: “I sit very still and watch and listen. Unusual collage constructions form vibrant New York City panoramas in this modest tale of Light, a white pigeon who flees his rooftop aviary to explore his urban surroundings. We go from seeing extinct and pre-historic animals, to seeing the furture vast developments of green-land becoming industrialised. It may not be for everyone but as I love Australia and anything to do with the environment this was the whole package.

Children start this session by looking at Where the Forest Meets the Sea, locating the rainforest in the book on a world map. What really appeals to me about this book are the illustrations which are collages constructed from different materials including modelling clay, papers, natural materials and paints. Another key point to add is that all children of all levels can join in with discussing about the book as the pictures speak more to the readers. A boy and his father travel in their boat, ‘Time Machine’, to a stretch of beach beside a primordial tropical rainforest.Extend your students’ knowledge of beautiful Australian natural landmarks by supporting the reading of Where the Forest Meets the Sea with The Great Barrier Reef PowerPoint and The Daintree Rainforest PowerPoint? With many years’ experience developing educational materials for print and online publishing, Kerstin aims to use her editing and writing skills to produce engaging and user-friendly content across all our platforms. My father says there has been a forest here for over a hundred million years," Jeannie Baker's young protagonist tells us, and we follow him on a visit to this tropical rain forest.

He roams the mysterious forest while imagining the long lost inhabitants of animals and the Aboriginal people. It is a great text to use to introduce themes of protecting the environment and sustainability, and to discuss the ways in which communities and places change over time, not always for the better. The last page has a very different feel and gives an image of a modern beach with hotels and ice-cream. Steve, the guide – in his Akubra, sleeveless denim shirt and Blundstones – is a dead ringer for Crocodile Dundee, but less of a risk-taker.

You can get children to think why some places there aren't many people there, example due to no housing, no transport, no food etc makes living difficult. The father takes his son out on a boat and while the father sits on the beach the boy goes walking through the rainforest.