Sasha Says - Website resources - kids corner and external links - a podcast by Whitestone Geopark

Geoeducator: Ok, so if you head onto our website. That's www.whitestonegeopark.nz. You'll see there's a whole lot of sections in there. If you head to the 'learn' section you'll see there's a kids corner. Follow that link and - I'll just run through all the various activities we've got there for children who are looking for things to do with a bit of an educational bent on it. So we've got, a coloring in page there for people to print off and there's links there to explain what they're colouring in. So you want to know a bit more about a plesiosaur - follow the link. Want to know abit more about clay cliffs - follow the link. And it's all in kid friendly language. So we're aiming this for maybe an adult to print out and they could give it to their child or obviously they could also use it online under supervision. We've got word searches. We've got a matching exercise there to do. We've also got a map so people can see with these various locations are. So these are things that you can go and actually look at in person, once we've been downgraded to a suitable level out of lockdown. We've got crosswords and we've got an exercise where you can - we run you through the steps on how to create your very own prehistoric scene at home, which is quite an exciting one, and I did with my own kids. We've also got links there that parents might want to follow to other websites. Now, these include pretty cool things. So Te Papa have put out activity books - one's on the giant squid that's up there, we've got Matariki. They are in various different languages - so you can go on there, follow the link and it will take you through to these Te Papa activity books. Now you can download these and print these out and that's another educational activity for kids to be able to do at home. We've also got links there through to New Zealand Geographic material as well aimed at children and some 3-D paper models that kids can also make - some of these are but tricky so parents or adults who are supervising will need to probably help out with some of those. So there's some pretty cool things and we continually adding to it. Next week, we're looking at adding a table on how to become a rock detective. So some of the things that you need to look at if you're out in your own backyard and you find a rock - we lead you to a table of some questions that you can ask yourself, observations that you can make that could help you identify what the Rock is. So I've thrown in a bit of a trick question in that lot so see if you can pick that one out as well. So watch out for that next week.

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