What's inside the 2021 Roots and Shoots JGI Australia Resource Box

The Jane Goodall Institute Australia's Roots & Shoots Resource Box is being sent free of charge to 4,000 schools across Australia!

A big thanks to the Phillips Foundation and the Don Hanson Charitable Foundation for making the 2021 Roots & Shoots Australia Resource Box possible!

Here is an overview of what is inside!

Each box includes:

Living Landscapes Volume 1 - A journey through Australia’s rich and diverse first cultures.

A collaboration with First Nations partners across our wide and wonderful land, Living Landscapes is a compelling compendium of Australia’s rich and diverse Indigenous cultures.

From the northerly Masigalgal people of the Torres Strait, to South Australia’s Mirning Council of Elders, the Banbai Rangers in the east, to the south-western Noongar, this stunning hardback is brimming with beautiful artwork, photography, stories and personal tales from our living landscape – of past, present and future.

A celebration of the ecological wisdom of earth’s oldest continuing culture, Living Landscapes is a treasure to be enjoyed by all young Australians and their teachers, to further connect us to the animals, people and environments of this land.

Australia’s Amazing Islands

A stunning look at the major islands off our coastline and their unique biodiversity. While mainland Australia is technically the biggest island in the world, we are lucky to be surrounded by a circle of incredibly biodiverse smaller islands.

Explore the remote Indian Ocean tropics of Cocos Keeling to the chilly subantarctic Macquarie, the world’s largest sand island at Queensland’s Fraser to the coral reef paradise of Lady Elliot, without leaving your classroom!

Australia’s Amazing Islands is your tour guide to these unique and special places – exploring the landscapes, habitats, plants, animals, birds, marine life and conservation priorities of each.

Incredible Universe Volume 1: The Solar System

A 160 page book that explores the wonders of solar system. The book opens with an overview of our understanding of the observable universe (and how we know what we know) and examines the unimaginable scale of solar system and our galaxy (with practical activities for students to undertake).

The book than explores our solar system, examining each planet systematically and in turn (along with all other main features of the solar system, such as dwarf planets and asteroid belts).

The closing chapters of the book focus on the astonishing accomplishments of recent years exploring Mars, and a look towards the next chapter of space exploration.

This book is designed to make physics, astronomy and maths classes come alive!

What on Earth? The Plants You've Never Heard Of!

Forget pansies and daffodils, this book explores the unbelievable plants that call our world home! From flowers over 2 metres tall, to carnivorous plants that catch animals as big as rats. As we journey through the most amazing members of the plant world, we'll meet the world's smelliest flowers, plants with iridescent blue leaves, deadly plants, sensitive plants (with leaves that move), the world's weirdest blooms and countless other amazing members of the plant world!

Discover plants as you have never seen them before!

Also included:

Cover letter from the Jane Goodall Institute Australia.

One Earth young filmmakers contest document.

Woodiwild information document.

Imagi-Nation information document

ReWild Your School project flyer.

A flyer about our upcoming Live Lecture Series exploring Australia's Amazing Islands.

A flyer about two exciting competitions that Roots & Shoots is running in partnership with the Don Hanson Charitable Foundation's School Program.

Visit www.janegoodall.org.au to request next year's free Resource Box for your school!