• Organize students in groups of up to four per group. Each student group should contain a variety of ability levels.
• The ‘Introduction’ section of each activity may be read as a class or by the student groups.
• Each group should have a job for each group member, which can be alternated so that each has an opportunity to complete that job. Examples would include: reader, recorder, etc.
• Determine prior to the activities which should be completed by the student groups or on an individual basis.

Provide resource books and internet sites of Australian reptiles, i.e., poisonous snakes, for students to research and explore. Additional pictures will supplement their research in creating mythological creatures.

Gather materials and books which portray creatures from mythology for students to use as a guide. Have the students identify special features of mythological creatures which they can use in creating their own characters.

Provide a variety of newspapers as examples for students to use in creating their articles. Select an article in which to identify the five Ws of reporting and have students discuss prior to the lesson.

Provide internet sites and resource materials that describe crocodile habitats. Have students collect clip art, photographs, and diagrams, which illustrate those habitats.

Provide resource materials, i.e. encyclopedias, dinosaur books, prehistoric timelines for students to reference as they create their crocodile history timelines.

Provide students with outline maps of Australia to use in identifing settlement patterns of the Australian people and the estuary environments of crocodiles.