Discovering Caves Kit

Created 17/10/2025

Updated 17/10/2025

Australia boasts 10,000 caves! Caves are a great way to introduce common scientific and geographic concepts to your students. The Discovering Caves Kit is suitable for teachers, students and the general public. It comprises; - 18 fact sheets on topics such as cave chemistry, cave formation, karst landscapes, dating cave deposits, caves and past climate clues, cave animals and fossils and cave management. - 7 reproducible student activities, including a 3D cave model to construct - full colour 'Discovering Caves in Australia' 108 x 78 cm poster (catalogue item 33849) Suitable for primary level Years 4-6 and secondary level Years 7-9.

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Field Value
Title Discovering Caves Kit
Language eng
Licence Not Specified
Landing Page https://data.gov.au/data/dataset/cd781846-3113-4961-8c4a-56a15c9b4d50
Contact Point
Geoscience Australia Data
clientservices@ga.gov.au
Reference Period 20/04/2018
Geospatial Coverage
Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors
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}
Data Portal Geoscience Australia

Data Source

This dataset was originally found on Geoscience Australia "Discovering Caves Kit". Please visit the source to access the original metadata of the dataset:
https://ecat.ga.gov.au/geonetwork/srv/eng/csw/dataset/discovering-caves-kit