2)+Marine+Discovery+Centre


 * The website for the Marine Discovery Centre is:** []

**Task 1: What we know about the Marine Discovery Centre and its location**


 * It’s a place where animals can be found
 * It’s in Queenscliff
 * It’s probably on or near the beach
 * You can learn about different marine life there
 * There are different activities you can do there. You might be able to hold different animals like sea stars?
 * You can learn about the ocean habitat

**Task 2: Questions we have about the Marine Discovery Centre**
 * What exactly is the Marine Discovery Centre? What is its purpose?
 * Where about in Queenscliff is it located?
 * What animals will we get to see there?
 * What are some of the facilities there?
 * What should you wear when you go there?
 * More information about the animals we’ll get to see

**Task 3: We explored the Marine Discovery Centre Website and tried to find the answers to our questions** 1. What exactly is the Marine Discovery Centre? What is its purpose? It is a centre that educates about the marine environment and increases awareness. Its purpose is to promote sustainability and conservation.

2.Where in Queenscliff is it located? It is located on the shores of Swan Bay in Queenscliff.

3. What are some of the facilities there? The facilities include a visitor's aquarium, student laboratory, classroom, a resource room and a gift shop. They are also surrounded by habitats including rocky shores, mudflats, salt marshes, seagrass meadows, mangroves, sand dunes and temperate reefs that can be used for field activities.

4. What should you wear when you go there? Footwear: Solid footwear such as old runners that can get wet.__No thongs__ Clothing: waterproof / windproof jacket **Task 4: Questions we’re still not sure about**
 * What animals will we get to see there?
 * More information about the animals we’ll get to see

**Task 5: Getting directions using Google Maps** We went to Google Maps and typed in Camp Wyuna, Queenscliff. Then we clicked on ‘get directions’ and in the blank boxed typed in Marine Discovery Centre. __How to get to the Marine Discovery Centre from Camp: __  media type="custom" key="9565304" align="center"

The __A__ shows where Camp Wyuna is and the __B__ shows where the Marine Discovery Centre is.

We decided that this map shows us that to walk to the Marine Discovery Centre from the Camp, first we will walk South West, then North, then West. The overall direction of the Marine Discovery Centre from the Camp is West.

This map doesn’t show a scale but when we looked it up on the Google Maps site it did. We used this to estimate the distance. At first people came up with a lot of very different estimations from 200 metres to 2kms. Then we used a pencil that was the same size as the length the scale showed represented 200 metres so we used this to help with our estimate. We decided it was about 800 metres away. We checked this with the Google directions which said 700 metres so we were pretty close.

The maps on Google Maps don’t show everything in BOLTSS. One thing is they don’t have a legend. It would be good if they had a legend to check what all the symbols and things mean. But a lot of the time we know what it means anyway for example the train tracks.

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