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Crime StoppersVisit the Crime Stoppers Queensland display to become a Junior Crime Solver! Crime Stoppers believes that you are never too old or too young to report bad guys in your community and that you can help us solve crime puzzles.

How to use this bookThere are 19 Trail Points for you to visit. The Trail Points are informative, educational and fun. So sharpen your pencil and your map reading skills and get ready to explore The Sunday Mail Ekka Learning Trail and learn some exciting new things!

Enter the competition to win an iPad Air 16GB for your school and a Mini iPad 16GB for yourself, valued at over $1000!

All you have to do is follow these easy steps:

• Grab your Ekka Learning Trail Passport when you pick up your The Sunday Mail Ekka Learning Trail booklet

• Find the fi ve passport stamps hidden along the trail

• Stamp them in your passport

• Fill out your details, don’t forget to include what school you go to

• Place your passport in the entry box at the Crime Stoppers stand and you’ll go into the chance to win an iPad Air 16GB for your school and an iPad Mini 16GB for yourself.

Winners will be randomly selected on the last day of the Ekka and notifi ed by email.

Visit www.ekka.com.au/terms-and-conditions.aspxfor terms and conditions.

help us solve crime puzzles.

Youth are the Crime Stoppers of the future! We are dedicated to creating a safe and empowered community and with everyone’s help, young and old; we can achieve this goal together. After all, reporting crime information is the fi rst and most important step you can take to ensure Crime Stoppers catch the bad guys.

Visit our stand at Ekka this year upstairs from the Sunny Queen Farms Agricultural Hall in the Fashion and Style Pavilion and get the low down on how to become a Junior Crime Solver with a fun activity to take home. Just look for us next to the Police Stand!

The Sunday Mail Ekka Learning Trail celebrates everything educational at the Ekka. From explosive fun with Street Science to showing off your civic pride at the Brisbane City Council stand, cuddling baby animals at the RACQ Insurance Animal Nursery to hands-on learning at The Courier-Mail Learning Fun Pavilion, The Sunday Mail Ekka Learning Trail is free and fun for the whole family to enjoy. Look out for dinosaurs, farmers, scientists and LEGO displays along the way and don’t forget to complete the activities and stamp your passport to win.

Factor X Hard-hitting interviews with your favourite characters, learn to make bookmark monsters and mind boggling mysteries. If that’s what you are after than Factor X is for you – an eight-page liftout just for kids in Queensland’s biggest weekend newspaper, The Sunday Mail.

Inside Factor X, readers will fi nd loads of puzzles, the best of the best in comics, plus one whole page dedicated to drawings and poems sent in by our readers.

Factor X mascot Harold the Penguin takes readers on wonderful journeys around the world and, in turn, the readers take him on fantastic adventures too!

Regular competitions keep readers on their toes and also up-to-date with the latest gadgets and movie tickets up for grabs.

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on the back page of this booklet.

Film Fanatics, get your cameras at the ready!In the popular Energex Race Around Ekka competition students race the clock to make a TV ad for Ekka. With only 24 hours to produce, fi lm and edit, these students will defi nitely have their work cut out for them.

The Courier-Mail Learning Fun PavilionMake sure you visit the exciting education precinct at the Ekka, Queensland’s largest classroom! From animals to agriculture, crafts to cowboys, the Ekka is a one of a kind, hands-on educational event. The Courier-Mail Learning Fun Pavilion is jammed packed and waiting for you to enjoy.

Kids in the KitchenThis very popular kids cooking class is back again, promoting healthy eating habits. Suitable

for preps to year 7, Chef Carmel will help teach children

about making nutritious and delicious meals.

Alphabet Zoo: 52 Storey TreehouseVisit the Brisbane Writers Festival display and explore the maze and create your own treehouse. The display is based on the popular kids author, Andy Griffi th’s Treehouse series.

Join in the fun and come and see the LEGO Movie logo – one of the biggest builds ever done. Weighing in at a massive 360kgs it is fi ve times the size of the original logo used in the movie.

Kids will get the chance to meet mini fi gures Emmett and Lucy while they build their own LEGO movie fi gures at the LEGO play stations.

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The Courier-Mail stage

Be entertained, be informed and learn something new today! Daily information sessions and performances from 10am until 3pm weekdays (except Wednesday 13 August 10am – 5pm) and 10am until 5pm weekends. Be sure to check out the program at the stage and on the Learning Fun website.

The Courier-Mail Education on Show Competition

Check out the colourful entries at the Education on Show display. This year’s theme is about geography – the people and places that make up the world.

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Show CampNow in its 86th year Show Camp is an Ekka tradition. Show Camp gives budding student journalists from year 6 and 7 an opportunity to live in at the Show. Students will learn how to use the latest digital technology to communicate Ekka stories and experiences via the Ekka website, the Ekka Courier, podcasts, blogs and interviews.

Come and see the students hard at work in their state of the art studio.

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Proudly sponsored by

2 Seqwater and Queensland Urban Utilities

Source, Store, Supply

Do you know where water comes from?

What lives in our dams?Macro invertebrates or water bugs can help us understand levels of water pollution in a waterway. They are classifi ed into four groups to help us do this:

• Very sensitive (can only survive in the cleanest water)

• Sensitive• Tolerant• Very tolerant

(can tolerate a dirtier environment)

Use a net to scrape the bottom of your nearest stream or lake and see what you can fi nd…

TranspirationWater is drawn

up through the tree

TranspirationWater vapour

moves out through leaves

EvaporationWater changes

into water vapour

EvaporationWater changes

into water vapour

EvaporationWater vapour

rises

CondensationWater vapour changes into water drops

Seqwater is responsible for making sure that the drinking water that comes out of your tap is safe and clean! We look after 26 dams and 37 water treatment plants. We also own a Desalination Plant, which takes the salt out of seawater and makes it safe to drink. We have three Purifi ed Recycled Water Plants too – these take water that used to be sewerage and make it clean and safe to drink! We also have a great big pipe that can move water from Coolangatta all the way up to Noosa.

Queensland Urban Utilities provides water and sewerage services to residential and business customers across Brisbane, Ipswich, the Lockyer Valley, Scenic Rim and Somerset local government areas. Queensland Urban Utilities manage around 18,000 kilometres of water and sewerage pipeline, which is around the same distance between Brisbane and London!

HOW MUCH DO YOU KNOW ABOUT WATER..?What states can water exist in?

1. Liquid only2. Liquid and gas3. Liquid, solid and gas

The average person in SEQ uses how many litres of water per day?

1. 120 litres 2. 150 litres3. 360 litres

How much of the earth’s water is fresh water (not salt water)?

1. 50 %2. 10 %3. 3 %

How long has the water we use now been on the planet?

1. 100 years2. Forever3. 1000 years

How many people on earth do not have a safe water supply?

1. 2 billion2. 100,0003. 100 million

Answers: 3, 2, 3, 2, 1

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Use a sink strainer Scrape before you wash

StickersFats and oils Food waste Coffee grinds

Do not wash these items down your kitchen sink:

Bin it, don’t sink it

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More information:

Do you want to learn more about water? You could visit our website www.seqwater.com.au

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For more information on what you can and cannot put down the drain, visit www.urbanutilities.com.au/think

Have you heard about Larry the Lungfi sh?The Queensland Lungfi sh is a very special type of fi sh. They have one lung, as well as their gills, and can breathe air as well as being able to breathe in the water. If you x-ray a lungfi sh’s fl ippers, they have fi nger bones in there! They have been around for 250 million years – so lungfi sh were swimming around when the dinosaurs were on the planet. They live in Wivenhoe Dam and North Pine Dam, as well as the Mary River.

Did you think that your water came out of the tap all nice and clean, straight from the dam? Nope! We have to clean it up at a place called a Water Treatment Plant.

• When the water comes into the plant, it goes through a big strainer called a trash screen, to get all the big bits of rubbish like leaves out.

• Then it goes into what looks like a big swimming pool, but it’s really called a sedimentation basin. We add a chemical called Aluminium Sulphate which makes particles clump together, sink to the bottom and get taken away.

• After that, the water goes into a sand fi lter, where it trickles down through a fi lter made of very tightly packed sand and rock. This gets out things as small as chemicals and algae!

• The water is disinfected, and it goes out to your local reservoir. You might have noticed big concrete tanks on the side of hills near your house – these are reservoirs and they hold your drinking water.

• Finally, the water runs through a huge network of pipes, to your house.

Fats, oils and grease can harden in pipes. Small items such as fruit stickers, tea leaves and coff ee grinds, when multiplied across a neighbourhood can stick to grease buildups or get caught in screens and fi lters, causing costly blockages. While rubbish fl ushed down drains is captured by sophisticated traps and fi lters in our sewage treatment plants, blocked pipes can cause sewage overfl ows and pollute the environment.

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Build your own CO2 Rocket!You will need:

• An empty fi lm canister• A strip of foam/cardboard• Double sided tape

1. Cut the foam into 4 fi ns and use the tape to attach these near the bottom. This will help your rocket fl y straight!

To launch your CO2 Rocket!

2. MAKE SURE SAFETY GLASSES OR SUNNIES ARE WORN! Take the lid off the canister and fi ll it ¼ full of water.

3. Place a small chunk of solid rocket fuel into the body. Quickly replace the cap nice and tight onto the base and stand your rocket upright on a fl at surface. Stand back!

4. COUNT QUICKLY. 3... 2... 1... BLAST OFF!

What actually makes my CO2 rocket fl y?

Notice that when your rocket fuel comes in contact with water it starts to fi zz? This is because bicarb soda and citric acid react in the presence of water. It produces a gas called Carbon Dioxide. As the fuel fi zzes away gas starts to build up which increases the pressure inside the rocket. When there is too much gas inside the rocket it fi nally releases the lid and the rocket fl ies! BLAST OFF!

Why not try other fuel types: sherbet lollies in water... bicarb soda & vinegar... even washing powder and lemon juice has been used by some of our junior rocket scientists!

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Street Science

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Daily fossil making demonstrations and dino-talks every day in The Courier-Mail Learning Fun Pavilion.

Meet Real Life Dinosaur Hunters at the EkkaThe Marathon Minmi is a small armoured dinosaur and the Richmond Polycotylid is a complete preserved fossil of a predatory marine reptile.

At The Courier-Mail Learning Fun Pavilion meet Rob the cattle grazier, who spotted it while mustering cattle on his family property. It is Australia’s best preserved dinosaur skeleton and one of the most important of its kind in the world. Most of the bones were found articulated - still joined together.

Rob will reveal the story behind their discovery using perfect head reproductions of these specimens.

Paul is the previous curator of palaeontology at Kronosaurus Korner. He is recognized as a leader in the fi eld of fossil preparation and reconstructions.

1. How could you make your own dinosaur footprints?

2. What kind of trace fossils could you fi nd if you were out fossil hunting?

3. What is the science of studying fossils called?

Lark Quarry Dinosaur StampedeLark Quarry, in Central Queensland, is the site of the world’s only known record of a dinosaur fossil track stampede. Scientists believe that these fossils are about 95 million years old! These fossils were made by the dinosaurs walking in soft mud and over time they were preserved by sand and dirt sediments covering them.


Brisbane City CouncilVisit the Brisbane City Council Ekka stand to fi nd out what you can do around Brisbane and how Council is building a city which caters for all residents and visitors.

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Check out live performances and take a trip along our interactive wall to see how many things there are to discover in Brisbane on a day out. Explore the interactive Brisbane tour before stepping inside our Council bus to ‘drive’ one of Brisbane’s popular bus routes.

1. How many Council pools are there in Brisbane?

2. How long is the Kedron Brook Bikeway?

3. How many heritage trails are there in Brisbane?

4. Name two heritage trails in Brisbane:

5. When is Council’s Black History Month?

6. Where are the two Council tip shops?

7. Name the two Council Environment Centres in Brisbane:

8. Which month is Brisbane Festival heldeach year?

9. Which outdoor entertainment venue opened in 1989?

10. Who is the Planetarium in Toowong named after?


Answers: 1. 20. 2. 30km. 3. Eight. 4. Amble about Albion, Classic City Centre, Eye on Indooroopilly, Gallivant through Ascot and Hamilton, Meander through Milton, Reminisce in Rosalie, Secrets of South Brisbane, Vibrant Valley. 5. July. 6. Acacia Ridge and Geebung. 7. Boondall Wetlands Environment Centre and Downfall Creek Bushland Centre. 8. September. 9. Riverstage. 10. Sir Thomas Brisbane. 11. Brisbane Powerhouse 12. Approximately 39,000. 13. Almost 2km.

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11. Which building was once a working power station?

12. How many native plants are planted each year as part of the Habitat Brisbane program?

13. How many kilometres of Braille Trail are there throughout inner Brisbane?

14. Where is your favourite place in Brisbane?

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Pisciculture- Fish

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Draw a lineHere are some breeds of fi sh that will be shown at the Ekka this year. Can you match the photo of the fi sh to the name and description?

There are plenty of fi sh in the sea…Pisciculture is the breeding, hatching, and rearing of fi sh under controlled conditions.

What is your favourite fi sh on display?

Can you name three of its unique features?

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Pacifi c Blue Eyes(Pseudomugil signifer)• Found throughout

the Brisbane region in brackish and fresh water with many subtle colour diff erences.

• Only grows up to 4.5cm

• Ideal for frog ponds as they eat Mosquito larvae and not tadpoles.

Clownfi sh or Anemonefi sh (Amphiprion species)

• Many diff erent types of Clownfi sh are native to Queensland, including the Percula variety that Nemo is based upon.

• Most Clownfi sh live in a Sea Anemone. This is called symbiosis, where one species off ers protection or a home in return for the same.

• Clownfi sh will feed and defend their host Anemone, whilst the stinging tentacles of the Anemone will protect the fi sh from predators.

Freshwater Stone Fish (Notosthes robustus)

• Found in the Brisbane region, grows to approximately 30cm.

• This fi sh is a camoufl age predator and sneaks up on his food.

• His spines are poisonous but usually not fatal.

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Fish are vertebrate animals that live in the water. Vertebrate means they have a spinal cord surrounded by bone or cartilage.

Fish have gills that extract oxygen from the water around them.

There are over 30,000 known species of fi sh.

Some fl atfi sh use camoufl age to hide themselves on the ocean fl oor.

Tuna can swim at speeds of up to 70kph.

Relative to their body size, fi sh have small brains compared to most other animals.

Most fi sh are covered in scales which are often covered in a layer of slime to help their movement through water.

Cleaner fi sh help out other fi sh by removing parasites and dead skin from their scales.

Although jellyfi sh and crayfi sh have the word ‘fi sh’ in their name, they aren’t actually fi sh.


Feline Breeds

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On average, cats spend 2/3 of every day sleeping. That means a nine-year-old cat has been awake for only three years of its life.

The technical term for a cat’s hairball is a “bezoar”.

A cat can’t climb head fi rst down a tree because every claw on a cat’s paw points the same way. To get down from a tree, a cat must go down backwards.

Cats make about 100 diff erent sounds. Dogs make only about 10.

There are more than 500 million domestic cats in the world, with approximately 40 recognized breeds.

A cat can jump up to fi ve times its own height in a single bound.

A cat usually has about 12 whiskers on each side of its face.

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Can you pick which photo matches the following breeds?

Korat

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Cats were fi rst domesticated between 8,000 and 10,000 years ago in the Middle East where they proved to be useful companions for people who were cultivating grains for the fi rst time as they helped control the rodents from eating the stored grain.

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Poultry, Pigeons, Birds and EggsThis pavilion is strictly for the birds!With in excess of 1,500 feathered friends in this pavilion, you may be a little busy. You will also fi nd a colourful array of eggs of all shapes and sizes hiding in their nests.

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The chicken is the most common species of bird found in the world.

Hummingbirds can fly backwards.

Around 20% of bird species migrate long distances every year.

Homing pigeons are bred to find their way home from long distances away and have been used for thousands of years to carry messages. carry messages.

All birds...

a. Lay eggsb. Have feathersc. Are endothermic (warm-blooded)d. Have a backbonee. All of the above

What breed of chicken produces blue or green eggs?

a. Araucanab. Leghornc. Silkie

Champion Chooks of ShowLearn how to judge a chook.

Just like horses, cattle and dogs, all poultry breeds have to measure up to an Australian Poultry Standard. When judging poultry, judges have to consider a number of diff erent criteria.

Conformity – how well does the fowl match in overall appearance to the standards for a specifi c breed.

Colour – Are the colours a true and correct match of the particular breed?

Condition – is the fowl in a correct and appropriate state?

General Preparation – This includes the general cleanliness of the fowl; how well maintained and trained it is etc.

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Serves 6

Ingredients:• 1 egg• 300g lean chicken mince• Grated zucchini• Grated carrot• 1 tbsp favourite fresh herbs• Pepper• Salad to serveCooking Instructions:1. In a large bowl, mix all ingredients

together thoroughly2. Line a baking tray with baking paper3. Roll the mince into small bite sized

balls and place on the tray4. Bake in a moderate over for

15 minutes and allow to cool. Refrigerate and add a salad for school lunches with a small roll or crackers.

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TrailPoint 10Horse Breeds ExpoStraight from the Horse’s Mouth!

How much do you know about horses?

What is a young female horse called?

What is a male horse called?

Name two breeds of horses?

What are Thoroughbred horses used for?

What are the smallest and largest breeds of horses in this year’s Horse Breeds Expo?

Why are horseshoes so important?

Foals can run shortly after birth.

Horses have around 205 bones in their skeleton.

Horses have bigger eyes than any other mammal that lives on land.

Horses gallop at around 44kph.

A male horse is called a stallion.

A female horse is called a mare.

A young male horse is called a colt.

A young female horse is called a fi lly.

A horse typically sleeps two and half to three hours a day, both lying down and standing up.

Horses younger than 4 years can concentrate for a maximum of 10-15 minutes.

Horses lie down for only about 43.5 minutes a day.

Horses sleep longer in the summer than in the winter.

Horses are traditionally measured in ‘hands’, this was originally the width of a man’s hand and has been set at 4 inches.

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Suncorp Bank Beef Experience

We all do it! Farting and burping, or fl atulence and belching, is a natural result of eating. It is caused by bacteria in our stomachs digesting our food and creating waste gases like methane. Cattle and sheep belch more than humans do because of their grassy diet and unique digestive system.

Methane is a greenhouse gas and scientists believe too much of this could change our climate forever. Sheep and cattle produce up to 10% of Australia’s greenhouse gases. To reduce this, scientists have found that by adding fat and oil to the diet of cattle can change their digestive process, thus producing less methane.

(Courtesy of MLA)

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Beef cattle are animals produced on farms to provide meat, which is a nutritious and important food for people to include in a well-balanced diet. In Australia, there are more than 40 diff erent breeds (types) of cattle in all shapes, sizes and colours. This means that they can adapt and live in various climates and places all around Australia. Brahman cattle cope with the hot, tropical conditions in Northern Australia and the Poll Herefords prefer the cooler Southern Australian climate.

Skype SessionsThe Suncorp Bank Beef Experience is your chance to get up close to the beef cattle and speak to a cattle producer. This year we’ve beefed up our program with great speakers, special guests, and live international Skype Sessions from as far away as Kazakhstan!

Skype sessions run for 45 minutes starting from 10am on Friday 8 August 2014 and Wednesday 13 August 2014.

Daily information sessions (9am – 5pm) are held in the beef ring and on the stage. Be early for a ringside seat.

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Shear Excitement

See the blades fl y when you fl ock to the shearing display in the Animal Boulevard.

Daily sessions at 10am, 11am, 12noon, 1pm, 2pm and 3pm.

Sheep Farmers

Sheep Australia – the world’s largest wool producer.

China, India and Italy – the major markets for Australian Wool.

Australia has mainly fi ne wool sheep called Merinos.

Up to eight woolly jumpers can be made out of one sheep’s fl eece.

Each year over 150 million sheep are shorn by the shearers in Australia.

It takes around 53 strokes to shear a sheep’s fl eece in one piece. Sheep are shorn with a tool that looks like hair clippers.

350,000 tonnes – the weight of ‘greasy wool’ shorn in the 2012/2013 season.

The most important characteristics of wool in determining its ‘greasy value’ are: fi bre diameter, staple strength, staple length, vegetable matter, colour and yield.

Since 2009, there have been over 500 lambs born at the Ekka in the Little Miracles Newborn Corner. The Little Miracles Newborn Corner will delight and educate you at the same time. It is a great way to teach a new generation of city children about the miracle of life. See baby lambs being born and taking their fi rst tentative steps. Watch how they bond with their mothers and learn how to start feeding for the very fi rst time.

Our Ekka EwesOur Ekka ewes are from a property called Terrica, in Inglewood, outside of Stanthorpe. The ewes mate approximately 150 days before Ekka. The average length of gestation or length of pregnancy for a sheep varies from 144 to 151 days. Learn about the birthing process at the Newborn Corner, and if you are lucky, you might just get to see a baby lamb being born.

How long is a ewe’s pregnancy?

Can ewes give birth to twin or triplet lambs?

Name an important part of the bonding process between the mother and the lamb?

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Sheep shearing is an iconic Australian activity, and most Merino farmers employ specialist shearers for this purpose.

Shearing sheep has only varied slightly in over two hundred years; it still takes a lot of strength and skill. The modern day shearer is well equipped and athletically built, with the skills to shear up to 180 sheep a day.

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TrailPoint 14Milking Barn

Just how do cows make milk?

Cows need to eat a variety of feeds like grasses, legumes, grains and herbs including clover and bulky fodder to make them feel full. To produce milk cows must eat up to 70 kilos (100 kilos in spring) of feed and drink 100 litres of water a day! That’s a bathtub full of water!

It takes 50 to 70 hours for a cow to turn feed into milk and most cows produce about 25 litres of milk a day. Some cows can give up to 50 litres per day.

Before a cow can start producing milk she must have had a calf. Usually, they have one calf every year. The time when a cow is making milk is called the Lactation Cycle.

The Milking Barn in the RACQ Insurance Animal Nursery off ers a practical demonstration of the milking process.

The Australian dairy industry produced 9.2 billion litres of milk during 2012/13.

There are 6,400 dairy farms located across Australia.

About 1.65 million dairy cows produce all of Australia’s milk.

On average, cows produce 5,525 litres of milk per year.

The most common dairy cow breed in Australia is the Holstein Friesian.

43,000 Australians are directly employed on dairy farms and in manufacturing plants.

A dairy farmer has over 170 skills!

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MILKHow does milk get from the cow to you?

For hundreds of years cows were milked by hand. This was extremely hard work because the whole herd would have to be rounded up and milked by hand twice a day.

Cows still need to be milked at least twice a day, but nowadays, milk is collected from the cow’s udder by a milking machine with suction cups. The farmer gently places the cups on each of the cow’s four teats.

From here the milk travels through a series of stainless steel pipes to a large refrigerated vat where it is stored and cooled. The milk is then collected by a tanker each day and transported to the factory.

Dairy foods are transported from the factory to the supermarkets, shops and canteens

where you can buy them.

The milk is taken from the dairy farm to the

factory in a milk tanker.

At the factory the milk is pasteurised and put into cartons and plastic bottles.

How to build unbeatable bones!Did you know that most Australian kids aren’t having enough foods from the dairy food group every day? Dairy foods such as milk, cheese and yogurt are the biggest contributor of calcium in our diets which help to build strong bones and teeth for life.

Dairy foods are not only a source of calcium but they are packed full of nine other essential nutrients that your body needs to grow and develop. As you grow, make sure the amount of dairy foods you eat each day grows too!

Answers: 2. Two 3. Calcium 4. Ten


Now test your knowledge with a Legendairy quiz!

1. How many diff erent dairy breeds are on display at Ekka today?

2. Dairy cows are milked times per day.

3. What is the nutrient in dairy foods that helps to build strong bones?

4. Dairy foods contain essential nutrients your body needs to grow and develop.

Kids! For more fun activities check out the Discover Dairy website: www.dairy.edu.au/discoverdairy

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Horse:Cow:

RACQ Insurance Animal NurseryThe RACQ Insurance Animal Nursery is one of the most popular exhibits at the Ekka. At the nursery, you can touch and hold some of the cuddliest farmyard animals including baby chicks, lambs, ducklings and goats.

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Name the baby names of each of these animals:Baby Animals

Duck:

Chickens have over 200 distinct noises they can make for communicating.

A group of pigs is called a “sounder”.

Ducklings are born ready to leave the nest within hours of hatching – their eyes are open and they are able to fi nd some of their own food.

Sheep have two toes on each foot.

Cows have a memory of about three years.

Goats are great swimmers.

Geese are faithful, mate for life, and mourn when their partner dies.

A baby lamb can identify its mother by her bleat.

Roosters can’t crow if they can’t fully extend their necks.

The placement of a donkey’s eyes in its’ head enables it to see all four feet at all times.

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What is your favourite farm animal and why?

TrailPoint 16Australia’s Living History

17Answer: 1. Froe 2. Shave Horse 3. Draw Knife 4. Pole Lathe.

History comes alive!

Since colonisation in 1788 and being so far from the rest of the known world, Australians had to be innovative and resourceful especially in this land of extremes. This display takes you back to the Australia of old, the crafts, trades and way of life showing important facets of how we lived from the 1800’s to Federation, with live demonstrations, stories and displays of the little known or forgotten parts of our past.

Can you fi nd these artefacts? (Tick box)

Meat safe

Candle maker

Shepherds bed

Washing board

Hair curlers

Gazunder

Wooden butter churn


When our early explorers were opening up this vast country, matches hadn’t been invented as yet. So what do you think they used to light their campfi re every day?

(Hint: not wood but look for a rock and something metal)

Can you name the tools used to turn bush timber into something useful?

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2. S v H r e

3. r w K i

4. P e L t

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Write or draw a story of how the foods in your lunch box

were grown, processed and transported to you.

Take a look at this lunchbox. What ingredients have been used to make these foods? Where have they come from?

What are Queensland’s top 3 agricultural industries? (Visit the Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry stand to fi nd out.)

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Most of the foods you eat either came from a farm or contain ingredients that were grown on a farm.

The journey the food goes on from the farm to your plate is called the production process. For example, to make the bread for your sandwich, the farmer grows and harvests the wheat and sends it to the

mill to grind into fl our; the fl our is used by bakers to bake the bread which you buy and use to make your sandwich.

The Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry works with the farming industry to develop better ways of producing food to help meet the world’s growing demand.

Our goal is to help Queensland farmers double food production by the year 2040.

Visit the Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry stand to learn more about Queensland’s major agricultural industries and the everyday products they provide us.


Honey has been used for food and medicinal purposes throughout history. The healing properties of honey are continually being discovered.

Honey begins as nectar, the clear, sticky liquid produced by fl owers to attract pollinating insects, birds and animals.

With their proboscis (straw-like tongue) worker honey bees (female) collect the fl ower’s nectar into their honey sac. At the hive, this nectar is passed to other bees to store in the hexagon-shaped beeswax cells.

To complete the change from nectar to honey, bees fan their wings to circulate air through the hive. This evaporates moisture from the thin nectar. When thick, the cells of honey are capped with beeswax to keep it fresh and clean.

Bees produce honey as food stores for their hive. They eat honey for energy and young bee larvae are fed “bee bread”, a mixture of honey and pollen.

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a 100% natural food made entirely by honey bees.

a delicious, nutritious, energy food that is easily digested.

From hive to bottleAs Australia’s honey bees (Apis mellifera) produce much more honey than the hive can eat, beekeepers can harvest some of this excess honey.

To extract the honey from the frames, the beekeeper slices off the protective wax cappings allowing the honey to be spun out, then strained and bottled.

A bottle of 100% Australian honey contains only 100% honey and is exactly how the bees produced it. It has nothing added or taken away to preserve or improve it and will last indefi nitely if kept tightly sealed.

Honey bees are more valuable as pollinators of food crops (fruits, vegetables, seeds and nuts) than honey producers. 1/3 of all the food we eat relies on honey bees for pollination.

Each year, Queensland’s 3000 commercial and hobby beekeepers produce around 7,000 tonnes of honey worth $30million with crop pollination by honeybees worth $1billion. Yearly totals vary due to seasonal factors like droughts, fi res, fl oods and extreme temperatures. A strong, healthy hive can produce over 100kg honey a year.

The nectar from the particular fl owers the bees visit gives each honey its unique name, colour and taste.

Most of Australia’s honey comes from the fl owers of eucalypt trees in forest areas. Some of Queensland’s best known honeys are yellow box, ironbark, tea tree and brush box.

Liquid honey is the most common sold in Australia.

Crystallized honey (or Candied, Granulated, or Pot-set) All honeys will crystallize – some quickly, some taking many years – and is a natural process.

Creamed honey is a delicious, thick, smooth spread made by whipping honey.

For more information visit:www.qbabees.org.au

www.honeybee.org.au/education/wonderful-

world-of-honey/

FILL THE SPACESH _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ collect N _ _ _ _ _

from fl owers and convert it into H _ _ _ _ .

How many beekeepers are there in Queensland?

Name two Queensland honeys .

Honey bees are important P _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ of 1/3 of all the food we eat.

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Daily beekeeping demonstrations in the Sunny Queen Farms

Agricultural Hall. 10.30, 11.30, 1.30

and 2.30.

Australia requires high standards in hive management, honey extraction, packing and marketing.

When buying honey, check the label for words like: “100% Australian honey” or “Australian honey”.


How many things can you do with your pet dog? Come and see the Dog Pavilion and you will fi nd out that there’s much more to do with your dog than just throwing a ball around the backyard or going for a walk!

Dogs

There are over 200 types of purebred dogs recognised in Australia.

The oldest dog on record was an Australian Cattle Dog called Bluey.

Dogs sweat through the pads on their feet.

A dog’s nose has over 200 scent receiving cells.

Greyhounds are the fastest dogs on earth, with speeds of up to 70km per hour.

The largest breed of dog is the Irish Wolfhound.

The world’s smallest dog breed is the Chihuahua.

A dog’s nose print is as unique as a human’s fi ngerprint and can be used to accurately identify them.

This year at the Ekka it’s all about Canines and Countries!

Do you know the name of your dog's breed?

Do you know which Country the breed came from?

Can you recognize the dogs below and match them to the country of origin?

It’s easy, simply name the type of dog in the picture and write in the country, for example:

an Australian Cattle Dog comes from Australia!

The world s smallest dog breed is the Chihuahua.

A dog’s nose print is as unique as a human’s fi ngerprint and can beused to accurately identify them.

Is your dog well-mannered and a Canine Good Citizen? Would they like to race along a track really fast or chase a lure across a fi eld?

Or maybe something off -road sounds like fun? Then try an obedience trial or agility with sitting, walking and of twisty turns.

And who has all the information about dogs in Queensland? Dogs Queensland of course.

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What sort of dogs use their noses to track?

Which dogs mainly use their eyes to fi nd things?

What kind of dogs are the best at pulling?

Are there special dogs who visit sick children?

Animal Boulevard

Horse Breeds Expo Daily demonstrations 9am – 5pm

Suncorp BankBeef Experience

Daily breed information sessions

9am – 5pmSkype Session: Friday 8 – Wednesday 15

Shearing Demonstrations

Daily sessions 10am, 11am, 12noon, 1pm, 2pm, 3pm

Milking Barn Daily sessions 10.30am, 11.30am, 12.30pm, 1.30pm, 2.30pm, 3.30pm

Feline Breeds Breed talks 8 August and 13 – 16 August and 18 August, 11am, 1pm and 3pm

RACQ Insurance Animal Nursery

Daily Pavilion: 9am – 7pm

Petting Corner: 9am – 5pm

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Ekka Education is all about celebrating being Queensland’s Largest Classroom! See more and learn more when you visit these information sessions.

Educational Presentations

The Courier-Mail Headst@rt Stage in The Courier-Mail

Learning Fun Pavilion

Let your hands do the learning

From 10am until 3pm on weekdays (excluding Wednesday 13 August 10am – 5pm) and 10am until 5pm on weekends and Wednesday 13 August, there are back to back information sessions, shows and workshops for students and families to give you a full Ekka education experience. Hop onto the Learning Fun Page of the Ekka Website (www.ekka.com.au) to fi nd out what’s on when.

Kids in the Kitchen

Daily session times 10:30am, 11:30am, 1pm and 2pm

This very popular kids cooking class is back again, promoting healthy eating habits. Suitable for preps to year 7, Chef Carmel will help teach children about making good healthy eating habits. This class caters for a maximum of 32 children in one session and runs for approximately 30 minutes with participants being able to take home their very own chef hat and apron.

Secondary Schools Culinary Challenge

Junior (Year Ten): Saturday 17 August 9am – 5pm

Senior (Years Eleven and Twelve): Sunday 18 August 9am – 5pm

Come and barrack for these young master chefs as they put all of their hard earned cooking skills to the test to be crowned the 2014 Queensland Junior and Senior Secondary Schools Culinary Cooking Champion.

Sunny Queen Farms

Agricultural Hall

Garden Platform

Daily sessions 10:30 – 4:30pm

Dedicated to encouraging involvement in all things horticultural, come indulge your senses and share tips with some of Queensland’s biggest gardening enthusiasts. The Garden Platform features presentations from experts with tips on how to eat from your own backyard and garden to cooking demonstrations.

The Auditorium

Sesame Street Presents Elmo and Friends

Daily performances 10am, 11am, 12pm

Join the Sesame Street gang of Elmo, Cookie Monster, Grover, Abby Cadabby and their new friend, Lady Baa Baa, as they sing and dance their way through this exciting live stage show! Featuring favourite songs including “The Sesame Street Theme”, “C is for Cookie” plus brand new songs “Elmo’s Can Can” and “Elmo’s Got The Moves”.

Those Tap Guys

Daily performances 1pm, 2pm, 3pm

The show is a myriad of styles, themes and choreographed sequences, placed to a heart stopping sound track. It wanders from street infused tap dance, through an old fashioned swing set and back again, with creative fl air, energy and a cheeky, fun approach.

Comprising of fi ve exceptional performers with a corporate entertainment pedigree of 8 years, this high energy dance troupe is something fresh, innovative and outstanding.

Those Tap Guys wow audiences with their skill, their wit and their sharp look.

The Courier-Mail Royal Queensland Food and Wine Show Stage

This stage, hosted by well-known foodies Dominique Rizzo and Matt Kirkegaard, will take visitors on a memorable culinary experience as they cook and off er up their tips and hints alongside some of Brisbane’s great chefs.

Heritage Bank Community Stage in the Coca-Cola Sports Precinct

Daily from 9:30am – 5:30pm

School bands, choirs, community groups and aspiring new artists can be found on this busy stage. Come and watch the colourful performances and cheer on the local talent.

Urban Upbeat presented by Cranbourne Music

Daily performances from 9am – 4pm in the Streets Share Happy Chill Out Zone

The popular school band competition is shaping up to be the best showcase yet, with over 160 bands and 4,800 students set to participate in this year’s event. Urban Upbeat provides a forum for schools to exhibit the excellent instrumental programs they have established, in styles such as concert, jazz, string, choir, percussion and rock.


Buses G–1Train Station– Arrivals O–3– Departures J–9Taxis H–17

Trail Points

1. The Courier-Mail Learning Fun Pavilion O-14

2. Seqwater and Queensland Urban Utilities Q-14

3. Street Science O-144. Dinosaurs Q-145. Brisbane City Council L-146. Queensland Government P-147. Pisciculture – Fish W-148. Feline Breeds X-149. Poultry, Pigeons, Birds and Eggs V-1310. Horse Breeds Expo T-1211. Suncorp Bank Beef Experience

Fri 8 August N-7Sat 9 – Sun 17 August U-9

12. Little Miracles Newborn Corner S-1113. Sheep S-1114. Milking Barn S-1015. RACQ Insurance Animal Nursery R-1116. Australia’s Living History S-317. Department of Agriculture,

Fisheries and Forestry J-418. Honeybees J-1219. Dogs I-12

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