Middle Primary Year 3/4

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TERM 2 WEEKS 1 - 5: TOURISM

HOW WE ORGANISE OURSELVES

Central Idea: There is an interrelationship between tourism, local communities and their environment

Lines of Inquiry:

The 5A's of tourism- Access, Accomodation, activities, attractions, amenities
How these works in combination
Advantages and disadvantages to communities

CONCEPTS:

FUNCTION, CONNECTION, REFLECTION

TERM 2 WEEKS 6- 10

WHERE WE ARE IN PLACE AND TIME

Central Idea: Explorers venture into the unknown territories for many reasons

Lines of Inquiry:

Geographical features of the world
Reasons for explorations
The age of explorations
Impact of exploration

CONCEPTS:

FORM, CONNECTION CAUSATION

Library Lesson

Ecotourism

· Activity: Pick a location and an “ecotourist” vacation. What will you pack? Pick one of the worksheets and plan your ecovacation.

You have a choice to visit the:

Coral Reef
Great Swamp
Glacier Park
A big city neghbourhood park

Library Skills:

Narrative/Informative text (dictionaries, reference books, online)

Listen to, read, and understand a wide variety of grade-level informational and narrative (story) text including children’s magazines and newspapers, dictionaries, other reference materials, online information, classic and contemporary literature, and poetry.

Diagrams, charts and graphs

Interpret information from diagrams, charts, and graphs

Cause/effect andfact/opinion

Distinguish cause-and-effect and fact and opinion.

Make connections/respond (fiction, non-fiction)

Listen to text and read text to make connections and respond to a wide variety of significant works of children’s literature – including poetry, fiction, non-fiction, and drama – from a variety of cultures and time periods

Speaker/narrator

Identify the speaker or narrator in a selection.

Character study

Determine what characters are like by what they say or do and by how the author or illustrator portrays them.

Theme/author's message

Determine and discuss the underlying theme or author’s message in literary text.

Cause/effect and fact/opinion

Recognize cause-and-effect relationships in literary text.

OPAC

1. Title

2. Author

3. Subject