Task One

Task Two - Using Compensation for subtraction

Learning content:

• examines features and characteristics of places and environments

• acquires and communicates geographical information using geographical tools - maps

UPDATED GEOGRAPHY LESSON:

Assessment moved to Week 5 as more practise needed.

1. 11:55 - 10 minute rotations of Australian States and Territories

2. 12.30 pm all together to talk about Brownies mining then carry out the experiment- changing the earth surface (kids take photos of their brownie to upload to Seesaw):

   1. Before

   2. During

   3. After

3. 1:20 Talk through the slideshow (How people change the earth's surface) after recess

4. 1:50 Significant sites all together - top sites people should see

5. Fact sheets:

3P- Great Barrier Reef/Sydney Harbour Bridge

3C - Kakadu/Sydney Opera House/Uluru

3I - Blue Mountains/Franklin River/Bungle Bungles

6. Go back to own rooms and share the information with own class - complete Sites sheet

PBL introduced next week after the assessment

Australia has lots of valuable resources underground - coal, gold, iron, silver and many other minerals.

Your teacher will give you an activity to simulate mining for resources in Australia.

Now look at these slides to see some of the many others ways that people impact the surface of the earth.

In order to help protect our beautiful places and nature, Australia has created National Parks where people have to take extra special care to protect our environment.

PBL - commence next week!

Your teachers will demonstrate what will be involved in your Project-Based Learning about Australia's states.

Brief

Your job is to plan a family holiday in Australia this year. The family consists of 2 adults and 2 children (1 child aged 10, and 1 child aged 6). Make sure you include things that will interest everybody. Your job is to make all the plans for the trip.

The family will need to fly from Sydney airport to an airport in the state you have chosen, and then hire a vehicle to travel around in.

• You will visit one state or territory.

• The trip will last for 5-6 days.

• You will need to plan the itinerary (what they do each day).

• You will need to visit different significant sites and at least one national park. You will need to use a map (and googlemaps) to work out what places you can visit within a reasonable travelling distance.

• Include at least one site of Indigenous importance

• You can add other places if you wish.

There are a number of additional tasks that you can complete in order to gain bonus mission points.

You will each need to prepare a presentation about one of the places you are going to visit and explain why you chose it, and what made it an appropriate choice for the family to visit.

You need to select your three preferences for a state you would like to research, and also select whether you wish to complete this task individually, in pairs or as a group.