Task One

Length 3P Mrs Parker

Solid Volume 3C Mr Cooper

Liquid Capacity 3I Mrs Ibbott

Rotate through a number of activity stations creating landmarks from different countries.

Here are some images of the different places you will be building!  Look closely at them and work out how you can create something similar.

Eiffel Tower

Pyramids of Egypt

Leaning Tower of Pisa

Sydney Harbour Bridge

Great Wall of China

Viking catapult

Learning content:

examines features and characteristics of places and environments

acquires and communicates geographical information using geographical tools - maps

Complete the worksheet below labelling the following:

equator, Australia, Indian Ocean, Pacific Ocean, New Zealand, northern hemisphere, southern hemisphere, Tasmania

Now watch the video below introducing our topic for this term.

Over two hundred years ago there was no country called Australia.  The Aboriginal people have lived in this country for hundreds of years.  At the end of the 1700s, white-skinned people from Europe started to come to this continent to live. Different people settled in different parts of the land and they worked as small groups of people.  It started with New South Wales.  If you click through the animation below, you will see how the different ways that Australia was divided up.

Your teacher will read you a book about our country, Somebody's Land, before it was called Australia.  Listen carefully and see if you think the people were treated fairly.

Finally about 120 years ago, in 1901, the states all joined together and were made into the country of Australia!

There are 6 states and 2 territories.  The video below tells us a bit about each part of the country.  Each state or territory has a capital city.  Now complete a map naming all the states and marking in all the capital cities.

You will participate in a range of activities to learn where all the different states are in Australia, and where their capital cities are.