Number Sense Activities

Minerals - Jigsaw Learning

Students will need to use GeoScience Australia's website for Australian Mineral facts.

Teacher to show students how to navigate the site. Show students the legend/key beneath the maps which indicate the size/importance of the different mines.

Pairs of students are each assigned a different mineral.  They need to click on that mineral and scroll down to the map which shows where the minerals are found.  They then need to mark two large deposits of the mineral onto their map of Australia.

Later, the groups share their information onto a large map for the whole class, who can then add the information to their own maps.  To do this, a legend will need to be created, with a different colour representing each of the different minerals.

Information about the minerals can also be added into their Australia's Guidebooks from earlier in the term.