NESA / Geography / Geographical inquiry skills / Processing geographical information
interpret geographical data to identify distributions and patterns and draw conclusions
The Blue Marble Sustainability Preview Unit |
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The Rainforest
· Learning Opportunities
Your students will watch a video about the Amazon rainforest and draw the area of the Amazon rainforest on a map of South America. |
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Sharing Our 3:2:1 R:I:Q
· Learning Opportunities
Your students will reflect on their excursion and share their insights or questions with the class |
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Conducting An Independent Inquiry
· Future Action and Independent Inquiry
Your students will practise the skills of questioning, research and working independently as they conduct an inquiry into a topic that they have learnt about during this unit. |
First Contact Community Preview Unit |
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Researching an Artefact: Europeans
· Learning Opportunities
Your students will work in pairs to design an artefact that a convict or marine would have used in their day-to-day life and write a journal entry from the perspective of this person. |
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Historical Artefacts
· Learning Opportunities
Your students will compare artefacts from the cultures of First Peoples of Australia and the European settler community, and draw and label an imaginary artefact from the future. |
Into the Unknown Change Preview Unit |
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The Age Of Exploration: Mapping A Voyage
· Learning Opportunities
Your students will use a global map to plot a voyage of the explorer that they researched. |
Australia's Neighbours Question-Based Investigations Preview Unit |
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Assessment
· Synthesis Phase
You will conduct a conference with each student to assess their understanding of the content they have learnt during their research. |