Canberra Mapping Treasure Hunt

Using a post from Pyewacket's Party, we worked in teams to decipher the clue beneath each picture of a Canberra tourist site. We needed to name the tourist spot and to discover its location.

We marked the locations on a map of Canberra we printed from Google Maps. We listed the 11 places and locations in our SOSE books and discussed each place with our team members.

Teams worked on two Smartboards, 5 classroom computers and a student's personal laptop.

Word bank:

fish, lake, location, flowers, green, tourists, aquarium, map, museum, earth, interesting, national, land marks, water, park, fountain, buildings, area, library, places, mountain, zoo, trees, travel, animals, parliament, capital, tower, educational, road

Africa

During our studies of who we are, and where we have come from in Australia, we discovered that some of our students are from Africa.

We made an African unit of work with the following:

• Write a haiku about Africa
• It's Great to be a Cheetah
• Choose a country in Africa to focus on
• Watch an IMAX Africa DVD
• Draw an African animal and the flag from your country you chose
• List of facts about the country we chose
• Word bank list
• African Grasslands foodweb
• Study the Big Five

Word bank list:

Africa, cheetah, big five, safari, giraffe, hippopotamus, captivity, deserts, savanna, continent, desert, flag

Discuss the Big Five:

- lion, leopard, buffalo, rhinoceros, elephant

Flags of Africa