| This
activity, using KidPix as a learning and thinking tool, has been aligned
with the SACSA frameworks and is intended to provide the learning described
below.
BAND - Primary
Years
| LEARNING
AREAS |
STRANDS |
OUTCOMES |
| Society
and Environment |
Place,
space and environment |
2.5 |
| Mathematics |
Spatial
sense and geometric reasoning |
2.14 |
| ESSENTIAL
LEARNINGS |
EVE:
Key Competencies |
LIT.,
NUM. AND ICT |
| T,
C, |
KC1,
KC2, KC5, KC6, KC7 |
ICT |
KEY IDEAS
Society and Environment
Students
use a range of resources and technologies to gather and present information.
They develop mapping and graphing skills to represent observable features
in the environment.
Mathematics
Students
develop their capacity to think about and describe geometrical form, using
a variety of spatial attributes, in more abstract and precise formulations.
STUDENT TASKS
Tasks:
Open
the map of South Australia on the computer. Type in your name. Put a title
on your map. (South Australia)
Use
your atlas and label the following coastal features.
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The Coorong
-
Eyre Peninsula
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Great Australian
Bight
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Gulf of
St. Vincent
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Kangaroo
Island
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Spencer
Gulf
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Yorke Peninsula
Label the
following two inland features
Label the
following cities
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Adelaide
-
Mt. Gambier
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Port Augusta
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Port Lincoln
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Port Pirie
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Renmark
-
Whyalla
Put in the
4 main compass points. Include a key or legend. Add one of the mountain
ranges. Find out from your atlas where whiting, beef cattle, dairy cattle,
sheep, wheat and grapes can be found. Use stamps to mark them on your map.
Colour your map. Colour the ocean in a light blue colour.
EXAMPLES OF STUDENT
WORK (YEAR 3)
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