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Queensland Spatial Educators’ Toolkit for the Australian Curriculum: Geography Primary (Prep – Year 6) August 2020
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Queensland Spatial Educators’ Toolkit Primary P-6 iIntroduction........................................................................................................................................... iv Toolkit structure ................................................................................................................................... iv Using the toolkit ................................................................................................................................... iv Year Prep: People live in places ........................................................................................................ 1 Year 1: Places have distinctive features........................................................................................... 2 Year 2: People are connected to many places ................................................................................ 4 Year 3: Places are both similar and different ................................................................................... 6 Year 4: The earth’s environment sustains all life ............................................................................ 8 Year 5: Factors that shape the human and environmental characteristics of places ................ 9 Year 6: A diverse and connected world .......................................................................................... 12 Queensland Spatial Educators’ Toolkit Primary P-6 ii
Introduction The Queensland Spatial Educators’ Toolkit (QSET) is designed to inspire classroom teachers with ideas on how to use spatial technologies in the classroom while meeting the requirements of the Australian Curriculum. The Australian Curriculum: Geography mandates the use of spatial technologies from Year 4 so the initial focus of the Queensland Spatial Educators’ Toolkit is Geography. Science will be supported in the near future. Toolkit structure We have used the traditional Geographic Inquiry model to structure our learning sequences. This Geographic Inquiry model has been part of the Queensland Senior Geography syllabus for many years. Ferny Grove State High School’s David McCauley, writing for the Geography Teachers Association of Queensland, outlines the inquiry approach i in Queensland geography classrooms. The Australian Geography Teachers Association’s GeogSpace site also has a resource dedicated to Geographic inquiry ii. The ‘Key inquiry questions’ from the Australian Curriculum: Geography iii have also been considered when organising our learning sequences with the Geographical inquiry model. Using the toolkit The ‘Sequence learning’ section of the Queensland Curriculum, Assessment and Reporting Framework iv outlines what will be taught in the classroom. Resources to implement this framework v can be found on the Queensland Curriculum and Assessment Authority’s website once you have selected your year level. Although there will be common elements across all units, every school will have a different way of organising their units of work. Look for opportunities to take teaching strategies from QSET and integrate those into your own work program and units. For instance, in Year 8 you may already study landforms and landscapes in some way. By using the toolkit you can look for activities that can ‘slot’ into your existing unit with little reorganisation. You will probably not use all the activities as you may not have time or access to the relevant tool but you can select those activities that fit with your work program and are appropriate for your classroom. If you need to completely rewrite your units, you could use our structure, in conjunction with the resources provided, as a starting point. i https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BxD8DSqqwrVkczNvUGF2SVlRbGM/view?usp=sharing ii http://www.geogspace.net.au/Support%20units/Geographical%20inquiry/index.php iii http://www.australiancurriculum.edu.au/ iv https://education.qld.gov.au/curriculum/stages-of-schooling/p-12 v https://www.qcaa.qld.edu.au/26025.html Queensland Spatial Educators’ Toolkit Primary P-6 iii
Year Prep: People live in places
Key inquiry questions
• What are places like?
• What makes a place special?
• How can we look after places we live in?
Year Prep toolkit
What are places like?
Learning experiences and teaching strategies Spatial resources
Use an online virtual 3D globe, satellite image viewer or Online map services vi
map to view places that are familiar to students such as Google Earth vii
their house, the school, local shops, parks or main roads in
Queensland Globe viii
the area.
OpenStreetMap ix
What makes a place special?
Learning experiences and teaching strategies Spatial resources
Collect data on a field trip to a special place close to the Google Tour Builder x
school. Record location, take photographs and field sketch
at each site. Collate all of this material into a virtual field
trip.
How can we look after places we live in?
Learning experiences and teaching strategies Spatial resources
Ask students to create a map either on a computer, tablet Scribble Maps xi
or interactive whiteboard then highlight places in the local Google Maps xii
area that need management, looking after or special care. xiii
OpenStreetMap
Use appropriate symbols to represent features.
vi https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_online_map_services
vii https://earth.google.com/
viii https://qldglobe.information.qld.gov.au/
ix https://www.openstreetmap.org/
x https://tourbuilder.withgoogle.com/
xi http://www.scribblemaps.com/
xii https://www.google.com.au/maps
xiii https://www.openstreetmap.org/
Queensland Spatial Educators’ Toolkit Primary P-6 1Year 1: Places have distinctive features
Key inquiry questions
• What are the different features of places?
• How are different places used?
• How can we care for places?
Year 1 toolkit
What are the different features of places?
Learning experiences and teaching strategies Spatial resources
Use an online satellite image viewer such as Google Maps to Online map services xiv
view natural features and constructed features in a familiar Google Earth xv
environment such as the school.
Queensland Globe xvi
Examine the weather in your local area and monitor weather Bureau of Meteorology MetEye xvii
predictions using the Bureau of Meteorology’s tools.
How are different places used?
Learning experiences and teaching strategies Spatial resources
Using an online map creator, view a satellite image of the Scribble Maps xviii
neighbourhood around the school with the class. Google Maps xix
View different services and facilities in the area as well as the OpenStreetMap xx
different types of land use.
Ask students how they can tell which features are natural and
built, which are houses and shops and so on.
As a group, locate different types of land use and use the Scribble Maps xxi
drawing tools to colour them using an appropriate colour. OpenStreetMap xxii
Discuss how your local area is used and compare with Queensland Globe xxiii
another local area nearby.
How can we care for places?
Learning experiences and teaching strategies Spatial resources
Use Google Street View to find places in your area that need Google Street View via Maps xxiv
attention. In some locations historic Street View shows
imagery going back to mid-late 2000s.
Discuss what could be done at each area and get students to
draw what it would look like when it was improved.
Queensland Spatial Educators’ Toolkit Primary P-6 2xiv https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_online_map_services xv https://www.google.com/earth/ xvi https://qldglobe.information.qld.gov.au/ xvii http://www.bom.gov.au/australia/meteye/ xviii http://www.scribblemaps.com/ xix https://www.google.com.au/maps xx https://www.openstreetmap.org/ xxi http://www.scribblemaps.com/ xxii https://www.openstreetmap.org/ xxiii https://qldglobe.information.qld.gov.au/ xxiv https://www.google.com.au/maps Queensland Spatial Educators’ Toolkit Primary P-6 3
Year 2: People are connected to many places
Key inquiry questions
• What is a place?
• Where is my place?
• How are people connected to their place or other places?
• How do we use different places?
Year 2 toolkit
What is a place?
Learning experiences and teaching strategies Spatial resources
Search through geotagged or geolocated imagery to see Open Street View xxv
different places. Use search terms like ‘beach’, ‘desert’, Flickr map xxvi
forest’, ‘city’ or specific locations to view different places.
Discuss why these places are all important in their own
way.
Examine all of the different indigenous nations that exist in ABC Indigenous Language Map xxvii
Australia.
Discuss indigenous connection to place through
Dreamtime stories, art and more.
Where is my place?
Learning experiences and teaching strategies Spatial resources
View your local area and see where your place is by using Google Earth xxviii
a digital 3D globe. Queensland Globe xxix
View different scales by starting at your classroom, then
viewing the school, your town/city, your region,
Queensland, Australia and the world.
How are people connected to their place or other places?
Learning experiences and teaching strategies Spatial resources
Conduct research into a local indigenous Australian group Scribble Maps xxx
or nation. Create a collective class map that illustrates OpenStreetMap xxxi
important places such as sacred places, totems,
Google My Maps xxxii
paintings, cultural sites, carvings or more. These might be
current or historic in nature.
Queensland Spatial Educators’ Toolkit Primary P-6 4How do we use different places?
Learning experiences and teaching strategies Spatial resources
View an online satellite image viewer such as Google Earth. Ask Google Earth xxxiii
students to try and interpret what they are viewing on screen. Online map services xxxiv
Start at your classroom and move to other familiar locations to Queensland Globe xxxv
students.
These could be nearby parks, shops, a city or town centre or
significant natural features.
Ask students to identify different types of land use in the satellite
image.
Create a map showing where people in their family might go Scribble Maps xxxvi
during a typical day to illustrate patterns in movement of shopping, Queensland Globe xxxvii
recreation, work, education, cultural or other reasons.
OpenStreetMap xxxviii
Consider how this would have been different in their grandparents’
Google My Maps xxxix
time; discuss how changing transport and information technology
has influenced how we use the world around us.
xxv http://openstreetview.org/
xxvi https://www.flickr.com/map
xxvii https://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-12-15/indigenous-language-map/7014746
xxviii https://www.google.com/earth/
xxix https://qldglobe.information.qld.gov.au/
xxx http://www.scribblemaps.com/
xxxi https://www.openstreetmap.org/
xxxii https://www.google.com/mymaps
xxxiii https://www.google.com/earth/
xxxiv https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_online_map_services
xxxv https://qldglobe.information.qld.gov.au/
xxxvi http://www.scribblemaps.com/
xxxvii https://qldglobe.information.qld.gov.au/
xxxviii https://www.openstreetmap.org/
xxxix https://www.google.com/mymaps
Queensland Spatial Educators’ Toolkit Primary P-6 5Year 3: Places are both similar and different
Key inquiry questions
• How do we represent Australia’s human and natural features?
• How and why are places similar and different?
• What would it be like to live in a neighbouring country?
• How can we protect special or unique places?
Year 3 toolkit
How do we represent Australia’s human and natural features?
Learning experiences and teaching strategies Spatial resources
Use an online 2D or 3D mapping application to view Queensland Globe xl
Australia’s visible natural and human features on a variety of Online map services xli
maps or basemaps. Google Earth xlii
View a satellite image, road map, terrain map and hybrid map
to consider what format is best for different map features.
Focus on features of your local area or Queensland. QTopo xliii
Consider how natural features have impacted Queensland Queensland Globe xliv
such as rivers (our cities and towns), soils (agriculture) and
more.
How and why are places similar and different?
Learning experiences and teaching strategies Spatial resources
View current weather around the world and in our region null school earth xlv
using an online weather viewer. Google Earth (weather layer) xlvi
Collect data for different locations and compare weather at Bureau of Meteorology MetEye xlvii
these locations.
Consider how places look different. View online satellite NASA How to interpret a satellite
images of different places and compare how the land is used image xlviii
at each. Online map services xlix
Discuss how we can interpret satellite images to work out
what we are viewing.
Compare different places from your local area, region,
Australia and around the world.
Use the ABS Quick Stats website to gather demographic ABS Quick Stats l
data from places in Australia such as your own location.
Compare different places to see how places change as
locations change.
Queensland Spatial Educators’ Toolkit Primary P-6 6What would it be like to live in a neighbouring country?
Learning experiences and teaching strategies Spatial resources
Compare your country geographically and across a range of If it were my home li
key indicators with any other country on earth.
How can we protect special or unique places?
Learning experiences and teaching strategies Spatial resources
Ask students to create a map demonstrating how they would Scribble Maps lii
manage or care for a particular important place. The place OpenStreetMap liii
might be of local, regional, national or global significance.
Google My Maps liv
xl https://qldglobe.information.qld.gov.au/
xli https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_online_map_services
xlii https://www.google.com/earth/
xliii https://qtopo.information.qld.gov.au/
xliv https://qldglobe.information.qld.gov.au/
xlv http://earth.nullschool.net/
xlvi https://www.google.com/earth/
xlvii http://www.bom.gov.au/australia/meteye/
xlviii http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Features/ColorImage/
xlix https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_online_map_services
l http://www.abs.gov.au/websitedbs/censushome.nsf/home/quickstats
li http://www.ifitweremyhome.com/
lii http://www.scribblemaps.com/
liii https://www.openstreetmap.org/
liv https://www.google.com/mymaps
Queensland Spatial Educators’ Toolkit Primary P-6 7Year 4: The earth’s environment sustains all life
Key inquiry questions
• How does the environment support the lives of people and other living things?
• How do different views about the environment influence approaches to sustainability?
• How can people use places and environments more sustainably?
Year 4 toolkit
How does the environment support the lives of people and other living things?
Learning experiences and teaching strategies Spatial resources
Consider the global distribution of biomes, their vegetation National Geographic MapMaker Interactive lv
and climate by overlaying data on an online global
environment map or satellite image. Compare South
America and African land cover to draw out the similarities
and differences.
Create a map showing the distribution of natural Scribble Maps lvi
resources in Queensland. Consider national park, mining, OpenStreetMap lvii
forestry and other resources.
Google My Maps lviii
View a list of species for different locations around Atlas of Living Australia lix
Australia. Consider the number and variety of species, the
environment at each location, the land use in the area,
climate and other geographical factors.
Examine the weather in your local area and monitor Bureau of Meteorology MetEye lx
weather predictions using the Bureau of Meteorology’s
tools.
How do different views about the environment influence approaches to
sustainability?
Learning experiences and teaching strategies Spatial resources
View the distribution of many animal species to evaluate Map of Life lxi
the importance of the environment and geography to
animals and people.
How can people use places and environments more sustainably?
Learning experiences and teaching strategies Spatial resources
We currently have no learning experiences or teaching strategies for this section. If you have any
suggested tasks please share with us by contacting spatialeducation@dnrme.qld.gov.au
lv http://mapmaker.nationalgeographic.org/
lvi http://www.scribblemaps.com/
lvii https://www.openstreetmap.org/
lviii https://www.google.com/mymaps
lix http://www.ala.org.au/
lx http://www.bom.gov.au/australia/meteye/
lxi https://mol.org/
Queensland Spatial Educators’ Toolkit Primary P-6 8Year 5: Factors that shape the human and environmental
characteristics of places
Key inquiry questions
• Where are we in our region and the world?
• What makes places unique?
• How do environments and people influence each other?
• How do people influence the human characteristics of places?
• How do people manage spaces within places?
• How can the influence of hazards that affect people be reduced?
Year 5 toolkit
Where are we in our region and the world?
Learning experiences and teaching strategies Spatial resources
Students can examine their location in Queensland, the Online map services lxii
countries around Australia and the countries in the Asian Google Earth lxiii
region using an online map service or a 3D map viewer.
Queensland Globe lxiv
Students can create a short tour highlighting places they Google Tour Builder lxv
would like to visit in the Asian region that includes images,
video and written content.
What makes places unique?
Learning experiences and teaching strategies Spatial resources
Create an animated tour around a number of significant Queensland Globe lxvi
locations highlighting what makes each place special, Google Tour Builder lxvii
significant or unique. Focus on different environmental,
economic, social or cultural features of each place.
Examine the topography of your local area and discuss what QTopo lxviii
how it is unique in Queensland.
Queensland Spatial Educators’ Toolkit Primary P-6 9How do environments and people influence each other?
Learning experiences and teaching strategies Spatial resources
Queensland Globe lxix
Examine the ways in which people change
environments by visualising these changes using an Google Earth lxx
online satellite image viewer. Consider how a place has
been changed from an entirely natural state.
How do environments change people? Look for specific Online map services lxxi
evidence in satellite images to show how people have NASA How to interpret a satellite image lxxii
adjusted to suit their environment. Consider where
Google Earth lxxiii
people live (i.e. underground in heat), how they travel,
(i.e. by boat if near a river), what they do for an income
and how they spend their money.
Assess the hazard risk for individual hazards across NICTA Global Risk Map lxxiv
Australia and the globe. Use embedded data to view
historical hazard events as well as the risk associated
with different hazards.
Collect data on where natural disaster events occur in Disaster Mapper lxxv
Australia and the different type of events. Students can
create their own map highlight hazard risk across
Australia.
Observe the distribution of bushfire events across Digital Earth Australia Hotspots lxxvi
Australia live or by searching for particular dates.
Overlay topography and consider the land use at the
areas that you have searched.
How do people influence the human characteristics of places?
Learning experiences and teaching strategies Spatial resources
Create a simple land use map of your local area or an Scribble Maps lxxvii
area of study from the unit using appropriate colours to OpenStreetMap lxxviii
represent residential, commercial and industrial land use
Google My Maps lxxix
and other relevant features such as facilities.
Find out the demographic makeup of the local area Google My Maps lxxx
using the ABS QuickStats tool. ABS Quick Stats lxxxi
You could import these into Google My Maps to observe
demographic patterns around your school.
How do people manage spaces within places?
Learning experiences and teaching strategies Spatial resources
Queensland Globe lxxxii
Examine land zoning in the Queensland Globe. Data
can be found on current zoning conditions as well as
upcoming residential land releases. Combine zoning
data with other data layers to see the relationship
between zoning and land use.
Queensland Spatial Educators’ Toolkit Primary P-6 10How can the influence of hazards that affect people be reduced?
Learning experiences and teaching strategies Spatial resources
Use the USGS earthquake mapper to view current (or USGS Latest Earthquake map lxxxiii
historical) earthquake events from around the globe.
Annotate an online map with recommendations for Scribble Maps lxxxiv
changes in an area that make it less susceptible to the OpenStreetMap lxxxv
bushfire hazard.
Google My Maps lxxxvi
Consider where major hazard events have occurred in Disaster Mapper lxxxvii
Australia and the impacts on people, communities and
the economy.
Use an online map creator to create a digital hazard Google Tour Builder lxxxviii
journal. Record information about the location and the Scribble Maps lxxxix
impacts of major hazard events that occur throughout
OpenStreetMap xc
your unit. Ask students to identify patterns of
distribution or impacts at the end of the unit. Google My Maps xci
lxii https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_online_map_services
lxiii https://www.google.com/earth/
lxiv https://qldglobe.information.qld.gov.au/
lxv https://tourbuilder.withgoogle.com/
lxvi https://qldglobe.information.qld.gov.au/
lxvii https://tourbuilder.withgoogle.com/
lxviii https://qtopo.information.qld.gov.au/
lxix https://qldglobe.information.qld.gov.au/
lxx https://www.google.com/earth/
lxxi https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_online_map_services
lxxii http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Features/ColorImage/
lxxiii https://www.google.com/earth/
lxxiv http://globalriskmap.nicta.com.au/
lxxv https://knowledge.aidr.org.au/disasters
lxxvi https://hotspots.dea.ga.gov.au/
lxxvii http://www.scribblemaps.com/
lxxviii https://www.openstreetmap.org/
lxxix https://www.google.com/mymaps
lxxx https://www.google.com/mymaps
lxxxi http://www.abs.gov.au/websitedbs/censushome.nsf/home/quickstats
lxxxii https://qldglobe.information.qld.gov.au/
lxxxiii http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/map/
lxxxiv http://www.scribblemaps.com/
lxxxv https://www.openstreetmap.org/
lxxxvi https://www.google.com/mymaps
lxxxvii https://knowledge.aidr.org.au/disasters
lxxxviii https://tourbuilder.withgoogle.com/
lxxxix http://www.scribblemaps.com/
xc https://www.openstreetmap.org/
xci https://www.google.com/mymaps
Queensland Spatial Educators’ Toolkit Primary P-6 11Year 6: A diverse and connected world
Key inquiry questions
• Where are we in our region and the world?
• How do places differ across the world?
• How do people and cultures differ across the world?
• What are Australia’s connections, regionally and globally, between people and places?
• How does people’s connection to place affect their perception of place?
• How do global connections change people and places?
Year 6 toolkit
Where are we in our region and the world?
Learning experiences and teaching strategies Spatial resources
Use an online mapping tool to view Asia, the different regions Online map services xcii
and countries in Asia and to view the location of Australia in Google Earth xciii
relation to our region and the world.
How do places differ across the world?
Learning experiences and teaching strategies Spatial resources
Use Google Street View to undertake a virtual field trip to Google Street View via Maps xciv
another country. Consider the differences between the place
you visit and your local area.
Compare and contrast urban environments from around the Urban Observatory xcv
world using the visualisations and statistics provided.
Consider what factors may be behind the differences in urban
areas. How do Australia’s urban areas compare to those
presented?
How do people and cultures differ across the world?
Learning experiences and teaching strategies Spatial resources
Examine different social, economic and cultural indicators UN Human Development Indicators xcvi
across the globe to highlight differences in development Gapminder xcvii
between countries around the world.
View cartograms across a range of economic, social, ShowRWorld xcviii
environmental, political and cultural indicators. Ask students
to predict how the data will look before checking on the map,
question the difference between expectation and reality.
Queensland Spatial Educators’ Toolkit Primary P-6 12What are Australia’s connections, regionally and globally, between people and
places?
Learning experiences and teaching strategies Spatial resources
Examine the spatial distribution of the predominant migrant SBS Where Australia’s immigrants were
groups in your local area. Link this distribution to real world born map xcix
artefacts.
Survey the class to determine place of birth or ancestry. Google Tour Builder c
Create a Google Earth tour that visits each of the countries
represented in the survey results.
How does people’s connection to place affect their perception of place?
Learning experiences and teaching strategies Spatial resources
Visit one of many cultural institutions around the world that Google’s Cultural Institute ci
have made their exhibits available online. Examine a place
or places that are different to Australia and compare and
contrast the two places.
How do global connections change people and places?
Learning experiences and teaching strategies Spatial resources
View a representation of one measure of globalisation KOF Index of Globalisation cii
across the planet from 1970 to today.
View the individual components of each country’s Index of Harvard’s Connectography map ciii
Globalisation score. Consider how trade, finance, labour,
technology and other factors influence globalisation.
Critique the measure used on this website, how could it be
improved?
Create a map showing evidence of increasing global Scribble Maps civ
connections from your local area. Consider any example of OpenStreetMap cv
cultural connection or exchange such as food, shops,
Google My Maps cvi
places of worship etc.
xcii https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_online_map_services
xciii https://www.google.com/earth/
xciv https://www.google.com.au/maps
xcv http://www.urbanobservatory.org/compare/index.html
xcvi http://hdr.undp.org/en/data/
xcvii http://www.gapminder.org/
xcviii http://show.mappingworlds.com/world/
xcix http://www.sbs.com.au/news/map/where-australias-immigrants-were-born-brisbane
c https://tourbuilder.withgoogle.com/
ci https://www.google.com/culturalinstitute/home
cii http://globalization.kof.ethz.ch/maps/
ciii http://worldmap.harvard.edu/maps/connectography
civ http://www.scribblemaps.com/
cv https://www.openstreetmap.org/
cvi https://www.google.com/mymaps
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