Geospatial Skills Activity Book Level 5
Australian Curriculum: Geography links
Activity
Name
1.
2.
On the Run
Mapping Marvin's
Moves
Hole in One
Location, location,
location!
Rattle Rattle
Away With the
Birds
The secret life of
Monarchs
7/2/Place and liveability
7/2/Place and liveability
Map reading/interpretation
Map reading/interpretation
Australia
Australia
7/2/Place and liveability
7/2/Place and liveability
Map reading/interpretation
Map reading/interpretation
Australia
Australia
8/1/Landforms & landscapes
8/1/Landforms & landscapes
Map reading/interpretation
Map/graph interpretation
Australia
Asia/Pacific
9/1/Biomes
Nth America
8.
Up, Up and Away
9/1/Biomes
9.
Wild bushfire
weather
Dry as a bone
Fire! Fire!
With a pack on my
back
The ride of your
life!
Life on the edge,
Grand Canyon style
Priscilla, queen of
the desert
Hazards of Oz
Swim for your life!
Mapped out!
Glow in the sky
Liquid gold
Postcard from
Antarctica
Signs and symbols
Jet Away
8/1/Landforms & landscapes
Map interpretation and
constructing bar graph
Reading and classifying
information
Wind graph construction
8/1/Landforms & landscapes
8/1/Landforms & landscapes
8/1/Landforms & landscapes
Line graph construction
Data interpretation
Topographic map interpretation
Australia
Australia
Australia
8/1/Landforms & landscapes
Graph and photo interpretation
Nth America
8/1/Landforms & landscapes
Map and photo interpretation
Nth America
8/1/Landforms & landscapes
Topographic map interpretation
Australia
8/1/Landforms & landscapes
8/1/Landforms & landscapes
7/2/Place and liveability
8/2/Changing Nations
7/1/Water
8/1/Landforms & landscapes
Data interpretation
Data and photo interpretation
Map reading/interpretation
Satellite and map reading
Map reading and construction
Pie graph; photo interpretation
Australia
Australia
Australia
Global
Australia
Antarctica
7/2/Place and liveability
9/2/Geographies of
Interconnections
9/2/Geographies of
Interconnections
7/1/Water in the world
Data and photo interpretation
Map reading
Australia
Global
Time zone map interpretation
Global
Graph and map interpretation
Australia
9/2/Geographies of
Interconnections
9/1/Biomes
Bar graph; data interpretation
Global
Map and satellite interpretation
Asia
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
10.
11.
12.
13.
14.
15.
16.
17.
18.
19.
20.
21.
22.
23.
24.
How well do you
know the world?
25.
26.
Victoria – from
mountains to
deserts
The World Game
27.
Chopped down
Year level / Unit /title
Skills
Region
Nth America
Australia
Geospatial Skills Activity Book Level 6
Australian Curriculum: Geography links
Activity
Name
Year level / Unit /title
1.
Climb every
mountain
Tathra Beach,
NSW: topo exercise
Tathra: land use
Pest invasion
Tiger tales
Maldives tourism
8/1/Landforms & landscapes
Map reading/interpretation
Africa
10/1/Env change and
management
10/1/Env change & manag’t
9/1/Biomes
9/1/Biomes
9/2/Geographies of
Interconnections
9/2/Geographies of
Interconnections
8/1/Landforms & landscapes
Map reading/interpretation
Australia
Map reading/interpretation
Map reading/interpretation
Map interpretation/constructing
Map interpretation
Australia
Australia
Asia
Asia
Data/photo interpretation
Asia
Africa
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
8.
Holidaying in
luxury
The snow on
Kilimanjaro
With a little help
from my friends
Skills
Region
10.
11.
Wind farms
Power from the
wind
10/1/Env change & manag’t
10/1/Env change & manag’t
12.
13.
14.
The bush
Haiti disaster
A hitch in helping
Haiti
Population plus
Housing density
Traffic woes and
flows
Countryside to city
Megacities
Dubai – growing up
and growing out
The impacts of war
How difficult is it to
get a drink of water
Eyjafjallajökull
volcano
Tropical Cyclone
Olga
The silver lining of
tropical cyclone
Upstream,
downstream
Flowing water
8/1/Landforms & landscapes
8/1/Landforms & landscapes
10/2/Human wellbeing
Map and satellite image
interpretation
Graph/diagram
reading/interpretation
Line graph construction
Topo map reading / Draw cross
sections
Photo interpretation
Map interpret/construction
Map and photo interpretation
10/2/Human wellbeing
7/2/Place and liveability
8/2/Changing Nations
Construct population pyramids
Construct scattergram
Construct pie graph
Australia
Australia
Australia
8/2/Changing Nations
8/2/Changing Nations
8/2/Changing Nations
Construct line graphs
Map construct & interpretation
Satellite interpretation
Australia
Global
Middle East
10/2/Human wellbeing
10/2/Human wellbeing
Graph, map, data interpretation
Map and photo interpretation
Middle East
Global
8/1/Landforms & landscapes
Map and photo interpretation
Europe
7/1/Water in the world
Map and data interpretation
Australia
7/1/Water in the world
Graph drawing
Australia
8/1/Landforms & landscapes
Map interpret/construction
Generic
8/1/Landforms & landscapes
Creating a long profile
Generic
9.
15.
16.
17.
18.
19.
20.
21.
22.
23.
24.
25.
26.
27.
8/1/Landforms & landscapes
Africa
Australia
Australia
Australia
Cen America
Cen America