Queensland Spatial Educators’ Toolkit for the Australian Curriculum: Geography Primary (Prep – Year 6) December 2015 Version history Date Version Author Notes September 2015 1.0 Mick Law, QSIC Document first published December 2015 2.0 Mick Law, QSIC Minor revisions inc. removal of dead links and inclusion of new resources Contact for enquires This publication has been compiled by Mick Law of the Queensland Spatial Information Council, Department of Natural Resources and Mines, State of Queensland. All enquiries regarding this document should be directed to: QSIC Office, Land & Spatial Information Department of Natural Resources and Mines Phone: 07 3406 2807 Email: [email protected] Licence © State of Queensland, 2015 The Queensland Government supports and encourages the dissemination and exchange of its information. The copyright in this publication is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Australia (CC BY) licence. 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Queensland Spatial Educators’ Toolkit i Introduction........................................................................................................................................... iii Toolkit structure ................................................................................................................................... iii Using the toolkit ................................................................................................................................... iii 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 .............. 10 Year 6: A diverse and connected world .......................................................................................... 14 Queensland Spatial Educators’ Toolkit 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 i Association of Queensland, outlines the inquiry approach in Queensland geography classrooms. The Australian Geography Teachers Association’s Geogspace site also has a resource dedicated to ii Geographic inquiry . iii The ‘Key inquiry questions’ from the Australian Curriculum: Geography 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 iv Framework 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 http://www.geogspace.edu.au/support-units/geographical-inquiry/gi-introduction.html iii http://www.australiancurriculum.edu.au/ iv http://education.qld.gov.au/curriculum/framework/p-12/ v https://www.qcaa.qld.edu.au/26025.html ii Queensland Spatial Educators’ Toolkit 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 Use an online virtual 3D globe, satellite image viewer or map to view places that are familiar to students such as their house, the school, local shops, parks or main roads in the area. Spatial resources Online map services vii Google Earth vi What makes a place special? Learning experiences and teaching strategies Collect data on a field trip to a special place close to the school. Record location, take photographs and field sketch at each site. Collate all of this material into a virtual field trip. Spatial resources Google Tour Builder ix MapStory viii How can we look after places we live in? Learning experiences and teaching strategies Ask students to create a map either on a computer, tablet or interactive whiteboard the highlights places in the local area that need management, looking after or special care. Use appropriate symbols to represent features. Spatial resources Scribble Maps xi Umapper xii Mapbox x vi https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_online_map_services https://earth.google.com/ viii https://tourbuilder.withgoogle.com/ ix http://mapstory.org/ x http://www.scribblemaps.com/ xi http://www.umapper.com/ xii https://www.mapbox.com/editor vii Queensland Spatial Educators’ Toolkit 1 Year 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 xiii Use an online satellite image viewer such as Google Maps to view natural features and constructed features in a familiar environment such as the school. Online map services xiv Google Earth Examine the weather in your local area and monitor weather predictions using the Bureau of Meteorology’s tools. Bureau of Meteorology MetEye xv How are different places used? Learning experiences and teaching strategies Spatial resources Using an online map creator, view a satellite image of the neighbourhood around the school with the class. View different services and facilities in the area as well as the 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. Scribble Maps xvii Umapper xviii Mapbox xvi As a group, locate different types of land use and use the drawing tools to colour them using an appropriate colour. Discuss how your local area is used and compare to another local area nearby. Scribble Maps xx Umapper xxi Mapbox xix How can we care for places? Learning experiences and teaching strategies Use Google Street View to find places in your area that need 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 Spatial resources Google Street View via Maps xxii 2 xiii https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_online_map_services https://www.google.com/earth/ xv http://www.bom.gov.au/australia/meteye/ xvi http://www.scribblemaps.com/ xvii http://www.umapper.com/ xviii https://www.mapbox.com/editor xix http://www.scribblemaps.com/ xx http://www.umapper.com/ xxi https://www.mapbox.com/editor xxii https://www.google.com.au/maps xiv Queensland Spatial Educators’ Toolkit 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 xxiii Search through geotagged or geolocated imagery to see different places. Use search terms like ‘beach’, ‘desert’, forest’, ‘city’ or specific locations to view different places. Discuss why these places are all important in their own way. Panoramio xxiv Open Street View xxv Flickr map xxvi Geolocation.ws Examine all of the different indigenous nations that exist in Australia. Discuss indigenous connection to place through Dreamtime stories, art and more. ABC Indigenous Language Map xxvii Where is my place? Learning experiences and teaching strategies View your local area and see where your place is by using a digital 3D globe. View different scales by starting at your classroom, then viewing the school, your town/city, your region, Queensland, Australia and the world. Spatial resources Google Earth xxviii How are people connected to their place or other places? Learning experiences and teaching strategies Conduct research into a local indigenous Australian group or nation. Create a collective class map that illustrates important places such as sacred places, totems, paintings, cultural sites, carvings or more. These might be current or historic in nature. Queensland Spatial Educators’ Toolkit Spatial resources xxix Scribble Maps xxx Umapper xxxi Mapbox xxxii Google My Maps 4 How do we use different places? Learning experiences and teaching strategies Spatial resources xxxiii View an online satellite image viewer such as Google Earth. Ask students to try and interpret what they are viewing on screen. Start at your classroom and move to other familiar locations to 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. Google Earth xxxiv Online map services Create a map showing where people in their family might go during a typical day to illustrate patterns in movement of shopping, recreation, work, education, cultural or other reasons. Consider how this would have been different in their grandparents time; discuss how changing transport and information technology has influenced how we use the world around us. Scribble Maps xxxvi Umapper xxxvii Mapbox xxxviii Google My Maps xxxv xxiii http://www.panoramio.com/map http://openstreetview.org/ xxv https://www.flickr.com/map xxvi https://geolocation.ws/ xxvii http://www.abc.net.au/indigenous/map/ xxviii https://www.google.com/earth/ xxix http://www.scribblemaps.com/ xxx http://www.umapper.com/ xxxi https://www.mapbox.com/editor xxxii https://www.google.com/mymaps xxxiii https://www.google.com/earth/ xxxiv https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_online_map_services xxxv http://www.scribblemaps.com/ xxxvi http://www.umapper.com/ xxxvii https://www.mapbox.com/editor xxxviii https://www.google.com/mymaps xxiv Queensland Spatial Educators’ Toolkit 5 Year 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 xxxix Use an online 2D or 3D mapping application to view Australia’s visible natural and human features on a variety of maps or basemaps. View a satellite image, road map, terrain map and hybrid map to consider what format is best for different map features. Online map services xl Google Earth Focus on features of your local area or Queensland. Consider how natural features have impacted Queensland such as rivers (our cities and towns), soils (agriculture) and more. QTopo xlii Queensland Globe xli Note: Queensland Globe can only be viewed using Google Earth or Google Earth Pro. If one fails try the other. How and why are places similar and different? Learning experiences and teaching strategies Spatial resources xliii View current weather around the world and in our region using an online weather viewer. Collect data for different locations and compare weather at these locations. null school earth xliv Google Earth (weather layer) xlv Bureau of Meteorology MetEye Consider how places look different. View online satellite images of different places and compare how the land is used at each. 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. NASA How to interpret a satellite image xlvii Online map services Use the ABS Quick Stats website to gather demographic data from places in Australia such as your own location. Compare different places to see how places change as locations change. ABS Quick Stats Queensland Spatial Educators’ Toolkit xlvi xlviii 6 What would it be like to live in a neighbouring country? Learning experiences and teaching strategies Compare your country geographically and across a range of key indicators with any other country on earth. Spatial resources If it were my home xlix How can we protect special or unique places? Learning experiences and teaching strategies Ask students to create a map demonstrating how they would care for a particular important place. The place might be of local, regional, national or global significance. Spatial resources l Scribble Maps li Umapper lii Mapbox liii Google My Maps xxxix https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_online_map_services https://www.google.com/earth/ xli https://www.business.qld.gov.au/business/support-tools-grants/services/mapping-dataimagery/maps/topographic-maps xlii https://www.business.qld.gov.au/business/support-tools-grants/services/mapping-dataimagery/queensland-globe xliii http://earth.nullschool.net/ xliv https://www.google.com/earth/ xlv http://www.bom.gov.au/australia/meteye/ xlvi http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Features/ColorImage/ xlvii https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_online_map_services xlviii http://www.abs.gov.au/websitedbs/censushome.nsf/home/quickstats xlix http://www.ifitweremyhome.com/ l http://www.scribblemaps.com/ li http://www.umapper.com/ lii https://www.mapbox.com/editor liii https://www.google.com/mymaps xl Queensland Spatial Educators’ Toolkit 7 Year 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 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. National Geographic MapMaker Interactive Create a map showing the distribution of natural resources in Queensland. Consider national park, mining, forestry and other resources. Google My Maps lvi Scribble Maps lvii Mapbox lviii UMapper View a list of species for different locations around Australia. Consider the number and variety of species, the environment at each location, the land use in the area, climate and other geographical factors. Atlas of Living Australia Examine the weather in your local area and monitor weather predictions using the Bureau of Meteorology’s tools. Bureau of Meteorology MetEye liv lv lix lx How do different views about the environment influence approaches to sustainability? Learning experiences and teaching strategies View the distribution of many animal species to evaluate the importance of the environment and geography to animals and people. Spatial resources WWF WildFinder lxii Map of Life lxi 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 [email protected] Queensland Spatial Educators’ Toolkit 8 liv http://mapmaker.education.nationalgeographic.com/ https://www.google.com/mymaps lvi http://www.scribblemaps.com/ lvii https://www.mapbox.com/editor/#style lviii http://www.umapper.com/ lix http://www.ala.org.au/ lx http://www.bom.gov.au/australia/meteye/ lxi http://www.worldwildlife.org/science/wildfinder/ lxii https://mol.org/ lv Queensland Spatial Educators’ Toolkit 9 Year 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 countries around Australia and the countries in the Asian region using an online map service or a 3D map viewer. Online map services lxiv Google Earth Students can create a short tour highlighting places they would like to visit in the Asian region that includes images, video and written content. Google Tour Builder lxvi MapStory lxiii lxv What makes places unique? Learning experiences and teaching strategies Create an animated tour around a number of significant locations highlighting what makes each place special, significant or unique. Focus on different environmental, economic, social or cultural features of each place. Spatial resources lxvii Queensland Globe lxviii Google Tour Builder lxix MapStory Note: Queensland Globe can only be viewed using Google Earth or Google Earth Pro. If one fails try the other. Examine the topography of your local area and discuss what how it is unique in Queensland. Queensland Spatial Educators’ Toolkit QTopo lxx 10 How do environments and people influence each other? Learning experiences and teaching strategies Examine the ways in which people change environments by visualising these changes using an online satellite image viewer. Consider how a place has been changed from an entirely natural state. Spatial resources Queensland Globe lxxi Note: Queensland Globe can only be viewed using Google Earth or Google Earth Pro. If one fails try the other. lxxii How do environments change people? Look for specific evidence in satellite images to show how people have adjusted to suit their environment. Consider where 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. Online map services lxxiii NASA How to interpret a satellite image lxxiv Google Earth Assess the hazard risk for individual hazards across Australia and the globe. Use embedded data to view historical hazard events as well as the risk associated with different hazards. NICTA Global Risk Map Collect data on where natural disaster events occur in Australia and the different type of events. Students can create their own map highlight hazard risk across Australia. Disaster Mapper Observe the distribution of bushfire events across Australia live or by searching for particular dates. Overlay topography and consider the land use at the areas that you have searched. Sentinel Bushfire Map lxxv lxxvi lxxvii How do people influence the human characteristics of places? Learning experiences and teaching strategies Spatial resources lxxviii Create a simple land use map of your local area or an area of study from the unit using appropriate colours to represent residential, commercial and industrial land use and other relevant features such as facilities. Google My Maps lxxix Scribble Maps lxxx Mapbox lxxxi UMapper Find out the demographic makeup of the local area using the ABS QuickStats tool. You could import these into Google My Maps to observe demographic patterns around your school. Google My Maps lxxxiii ABS Quick Stats Queensland Spatial Educators’ Toolkit lxxxii 11 How do people manage spaces within places? Learning experiences and teaching strategies 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. Spatial resources Queensland Globe lxxxiv Note: Queensland Globe can only be viewed using Google Earth or Google Earth Pro. If one fails try the other. How 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 historical) earthquake events from around the globe. USGS Latest Earthquake map Annotate an online map with recommendations for changes in an area that make it less susceptible to the bushfire hazard. Scribble Maps lxxxvii Mapbox lxxxviii UMapper Consider where major hazard events have occurred in Australia and the impacts on people, communities and the economy. Disaster Mapper Use an online map creator to create a digital hazard journal. Record information about the location and the impacts of major hazard events that occur throughout your unit. Ask students to identify patterns of distribution or impacts at the end of the unit. Google Tour Builder xci MapStory xcii Scribble Maps xciii UMapper lxxxv lxxxvi lxxxix xc lxiii https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_online_map_services https://www.google.com/earth/ lxv https://tourbuilder.withgoogle.com/ lxvi http://mapstory.org/ lxvii https://www.business.qld.gov.au/business/support-tools-grants/services/mapping-dataimagery/queensland-globe lxviii https://tourbuilder.withgoogle.com/ lxix http://mapstory.org/ lxx https://www.business.qld.gov.au/business/support-tools-grants/services/mapping-dataimagery/maps/topographic-maps lxxi https://www.business.qld.gov.au/business/support-tools-grants/services/mapping-dataimagery/queensland-globe lxxii https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_online_map_services lxxiii http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Features/ColorImage/ lxxiv https://www.google.com/earth/ lxxv http://globalriskmap.nicta.com.au/ lxxvi https://disastermapper.ema.edu.au/ lxiv Queensland Spatial Educators’ Toolkit 12 lxxvii http://sentinel.ga.gov.au/ https://www.google.com/mymaps lxxix http://www.scribblemaps.com/ lxxx https://www.mapbox.com/editor/#style lxxxi http://www.umapper.com/ lxxxii https://www.google.com/mymaps lxxxiii http://www.abs.gov.au/websitedbs/censushome.nsf/home/quickstats lxxxiv https://www.business.qld.gov.au/business/support-tools-grants/services/mapping-dataimagery/queensland-globe lxxxv http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/map/ lxxxvi http://www.scribblemaps.com/ lxxxvii https://www.mapbox.com/editor/#style lxxxviii http://www.umapper.com/ lxxxix https://disastermapper.ema.edu.au/ xc https://tourbuilder.withgoogle.com/ xci http://mapstory.org/ xcii http://www.scribblemaps.com/ xciii http://www.umapper.com/ lxxviii Queensland Spatial Educators’ Toolkit 13 Year 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 Use an online mapping tool to view Asia, the different regions and countries in Asia and to view the location of Australia in relation to our region and the world. Spatial resources Online map services xcv Google Earth xciv 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 another country. Consider the differences between the place you visit and your local area. Google Street View via Maps Compare and contrast urban environments from around the 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? Urban Observatory Queensland Spatial Educators’ Toolkit xcvi xcvii 14 How do people and cultures differ across the world? Learning experiences and teaching strategies Spatial resources Examine different social, economic and cultural indicators across the globe to highlight differences in development between countries around the world. UN Human Development Indicators xcix Gapminder View cartograms across a range of economic, social, 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. ShowRWorld xcviii c What 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 groups in your local area. Link this distribution to real world artefacts. SBS Where Australia’s immigrants were born ci map Survey the class to determine place of birth or ancestry. Create a Google Earth tour that visits each of the countries represented in the survey results. Google Tour Builder ciii MapStory cii How does people’s connection to place affect their perception of place? Learning experiences and teaching strategies Visit one of many cultural institutions around the world that have made their exhibits available online. Examine a place or places that are different to Australia and compare and contrast the two places. Queensland Spatial Educators’ Toolkit Spatial resources Google’s Cultural Institute civ 15 How do global connections change people and places? Learning experiences and teaching strategies Spatial resources cv View a representation of one measure of globalisation across the planet from 1970 to today. KOF Index of Globalisation View the individual components of each country’s Index of 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? EY Globalisation Index map Create a map showing evidence of increasing global connections from your local area. Consider any example of cultural connection or exchange such as food, shops, places of worship etc. Google My Maps cviii Scribble Maps cix Mapbox cx UMapper cvi cvii xciv https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_online_map_services https://www.google.com/earth/ xcvi https://www.google.com.au/maps xcvii http://www.urbanobservatory.org/compare/index.html xcviii http://hdr.undp.org/en/data/map xcix http://www.gapminder.org/ c http://show.mappingworlds.com/world/ ci http://www.sbs.com.au/news/map/where-australias-immigrants-were-born-brisbane cii https://tourbuilder.withgoogle.com/ ciii http://mapstory.org/ civ https://www.google.com/culturalinstitute/home cv http://globalization.kof.ethz.ch/maps/ cvi http://www.ey.com/GL/en/Issues/Business-environment/Redrawing-the-map--globalization-and-thechanging-world-of-business---The-Globalization-Index-2009 cvii https://www.google.com/mymaps cviii http://www.scribblemaps.com/ cix https://www.mapbox.com/editor/#style cx http://www.umapper.com/ xcv Queensland Spatial Educators’ Toolkit 16
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