Contents Teachers' Notes 4 National Curriculum Links 5 SECTION 1: EXPLORING PLACES 6 The Names Of Places 7 Naming Places 8 Place Names 1 9 Place Names 2 10 Places In Australia 11 Australian Places 1 12 Australian Places 2 13 Australian Places 3 14 Australian Cities 15 Urban Australia 1 16 Urban Australia 2 17 Urban Australia 3 18 Urban Australia 4 19 Urban Australia 5 20 Living In Rural Australia 21 Rural Australia 1 22 Rural Australia 2 23 Rural Australia 3 24 Rural Australia 4 25 Rural Farming 26 Rural Farms 1 27 Rural Farms 2 28 Rural Farms 3 29 Karen Folktale Text 30 SECTION 2: UNDERSTANDING MAPS 31 Maps 32 Types Of Maps 33 Finding Places 34 Reading Maps 35 Labelling Maps 36 Creating Maps 37 Visual Maps 38 Seating Plan 39 Keys 40 Locating Features 41 Continents 42 Map Of Australia 1 43 Map Of Australia 2 44 SECTION 3: OUR ENVIRONMENT 45 Natural Resources 46 Managing Our Natural Resources 47 Waste 1 48 Waste 2 49 Waste 3 50 Caring For Our Land 1 51 Caring For Our Land 2 52 Caring For Our Land 3 53 Sand Makes Glass 54 From Sand to Glass 1 55 From Sand to Glass 2 56 National Parks/Local Heritage 57 Answers 58-60 3
Places In Australia Student Information Page Australians live in many different kinds of places on our big continent. Some people live in suburbs near the beach or on farms along slow-winding rivers. Other Australians live in deserts and build their houses under the ground to keep cool. Some people just love the snow and live in quiet mountain ranges, while others prefer the buzz of a big city. No matter where you live in Australia, it will have special features for you and others to enjoy. Let s pay a quick visit to a place called Tin Can Bay in south-east Queensland. Tin Can Bay is a little seaside town about 220 kilometres north of Brisbane. People say that the town s unusual name comes from the indigenous word for the area, Tuncanbar. Tuncanbar means dugong in the Ka bi language. The town has a population of 1,918, but many tourists visit during the holiday season. Fishing is the main industry and delicious prawns and crabs are caught in the warm waters of the bay. You can even meet and feed the friendly dolphins that visit the bay in the early morning. Boating, tennis and golf are other popular activities. The nearby Cooloola National Park has beautiful picnic areas and bushwalks. The rain forests and wetlands are home to parrots, possums, flying foxes and the Wallum rocket frog. 11
Australian Places 2 Read the information about Tin Can Bay on page 11. 1. Fill in the fact file below. fact file on tin can bay Place name: Meaning: Location: Population: Major attractions: 2. Is Tin Can Bay a place that you would like to visit? Give a reason for your answer. 3. How is the place where you live different to, or the same as Tin Can Bay? Fill in the table below to show your ideas. Share your ideas with a classmate. Different Same Visit Tin Can Bay with an online mapping tool at: 25º55 01.09 S 153º00 26.09 E. Section 1: Describing Places 13
Map Of Australia 2 Study the map below of Australia and its neighbouring countries of Oceania. Complete the questions by using the information from the map. Map Of Oceania Jakarta indonesia east timor papua new guinea solomon islands Darwin fiji 1. 2. Name four countries that belong to the Oceania region. True or false? Write your answers in the spaces. a. Canberra is closer to Wellington (the capital city of New Zealand) than it is to Perth. b. Darwin s nearest neighbour to the north-west is Indonesia. c. d. Indian Ocean 0 1000 KILOMETRES Perth Australia Adelaide Brisbane Perth is the furthest Australian state capital from Sydney. Adelaide is about 1,700 kilometres from Brisbane. pacific Ocean 3. Many of the nations of Oceania are made up of chains of islands. How do you think living on islands would be different to living on a continent like Australia? Sydney Canberra Melbourne Hobart new zealand Wellington 44 Section 2: Understanding Maps
Caring For Our Land 1 Indigenous Australians have known for many generations that we must care for the land and the sea. Dreaming Stories often describe what would happen to people and animals if natural resources were not used responsibly. Read the story below entitled The Sea Eagle and the Gull from the Bardi people of Cape Leveque, Western Australia. Long before people walked the Earth, there was a beautiful island in the ocean. This island was home to animals big and small. Snakes and lizards, birds and insects lived on the land. The ocean was full of dolphins, sharks, turtles, crocodiles and fish. All the animals were happy to call this island their home. Each animal had its place. The lizards ate the turtle s eggs and the crocodiles ate the lizards. In the ocean, the big fish ate the little fish and the sharks ate the big fish. The animals only ate what they needed. This was the natural way. It was the sea eagle s job to make sure that no animal was greedy and ate more than it needed. This was the job of all sea eagles, handed down from father to son since the beginning. One day the sea eagle needed to leave the island. He asked the gull to look after the island while he was gone. The gull was happy to do this. As he watched the eagle fly away he thought, Now I m the boss, I can The Sea Eagle and the Gull do as I please. The gull started eating more than his fair share of food and then he invited his gull friends to do the same. Soon all the animals were eating much more than they needed. Dugongs and crabs, sharks and parrots were eating everything in sight. Weeks passed. Food was not so easy to find. The animals realised that they had made a big mistake and had to leave the island to look for food in other places. When the sea eagle returned, he found the island almost empty. He knew what had happened and went straight to the gull. He asked, What s been going on here? The gull shook his head and replied in a cheeky voice, Nothing. There s still plenty of food around if you know where to look! To prove his point, the gull started eating scraps of food, pretending they were tasty. Well then, Gull, since you like eating the scraps other animals leave, you will never eat a fresh fish again. This is why you ll see gulls on the beach fighting over the tidbits of food which you leave. Section 3: Environment 51
Caring For Our Land 3 After reading The Sea Eagle and the Gull on page 51, answer the questions below. 1. 2. 3. Why was the island a happy place for the creatures to live? What was the sea eagle s job on the island? Why do you think the gull did such a bad job of looking after the island? Image Analysis Study the image below. What could be some of the consequences for the people and sea creatures in this area? Section 3: Environment 53
Types Of Maps Look at the different types of maps below. Label each map using the words in the text box. tourist transport floor plan political 1 Jakarta indonesia Indian Ocean art gallery theatre zoo Perth restaurant museum information centre east timor Darwin Australia papua new guinea Adelaide Brisbane Sydney Canberra Melbourne Hobart 2 pool motorway railway line airport port patio area lounge room bedroom 1 bedroom 2 bedroom 3 media room entrance kitchen bedroom 4 grassed area bathroom 1 bathroom 2 laundry rose and flower garden 3 4 Section 2: Understanding Maps 33