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Listed under:  Science  >  Earth and space  >  Geographic location  >  Navigation  >  Landmarks
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Orienteering: using a map and compass

  • TLF-IDM015670

Orienteering requires knowledge of directions, an ability to read a map and the use of a magnetic compass. Find out about the basics of orienteering.

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Drawing a floor plan

  • TLF-IDM015824

How do we know what a house will look like before it is built? Discover how house plans work by looking at the design of a house that Hugo's family is going to build. See how a floor plan shows the room layout. See drawings of what the house will look like from different views.

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Treasure hunt

  • TLF-IDM018740

Can you read a map and follow directions? Well if you can chances are you can help us find the buried treasure. You'll need to know right from left, east from west, clockwise from anti-clockwise and over from under. Got all that? See you at Buccaneer's Refuge 'me hearties, arrgh'. Remember X marks the spot!

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Rainforest: use a grid map

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Use grid references to find places on a map. Follow instructions to find four locations. As you go, look up the meaning of tricky words.

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Rainforest: make a walking track

  • TLF-IDL352

Mark the route for a walking track on a map of a rainforest. Choose a section of track based on instructions about distances, compass directions and grid references. Keep adding sections of track to get to the rest house. As you go, look up the meaning of tricky words.

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'Budgerigars in the Sandhills' by Billy Stockman Tjapaltjarri, 1975

  • TLF-IDR10010

This acrylic painting represents the travels of the Budgerigar ancestors during the Dreaming. On their journey, the ancestors stop to camp in sandhill country around Ilpitirri near Mount Denison. The camps are depicted as concentric circles superimposed on a background mosaic of sand dunes, broken by patches of desert plants. ...

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'The eight Dreamings', 1991

  • TLF-IDR4933

This is a painting in synthetic polymer paint on canvas made in 1991 by Michael Nelson Tjakamarra (c1946-). Measuring 227 cm x 227 cm, the work is a 'dot style' painting that shows a plan-view map of country with various Dreaming sites marked by symbols. The main motif of the composition is a thick red line with five circles ...

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Painting Country, 2000: Maps of country

  • TLF-IDR7217

This clip shows full-screen shots of Aboriginal paintings that are maps of the artists' country or homeland. These paintings trace the land's topography, but also contain personal history, mythology and the Dreaming tracks that crisscross this country. Aboriginal lawman Tjumpo Tjapanangka is shown talking about his land ...

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'Wanatjalnga' by Charlie Tjaruru (Tarawa) Tjungurrayi, 1974

  • TLF-IDR9947

This acrylic painting represents a woman called Walinngi who travelled alone during the Dreaming towards the Gordon Hills in Western Australia. In the claypan and hill country near Wanatjalnga she tracked a small bird to its nest, a hole in the ground, into which it disappeared. Walinngi made a wana (digging stick), cutting ...

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'Honey ant hunt' by Tim Leura Tjapaltjarri, 1975

  • TLF-IDR9982

This acrylic painting depicts the three hills at Papunya that form an important Dreaming site, representing the body of a huge ancestral honey ant. They also indicate where ancestral honey ants returned to the ground after travelling during the Dreaming. The underground network of ant chambers is regarded as a tula (meeting ...

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'Tingarri Dreaming at Nariboruka' (Naripuruka) by George (Dr George) Tjapaltjarri, 1977

  • TLF-IDR9988

This acrylic painting represents Naripuruka, a cluster of rock holes deep in the sandhill country of the Pintupi people. A large group of Tingarri Men gathered there for secret ceremonies. In the narrative associated with this place the key ancestor is Luurnpa (the Old Kingfisher Man). The painting by George (Dr George) ...

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Teacher resource

From here to there - teacher resource

  • TLF-IDM009125

This teacher resource describes how students can use problem-solving skills as they give and follow directions to familiar or unfamiliar places using the spatial visualisation tool, SpatialGenie.

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Using and adapting resources

  • TLF-IDM017077

Here, the graduate teacher reflects on her use and adaptation of a professional learning resource for teaching a grid reference system in mathematics, when preparing for, and reflecting on her teaching of students at St Aloysius' School. She outlines those aspects of the resource she finds particularly beneficial. These ...

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Measurement and Geometry- Location and transformation

  • TLF-IDM018910

This is a unit of work that uses farming to explore the measurement and geometry concepts of grid references, directional language, area and length. It has a teacher directed task that introduces directional language and grid references and two student work tasks. The work tasks involve designing a farm using a grid and ...

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Mixed-Up Maths

  • TLF-IDM019368

Join our host, Ed, as he finds himself in all types of situations where only his knowledge of Maths can help him. From saving the planet from Aliens, to creating a superhero that can stop a strawberry milkshake tidal wave. From searching for buried treasure, to jumping like a daredevil, or planning the greatest circus party ...

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