Activity 5.1: comparing an urban and a rural environment
Introduction
In this activity students research a place in Australia that is significantly different to where they live. They find differences and similarities for each place based on the categories used in Activity 4.1.
Duration
90–120 minutes
Resources
- Information and presentations from Activity 4.1
- Vocabulary list
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Activity stepsShow details
- Divide class into new groups that include an 'expert' from groups in Activity 4.1. Explain to students that they will need to share the research skills, geographical vocabulary and information from the previous activity with their new group members to complete this activity.
- Ask each group to research a place (an urban or a rural environment) that is different to where they live. (Ensure that each group chooses a different place to broaden the class bank of information about places in Australia.) Explain that they will need to gather information about the categories researched in the previous activity: Place, Space, Environment, and Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander connections.
- Instruct students to use the information they now have to compare the place where they live with the place they have just researched. They will need to answer the question: How are places where people live both similar and different?
- To enable students to organise their information about each place they could use a graphic organiser such as a T-chart or the organising worksheet you developed for Activity 3.1. Alternatively, students may come up with their own organising method.