HASS Geography Year 3 Australia's Neighbouring Countries Climate Digital

This pack is full of hands-on, printable engaging activities for learning about Australia’s neighbouring countries and comes with an interactive PowerPoint™ and Google Slide™ digital resource about climates which covers asking questions, identifying climate types, their features and impact on the environment, climatic maps, and interpreting data in graphs and tables.

There are map activities and 14 sketch note graphic organisers which your students can use to help them locate Australia and its neighbours, and to find similarities and differences in daily life, climate, natural, managed, and constructed features, schools, festivals and holidays, houses, plants and animals, climate, and types of settlement.

Students can use globes, atlases and digital maps to find the information they need for the map work. They can use online sources and books for other research tasks.

What’s included in the printable pack:

• Label a map of Australia and its neighbours.
• Label a map of the Pacific Island nations.
• Foldable activity to show the directions of different neighbours.
• Label a climate map of Australia with a title, key and north point. (new)
• Travel brochure for children to write about one country.
• Compare their house and a house in Indonesia.
• Compare several traditional houses. (new)
• Compare built structures (Jakarta city scene and Candi Prambanan Temple in Indonesia to a built structure of their choice in Australia)
• Compare rice growing in Australia and Indonesia. (updated)
• Natural features of different neighbours (updated)
• Types of settlement (new)
• Foldable similarities and differences shapes to write on
• Foldable climate types activity (new)
• Poster of Australia’s climate (new)
• Types of settlement with Google Maps™ activity (new)*

What’s included in the sketch note pack:

• 14 sketch note graphic organisers for Pacific region countries
• 11-slide PowerPoint for using satellite images to identify natural, managed and built features

What’s included in the digital resource:

• 48 slides for PowerPoint™ or Google Slides™
• Printable climate type activity
• Printable table and graph activity
• Printable climatic map of Australia

Each mini lesson has the learning objective at the start. You can use the slides that are most useful for your students and delete any you don’t need, and the text is editable so you can adapt it if needed.

Mini Lessons:

• Ask questions to inquire and probe deeper.
• Identify different climate types.
• Identify the features of different climate types.
• Construct a climatic map.
• Interpret climate data to describe temperature and rainfall.
• Create a table and bar graph in Excel or Google Sheets™**

I hope your students enjoy learning about Australia’s neighbouring countries with this pack.