An Overview
- Australia: The Land Down Under connects geography with writing and technology.
- Students use various resources such as encyclopedias, trade books, Internet Web sites, and magazines to learn about this unique land so far away.
- They learn about Australian animals, such as the kangaroo, wallaby and koala bear and write and publish books and stories in the classroom and online
- With information collected, students create and publish an Australian travel pamphlet
- They cook up some Australian cookies and make a class cookie graph
- They search for and locate Australian key pals and pen pals to learn first hand about life in the down under
- They investigate the weather patterns of the southern hemisphere and compare them to local weather patterns
- They use multimedia to create a slide show about Australia
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