Australia

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This is a sampling of the great instructional resources that can be found on LEARN NC to teach students about the Commonwealth of Australia.

Australian Travel Adventure: Students will learn information about each of Australia’s states and territories by researching information from Internet sites. They will then take what they have learned and decorate the outline of a car with symbols and pictures that represent information gained from their research.
Asian, African, or Australian Inventors & Inventions: The lesson integrates both Social Studies and Language Arts in a research and a creative writing component. The student will further understand inventors or inventions from Asia, Africa, and Australia, the focused continents in the 7th grade Social Studies curriculum, as well as have the opportunity to develop his/her writing, reading, and oral communication skills. The project also incorporates mathematics with an emphasis on percentages and graphing.
Graphing Climate Information: Students learn to plot the data for the average monthly precipitation for three cities: Alice Springs, Australia; New Dehli, India; and Tokyo, Japan.

Documenting a Democracy: Australia’s story told through the founding documents and primary sources of historical importance. Navigate by Timeline or Pathway or click on the map to locate materials by place.
Australia Downunder: Learn about the history, geography, culture, cities and more from this ThinkQuest site.
Indigenous Australia: This site from that Australian Museum has stories and background information about the Aboriginal or Indigenous Australians. The stories are available in text, audio and video formats.
Bunyips: Bunyips are legendary spirits or creatures of the Australian Aborigine which are said to haunt rivers, swamps, creeks and billabongs. Learn all about bunyips and hear some of the aboriginal folktales about them, too.