Australia

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North Carolina regions: Working in cooperative groups, the students will learn about their assigned regions of North Carolina. A list of questions will be generated. When the research is completed, the students will design a way to orally present the information to the class. This also will integrate Visual Arts and Informational Skills.
East Asian trading ships: Each student will work with a partner as an owner of an overseas shipping company with one cargo ship in East Asia. Students are given these instructions in the overview: In each Asian country that you travel to you will fill your cargo ship with items that you can buy from the list of exports. You will then try to sell these items when you travel to another country that is willing to import these commodities. The winner of the game is the company with the biggest profits at the end of the pretend 15 day time period. Good Luck!
North Carolina regional travel brochure: The students will cooperatively design travel brochures that describe major physical and cultural characteristics of the regions in North Carolina.

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.