VCGGK063
Representation of the location of places and their features on maps and models, including a globe, and the location of the major geographical divisions of the world in relation to Australia
Elaborations
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creating story-maps or models to represent the location of the places and features in their local area, or class stories, poems or rhymes
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identifying the ways Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples represent the location of Country/Place and their features. For example, by inscriptions on stone, stories, sand, bark and cave paintings, song, music and dance
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describing how the globe is a representation of the world and locating Australia and other places on a globe
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using geographical tools, such as a globe and world map, or electronic atlases, to locate the continents, oceans, equator, North and South Poles, tropics and hemispheres and then labelling an outline map
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describing the location of continents and oceans relative to Australia using terms such as north, south, near, far
VCGGK063 | The Humanities | Geography | Foundation to Level 2 | Geographical Knowledge | Places and our connections to them
