Geography Science What are the continents? Find the continent of Australasia on Many of Australia’s best-known animals are a map of the world. What islands are in he continent? marsupials. Around 70% of the world’s marsupial species are only found on the Australian continent Locate the Equator and the Tropics of Capricorn and Cancer. (which includes mainland Australia, Tasmania and Use a map/globe or atlas to identify mountainous areas, urban New Guinea). areas, coasts and rivers, deserts and oceans. Create a fact file, PowerPoint or blog about an Find out other key information such as the climate, capital city, animal you would find on one of the islands of flora and fauna in the continent etc. Australasia. What is the population and where do people tend to live?
Boldmere Junior Explorers Project
The Continent of Australasia
History
Find out about the earliest Indigenous Australians. Where did they settle? What sort of lifestyle did they Art / DT/Music lead? How did they survive? This includes Aboriginal, Colonial, Landscape, Atelier, early- How was Australia and/or the other islands twentieth-century painters, print makers, photographers, and ‘discovered’ and by who? What impact did this have sculptors. Choose a type of art that interests you and research some on the islands? of the key ideas, techniques and working practices of the artists. Explore using your own ideas. Follow the link to make your own digeridoo. Can you make your own Conservation music? https://www.koolkidscrafts.com/make-a-didgeridoo.html What can you find out about the Great Barrier Evaluate your end product and design. Reef? What makes it so special?
What are the issues facing the Great Barrier Reef today and what can we do about it? P.E.
Film yourself recording a persuasive report on Watch the Haka. Can you recreate it? what we can do to make a change. Why does New Zealand do this dance before a match? What does it mean?