Australia

Introduction

Hello, I am Max.

The following week I am going to incorporate to my new job in Australia.

I am really worried, because I do not know that country. For this reason, I need your help.

Do you want to help me?

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Task

The task consists in invetigate and look for information about the country in order to help Wally to solve his problems. 

 

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Process

You are now ready to begin your quest for information about Australia. You and your partner will search together for the answers.

Most of the questions below link to worksheets. Read each worksheet and take turns writing down your answers on a sheet of paper.

 

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In the first place, I don't know where Australia is.

But, recently I have found several clues in order to localize it.

 

1) Are you able to find out Australia? 

https://mapasinteractivos.didactalia.net/en/community/mapasflashinteractivos/resource/continents-and-oceans-of-the-world/df0ed3bc-50da-4b05-a85e-d2d7b68d5fdf

https://sciencetrends.com/7-continents-map-printable-continents-5-oceans/

 

 

2) In the second place, I must move in that country. I prefer live in a city.

Could you suggest me the biggest cities of Australia?

Is there any interesting things to visit in this cities?

 

http://www.geonames.org/AU/largest-cities-in-australia.html

https://blog.id.com.au/2018/population/population-trends/the-50-largest-cities-and-towns-in-australia-by-population-2018-update/

https://www.worldatlas.com/articles/biggest-cities-in-australia.html

https://travelingcanucks.com/2011/06/must-see-monuments-in-australia/

https://traveltips.usatoday.com/australias-top-ten-national-monuments-108148.html

 

3) Finally, I would like to know more things about Australia: animals, plants, language, climate... 

Collect information about at least three of them.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y6AxbKkdBQc

https://www.ytravelblog.com/about-australia-facts/

 

Evaluation

 

          QUESTIONS

 

                             Excellent   (3)

 

            Good   (2)

 

       Needs      

  improvement   (1)

 

Are you able to find out Australia? 

 

We have found Australia easily. Moreover, we know the hemisphere, continent, and countries around.

 

We have found Australia with difficulty.  

 

Oh no! We haven’t found Australia.

Next time we will get it!

 

Could you suggest me the biggest cities of Australia?

 

 

 

We know the five biggest cities of Australia. Besides, we can order them from biggest to smallest.

 

 

We know only three of the biggest cities of Australia.

 

 

In my opinion, the cities of Australia seem to me equal.

 

Are there any interesting things to visit in these cities?

 

 

 

We nearly to become the best tour guides of Australia.  

 

 

We have found some interesting monuments to visit.

 

 

Searching monuments we have finished lost.  

 

Collect information about three topics.

 

We are able to tell you more than three topics of Australia.

 

We are able to tell you 2-3 things about Australia.

 

Sorry, we just know one thing of Australia.

 

Conclusion

Now, we have finished the task and know lots of knowledge about Australia. So Wally will be able to travel to Australia in a confident way.

 

THANKS FOR YOUR HELP!

SEE YOU SOON.

WALLY

 

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Credits

This Webquest was created by Nicolas Hernán, Andrea Cabrera and Rosa Maria Torres.

This Webquest is done as a part of CLIL course of  Valencian Catholic University. 

Teacher Page

Course: 4 th of Primary

Subject: Science, Geography, English as a cross curricular learning.

Materials: Web resources

Teaching Objectives: 

  • To localize a country in the worldmap.
  • To create a list of items (cities) and sort them.
  • To seek information about some topics.
  • To use the ICT rigthly.
  • To evalute the self work.

Learning Outcomes:

  • Content: Animals, plants, cities, countries, monuments...
  • Cognition: - Localize cities and countries. 

                            - Identify animals and plants.

                            - Order numbers (population) from biggest to smallest.

                            - Describe climes and distinguish them.

  • Communication: - Language of (animals, plants, cities, countries, monuments, weather, clime...)

                                       - Language for: 1) ______________ is in the south hemisphere.

                                                                 2) The biggest/smallest city is__________.

                                                                 3) ____________ lives in _____________.

                                                                 4) _________ is bigger/smaller than________.

  •  Culture: - To be aware to work in pairs.

                         - To be aware to appreciate other cultures.

                         - To be aware of the correct use of the ITC.

Competences:

  • Autonomy, initiative and decision taking.
  • Learning to learn competence.
  • Linguistic communication and audio-visual.
  • Digital competence.
  • Artistic and cultural.