Week 1
 Exploring the Earth
Students to
Also students can begin to understand the North/South divide
Understand direction and bearing
– North, South, East and West
Introduction to the 4 topic areas – History,
Geography, P+L and Economics.
List countries on the board that students in the class have visited. Place these in a table, with two other columns – continent and features.
Introduce students to Atlases and how to use them (Contents, Index, Keys)
BOLTS
Explain what continents and countries are
Students to complete Continents Booklet.
Atlas
SOSE Alive 1 – Chapter 7

Lessons
Week 2
Week 3
Latitude and Longitude
Water in the World.
The classification of environmental resources and the forms that water takes as a resource (ACHGK037)
Teach students what Latitude and
Longitude is and why we use it. Teach students major lines of Latitude and
Longitude.
Teach students how to locate places using
Latitude and Longitude.
Latitude and Longitude PPT
Latitude and Longitude
Activities
Students to brainstorm resources – what are they and how they enable us to live.
Students to read and understand types of resources. Read pg 42-43 Oxford Big Ideas
Geography 7 answer Qu. 1-4.
Environmental Resources:
Overview pdf
Create collage of 3 types of resources on computer as a cover page.
MAPPING TEST
Discuss with students which resource they would consider the most important.
Interconnections Activity: Give students a card with a word on it. Ask students to form groups of three with cards that have words that relate to their word. Discuss relationships and meanings of each group with class.
Activity Book “All’s Well” pg 9 https://www.youtube.com
/watch?v=9e1ccP2P0Fk
Students to understand the Water Cycle.
Watch the Water Cycle available on
YouTube https://www.youtube.com
/watch?v=al-do-HGuIk
Students to draw it themselves and keep in

Week 4 The ways that flows of water connect places as it moves through the environment and the way this affects places
(ACHGK038)
The quantity and variability of
Australia’s water resources compared with those in other continents (ACHGK039)
The nature of water scarcity and ways of overcoming it, including studies drawn from Australia and
West Asia and/or North Africa
(ACHGK040)
The economic, cultural, spiritual and aesthetic value of water for people, including Aboriginal and
Torres Strait Islander Peoples and peoples of the Asia region
(ACHGK041) file. Students can form groups and act out the journey of a raindrop through the water cycle.
Students to read pg 52 – 53 Oxford Big
Ideas 7 and answer Q1-5 “How rivers connect places”
“How Rivers Connect
Places” pdf
Read pg 46 – 47 and complete PQE Skill exercise and Q1-4 “Accessing Water
Resources”
Show students “The story of bottled water” Discuss thoughts on water access.
Water Vulnerability Role Play Activity and
Why-Why-Why Chain https://www.youtube.com
/watch?v=Se12y9hSOM0
Pg 10 – 11 “All’s Well”
Show students “Drop by Drop”
“Drop by Drop”
Students to read information on website: http://www.globaleducation.edu.au/casestudies/wells-and-pumps-in-niger.html
https://www.youtube.com
/watch?v=44WaI3jJzrY
Write an account from a child in Niger whose life has been improved by a water pump.
Read pg 116-117 Geography for the
Australian Curriculum “The difficulty of managing water” and complete Activities 1 and 2.
“The Difficulty of Managing
Water” pdf
Managing the Mekong Case Study Activity

Week 6
Week 5 pg 14 – 14 “All’s Well”
Students to read pg 94 and 95 “New Ways of thinking about Water” Oxford Big Ideas and complete Q1-6
Read pg 108 – 109 GeoWorld7 “Variable access to quality water across Australia and complete Q1-6
Read pg 110-111 GeoWorld7 “Population and water distribution in Australia and complete Inquiry and Skills Activities
Read pg 112 – 113 GeoWorld 7“Water
Resources: How does Australia compare” and complete Q1-6
Show students “Managing Groundwater” and complete viewing activities
Show students “How does desalination work?” and complete viewing activities
“New Ways of Thinking
About Water” pdf
“Variable access to quality water across Australia” pdf
“Population and water distribution in Australia” pdf
“Water Resources
Comparison” pdf http://splash.abc.net.au/m edia/-/m/29871 http://splash.abc.net.au/m edia/-/m/524895

Week 8
Week 9
Week 7
The causes, impacts and responses to an atmospheric or hydrological hazard (ACHGK042)
Read pg 50 -51 “Perth’s Water Supply
Broadsheet and complete Skill Activities and Q1-6
Students to view “Groundwater
Replenishment Trial”
Read pg 164 -165 of GeoWorld 7 and complete GeoActivities.
Discuss some of the debate topics.
ASSESSMENT TASK: Debate – “Should
Perth use recycled water for use in households?”
Divide students into even numbers of affirmative and negative groups of three.
Give students a week to prepare topic and then debate in class.
Read pg 98 – 99 “Why rivers flood” Oxford
Big Ideas 7 and complete activities 1-6
“Perth’s Water Supply” pdf http://www.watercorporat
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“Why Rivers Flood” Pdf
“Floods in Australia” pdf

Week 10
Read pg 100-101 “Floods in Australia” and complete activites 1-7
Read pg 102 – 103 “How floods affect people and places” and complete activities
1 – 6
“How floods affect people and places” pdf
“Queensland’s inland
Tsunami” pdf
Read pg 104 – 105. “Queensland’s Inland
Tsunami” Show documentary “Lockyer
Valley Floods” and complete activities 1-8
Read pg 106 – 107 “Preparing for floods” and complete activities 1-7.
ASSESSMENT TASK: Students to prepare a brochure for residents in a QLD town affected by flooding in 2011 advising them of risks from flooding and ways to prepare and respond in the event of a flood. https://www.youtube.com
/watch?v=mdBYf3rEc6E
“Preparing for floods” pdf http://www.ready.gov/kid s/games
Students to go to website http://www.ready.gov/kids/games and complete Disaster Master Game and
Build a Kit Game.