Inquiry

Phases
Lessons Original
resource
Different
Geographica
l concepts
Geographical
skills
Assessment of student
learning
Teacher notes
column
Observing
and
questioning

Hook- Teacher to provide the hook
by entering classroom with a
suitcase.
Watch an introduction video.
Have the students map out Australia
and surrounding countries.
Discuss the countries around
Australia and ask them to think
about what countries that should be
visited.
Travel Video
Map of
Australia
Template


Starting
page journal
template

Space Visual skills,
Mathematical
skills
Completed Map of
Australia
Student
participation during
map labelling.
Hooking and
engaging the
students.
Establishing the
context for the
geography unit.
Discovering prior
knowledge.
Planning,
collecting
and
evaluating

Lesson 2:
Students develop research questions
for the unit. Use scribble maps to
map out the flight plan. Students
also label their own maps in the
travel journal.
Complete page 1 of travel journal.
Scribble
maps
example of
QLD trip
Page 2
journal.
Space





Visual skills,
Mathematical
skills





Development of
Questions for the
inquiry
Participating in the
scribble maps
Completing flight
plan on students
own maps
Filling in the travel
journal
Using digital
technologies
Research
questions and
flight plan
directed by
teacher
completed by
students.
Planning,
collecting
and
evaluating
PT2

Following lessons:
Extra lessons to visit Australian
capital cities, Indonesia, Papua New
Guinea, The Pacific Islands and New
Zealand.
Students watch videos, read reports,
complete research and write journal
entries about each destination.
Students address research
questions.
Northern
Territory
Information
report
Journals
Research
questions
Place,
Sustainability
Investigative
skills, Verbal
skills
Researching specific
information about
each destination.
Journal Entry
Researching
information.
Working with
peers.
Students are
directed by
research
questions.
Processing,
analyzing,
interpreting
and
concluding

Lesson 3:
Venn Diagram
Students analyse similarities and
differences between their chosen
location and Rockhampton,
Australia.

Venn
Diagram
example
Venn
Diagram
printable
Hand Drawn
Example
Map
Interconnecti
on
Investigative
skills, Thinking
skills
Venn diagram
Information Report
Students analyse
similarities and
differences.
Working with
peers
Higher order
thinking.

Communicat
ing

Lesson 4: Students to use
information gathered, and Venn
Diagram to create information
report to present to the class.
Directed by the established research
questions.
France
Information
report
example.
Place

Verbal skills
written and
oral
Presentation on
information report or
brochure.
Students develop
ideas and
information.
Various lessons
to plan and
present.
Reports follow
correct format
and contain
appropriate
information.
Reflecting
and
responding

Lesson 5: Last Journal entry to sum
up the whole trip. Details about
favourite destination and similarities
between the place and
Rockhampton. Students present
their ideas about which place is
better to live.
Reflecting
posters
journals
Interconnecti
on
place
Verbal skills Journal entries
Informative letter
Students reflect
on the unit of
work.
Reflect on their
own work/what
they have
learned.