Knowledge
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Locate a specific desert using an atlas (pairs)
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Brainstorm everything we know about the desert
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Find information from CDROM, books, internet
and pictures to describe a Thorny Devil (with
Librarian)
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Find information from
CDROM, books, internet and pictures to describe a desert animal or desert
dweller
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Comprehension
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Predict various desert landscapes from the
atlas exercise
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Describe a variety of desert landforms and
how they are created
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Predict what Ayers Rock may look like in 100
years
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Application
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Show Miss Webster where your desert is on
the class world map - and collate into books
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Solve the problems of some of the famous desert
explorers
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Make a diorama that illustrates the ideal
environment of the desert dweller or animal researched
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Make damper twists and cook over open fire
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Cook sausages on a stick over a fire
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Cook marshmallows on a stick over a fire
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Cook a fish with a tent peg
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Cook bannanas stuffed with chocolate in a
fire
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Cook porridge in a camp oven overnight
for breakfast
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Analysis
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Compare how people live in the deserts of
the world
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Advertise the damage introduced plants
and animals have caused in Australian Deserts
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Synthesis
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Plan resources to survive a night in the desert
(campout
at Truscott Street PS April 2000)
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Invent a bicylcle for desert travel
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Devise a plan to eradicate desert erosion
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Evaluation
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Recommend changes to farming
that would reduce desertification in Australia
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Debate Aboriginal
Land rights with a partner
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Justify mining OR
military use of the deserts
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