Living with Australia’s natural vegetation

Australian Curriculum:
HASS, Geography
The importance of environments, including natural
vegetation, to animals and people (ACHASSK088)
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Purpose

This resource is designed to be used in a lesson after watching the video, Look out
Canberra! However, it can be used by itself as a way for students to investigate about
different vegetations in Australia and the role of the environment to animals and
people.

How to use the resource

1. Print codes, making sure it is one side only if you are wanting to fold and
laminate to keep or have the students cut out the pictures and paste onto
map.
2. Scan the code using a QR scanner app. You will need a device with a camera.
3. Watch and/or read the linked resource and students will use it to answer
questions about the types of vegetation, connections to people and animals
and sustainable practices.

Lesson idea (This is just one idea. Feel free to adapt the resource to suit your class)

Group students each with a large blank map of Australia and several QR codes for
one type of vegetation. Students scan the codes, learn about the vegetation and
answer the questions. Once completed, they move onto the next vegetation.
Students compare work with a ‘gallery walk’ and add any new information that is
needed.

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 Option 2 is single sided printing. CUT ALONG STRAIGHT LINE ONLY.
Image attributions at the end.

Forest

Tasmania logging

Forest

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 Option 2 is single sided printing. CUT ALONG STRAIGHT LINE ONLY.
Image attributions at the end.

Woodland

Mt Ainslie

ACT woodland

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Option 2 requires double sided printing or photos and QR codes will not match. Image attributions at the
end. CUT ALONG STRAIGHT LINE. FOLD ALONG DOTTED LONE.

ACT grassland

ACT grassland

Quoll

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Option 2 requires double sided printing or photos and QR codes will not match. Image attributions at the
end. CUT ALONG STRAIGHT LINE. FOLD ALONG DOTTED LONE.

desert

Savannah

Clearing

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Option 2 requires double sided printing or photos and QR codes will not match. Image attributions at the
end. CUT ALONG STRAIGHT LINE. FOLD ALONG DOTTED LONE.

Climate video

Climate map

Desert

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LINKS
New nature reserves to protect Canberra's endangered species http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-06-
01/nature-reserves-for-canberra/7464888
Mt Ainslie and Ngunnawal people https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M0InKSF3f7U
What is sustainability (plastic) http://mocomi.com/sustainability/
Australian climate https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e4HwV4a1V8Q
Land clearing https://www.bushheritage.org.au/who-we-are/about/our-challenge/land-clearing
Forest
-http://education.abc.net.au/home#!/media/1423363/
-http://education.abc.net.au/home#!/media/1436252/tasmania-s-ancient-pine-forests
-https://australianmuseum.net.au/image/forest-habitats
Desert
-http://education.abc.net.au/home#!/media/1436340/
http://education.abc.net.au/home#!/media/1436032/
http://education.abc.net.au/home#!/media/1436054/
https://australianmuseum.net.au/image/arid-habitats
Woodland
https://australianmuseum.net.au/image/woodland-habitats
-http://www.environment.gov.au/land/woodlands
-https://www.environment.act.gov.au/cpr/conservation_and_ecological_communities/lowland_woodlands
Grassland
http://education.abc.net.au/home#!/media/2450871/eastern-barred-bandicoots
-https://www.environment.act.gov.au/cpr/conservation_and_ecological_communities/grasslands
-ACT quoll https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ORC9eqmWY8

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