Life and landscape in inner city Sydney and north-western NSW

Topic: Places are similar and different
Student activity
Geography: Year 3 and Year 4

Who are the people, what do they do and where do they live in Glebe and Gulargambone?

This is the student activity 1 of 4 of the Places are similar and different: Glebe and Gulargambone learning activity.

Task No. 1

Who are the people, what do they do and where do they live in Glebe and Gulargambone?

Fitness 'bootcamp' Blackwattle Bay, Glebe, 24/04/2010
Basketball outside Broadway Shopping Centre, Glebe, 2009
Street fashion
The Wingadee Stock Yards, Coonamble, 2004
children jumping from a tree
Swimming in the Castereagh River, Coonamble, 2003
Country life & drought in western NSW, 2002-2005 / photographed by Darren Clark

View and analyse the photographs of daily life in the inner city suburb of Glebe (Sources 4 to 6) and the rural area of Coonamble (Sources 6 to 8). Students record their observations on a comparison table.

Students research the services, facilities, activities and things to see and do in and around Glebe and Gulargambone.

Interview people who live in or have lived in inner city Sydney and a rural area of central or north-western NSW. The interview could be conducted with school students in the same grade using connected technologies such as Skype or Adobe Connect.