A letter to me

Topic: Australian Places
Student activity
Geography: Year 1 and Year 2

This is the student activity 1 of 4 of the People and places: Australian places learning activity.

Task No. 1

A letter to me

Address an envelope to yourself using the step by step instructions for addressing envelopes on the Australia Post website. Each part represents the scale of places.

Paste an envelope in the centre of a page. Paste or draw and label a picture of you in a place that represents each scale:

  • Street address – personal scale – your house or street
  • Suburb – local scale – your school, park or shops
  • Stamp and postcode – national scale – a place in Australia you would like to visit

Use the image in the downloadable resource to draw arrows to connect your drawings with the scale of places in your address on the envelope