Travel stories

Topic: Visiting places - Holidays
Student activity
Geography: Year 1 and Year 2

This is the student activity 1 of 4 of the People and places: visiting places - holidays learning activity.

Task No. 1

Travel stories

Badgerys Creek Road, Badgerys Creek

As a class observe Source 1 and share stories imagining you are travelling on this road. 

Where are you going?
What type of vehicle are you in?
Are you travelling near or far?
Have you been to this place before?
What have you packed to take along with you?
Why are you travelling to this place?
Are you on holiday?

Formulating questions for inquiry

  • Why do we visit different places? (personal and holiday)
  • Where do we holiday? (local or global scale)
  • How does distance affect our ability to visit different places around the world?