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Travel stories

People and places: visiting places - holidays

1 / 4 available activities
Geography: Year 1 and Year 2
Topic: 
Visiting places - Holidays
Visiting places

Travel stories

Student activities

Task no. 1

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Travel stories

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?
Badgerys Creek Road, Badgerys Creek , 2014
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