Lesson plan - Walk around Australia
Walk Around Australia uses a map to track the distance students have covered to walk or cycle to school. This highly visual tool prompts students to walk or cycle more often, especially if they are challenged to complete the distance within a certain time (e.g. 1 week). You could even turn it into an inter-class competition.
Use the information in this guide to help you complete the activity with students. See also Links to Western Australian Curriculum on page 5.
Year level: Years Pre Primary – Year 6 Year Level: Pre-primary to Year 6
Learning outcomes
Students will be able to:
- Learn how to create an interactive digital map
- Understand how to read a map and know that symbols are used to represent different locations;
- Collect data, organise into categories and create displays using lists, tables, picture graphs and simple column graphs,
- Learn how to calculate the length of route using Google Maps or road maps.
- Learn how to evaluate data and mark off the distance travelled by students each day.
