Special Places Puzzles
These puzzles are a terrific hands-on addition to your classroom when teaching students about special places. Each puzzle depicts an image of special places that will relate to students in your classroom.
Students can put them together before discussing what makes that place special to different people. Simply print, cut and laminate!
The fantastic resource can also double as an engaging writing prompt, to help your students think of different settings for their writing.
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Learning goals
- We are learning to identify the places we live in and belong to, e.g. neighbourhood, suburb, town and describe why these places are important.
- We are learning to create story maps or models to represent the location of places and features.
- We are learning to identify the places we live in and belong to, e.g. neighbourhood, suburb, town, and describe the features of these places.
- We are learning to understand the reasons why some places are special to people, and how they can be looked after.
Curriculum alignment
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9
The features of familiar places they belong to, why some places are special and how places can be looked after
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8.4
The representation of the location of places and their features on simple maps and models
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8.4
The places people live in and belong to, their familiar features and why they are important to people
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8.4
The reasons why some places are special to people, and how they can be looked after
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Representation of the location of places and their features on maps and models, including a globe, and the location of the major geographical divisions of the world in relation to Australia
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Reasons why some places are special and some places are important to people and how they can be looked after
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Identify how people are connected to different places
Australian Curriculum covers QLD / SA / WA / NT / TAS / ACT.