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﻿This activity requires students to demonstrate their learning about The Australian continent. This task can be used throughout the entire unit of work. The following activity is for the specific topic of The Australian continent.

You have received notification that you have been accepted for an exchange visit in Thailand. You will be spending a week in a small village in the lowlands of Thailand. Over the next ten weeks, you will receive (hypothetical) emails from your exchange school in Thailand requesting specific information about Australia. You will be required to respond to these emails.

**Email 1 ** "Hi. We hear you are visiting our school. We hope you can teach us a bit about your country before you come here. Some students in our class do not even know where Australia is. Could you please send us a map and tell us a bit about how big your country is. Is it big like Thailand or small like Singapore?"

**Task - Mapping Australia's position ** 1. On a blank map of the world: 2. Scan and email the map.
 * locate four different countries (including Australia and Thailand) and each of the continents;
 * compare the areas of each of the four countries and continents selected (results to be noted on the map);
 * describe how the areas of continents could be calculated;
 * indicate the latitude and longitude of the four countries, using degrees and minutes;
 * give the bearings of the capital city of the four countries from Canberra.