The Geography Teachers Association of NSW have a full unit of work complete with Powerpoints and student worksheets available for you to use to teach this unit. Click here or on the pictures below to access this resource. The image below also shows the lesson outline.
This resources was created by Dr Susan Bliss for the Asia Education Teachers' Association. It focuses on Indonesia and Australia. The resource is linked to the Australian Curriculum and includes lots of geography skills, particularly mapping. It also has links to other useful websites in the resources at the end of the document.
This unit of work has been created as a Weebly (website) by teacher Ilana Blazevic. (She has a copyright on her work so I would suggest keeping her name attached to any resources as an acknowledgement). Click on the tabs at the top to find resources for neighbouring countries and explore the activities/tasks set for students to complete. Click on the image for access.
Ducksters is an educational website. This section of the website focuses specifically on Geography and Oceania. By clicking on each country students can find introductory information about the country's history, geography, people and economy. Includes maps.
Here is another weebly created by a teacher for their students for Australia and Its Neighbours. You might find it useful to raid through the resources tab to find useful links or to look at the tasks set by the teacher for ideas.
Kiddle is a kidsafe search engine. If you search for individual countries it will produce an excellent 'facts for kids' result which includes history, people and culture, geographical information, images, maps and more. The image below will take you to an example for Indonesia.
The Australia's Guide website has an excellent section on Geographic features. It provides overview information and images of Australia's islands, highest mountain, longest river etc. To the right it has a selection box to find similar information on a state by state basis. Click on the image below for access.
