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Navigating our way through country
Investigate a map that includes a key to the map symbols, a scale for distance units and a scale for area measurement units.
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| Year level(s) | Year 4 |
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| Audience | Teacher |
| Purpose | Teaching resource, Student task |
| Format | Web page |
| Teaching strategies and pedagogical approaches | Culturally responsive pedagogies, Mathematics investigation |
Curriculum alignment |
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| Curriculum connections | Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Histories and Culture |
| Strand and focus | Space |
| Topics | Position and location |
| AC: Mathematics (V9.0) content descriptions |
AC9M4SP02
Create and interpret grid reference systems using grid references and directions to locate and describe positions and pathways |
| Numeracy progression |
Positioning and locating (P4)
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| Organisation | Indigenous Knowledge Institute |
| Copyright | © The University of Melbourne. Creative Commons BY-NC-ND 4.0. |
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