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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.
- Resource details
- Year level
- Year 4
- Purpose
- Teaching resource Student activities
- Strand
- Space
- Topic
- Position and location
- Audience
- Teachers
- Format
- Webpage
- Australian Curriculum code
- AC9M4SP02
- Numeracy progression
- Positioning and locating (P4)
- Publisher
- Indigenous Knowledge Institute
- Copyright
- © The University of Melbourne. Creative Commons BY-NC-ND 4.0.
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