Osprey position and location
In this lesson, students acquire data related to the migration of the osprey. Students describe location and position on a Cartesian plane using paired coordinates. They explore the way latitude and longitude is used to pinpoint a location on Earth.
This lesson is the fourth in a series of six lessons that connect the cross-curriculum priority of Sustainability, Statistics and the Science learning area: Science as a human endeavour. AC9S5H01, AC9S6H01 and AC9S5H02, AC9S6H02.
This lesson was developed in collaboration with Conservation Without Borders. Data and information provided by Tweed Valley Osprey Project.
- Resource details
- Year level
- Year 5 Year 6
- Purpose
- Teaching resource
- Strand
- Statistics Space
- Topic
- Data acquisition and recording Position and location Statistical investigations
- Audience
- Teachers
- Format
- Webpage
- Numeracy progression
- Interpreting and representing data (P4)
- Publisher
- Commonwealth of Australia
- Copyright
- © 2024 Commonwealth of Australia. Creative Commons BY 4.0.
- Other terms
- GPS data world map latitude longitude Maths Hub lesson plan
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