Wattle Gum Curriculum Year 5 Geography – Seven Little Australians & Counting

Our Geography focus in Year 5 will be Australian Weather, Maps and ‘travelling’ to two continents. We will be looking at:

Extreme Weather
Global Perspective
Antarctica
South America

Encourage your child to ask questions
To undertake weekly map drills

Our Geography curriculum, resource recommendations and implementation instructions are in the printable pdf.

Name	Writers	Illustrators	Tags	Series	Target Age	Print Status	Curriculums
Alex	Hawke, Rosanne		Drought	Australian Disaster Zones	11-14 Years	In Print
Ash Road	Southall, Ivan		Bushfire		11-15 Years	In Print	AO Aust PD, AO7 Aust PD
Bushfire Rescue	D'Ath, Justin		Bushfire	Extreme Adventure	9-12 Years	In Print
Deadly Science – Wild Weather	Tutt, Corey		Weather	Deadly Science	8-12 Years	In Print
Draw the World: An Outline of Continents and Oceans	Draeger, Kristin		Cartography		8-18 Years	Out Of Print
Escape from Disaster	Lerangis, Peter		Antarctica	Antarctica	9-12 Years	Out Of Print
Esperanza Rising	Ryan, Pam Muñoz		Immigration, Mexico		9-12 Years	In Print
Farewell Cuba, Mi Isla			Cuba		8-12 Years	In Print
Geography from A to Z: A Picture Glossary	Knowlton, Jack				7-11 Years	Out Of Print
Ice Trap!: Shackleton’s Incredible Expedition	Hooper, Meredith	Robertson, Mark	1910-1920, Sir Ernest Shackleton		6-12 Years	Out Of Print
Into the White : Scott’s Antarctic Odyssey	Grochowicz, Joanna		Robert Scott		10-14 Years	In Print
Journey to the Pole	Lerangis, Peter		Antarctica	Antarctica	9-12 Years	Out Of Print
Journey to the River Sea	Ibbotson, Eva		Brazil		8-12 Years	In Print
Map Art Lab	Berry, Jill K, McNeilly, Linden		Cartography		6-11 Years	In Print
My Australian Story: Bushfire	Murphy, Sally		2000-2010, Black Saturday, Bushfire, Marysville	My Australian Story	10-14 Years	In Print
My Australian Story: Cyclone Tracy	Tucker, Alan		1970-1980, Cyclone Tracy, Cyclones, Darwin	My Australian Story	10-14 Years	eBook
Shackleton’s Endurance: An Antarctic Survival Story	Grochowicz, Joanna		Sir Ernest Shackleton		10-14 Years	Out Of Print
Stay	Blackadder, Jesse		Antarctica		9-12 Years	In Print
Storm Runners	Smith, Roland			Storm Runners	8-12 Years	In Print
The Atlas Obscura Explorer’s Guide for the World’s Most Adventurous Kid	Mosco, Rosemary, Thuras, Dylan				8-12 Years	In Print
The Boy Who Biked the World: Part One: On the Road to Africa	Humphreys, Alastair		Africa	The Boy who Biked the World	10-14 Years	In Print
The Dreamer	Ryan, Pam Muñoz		Chile, Pablo Neruda		9-14 Years	Out Of Print
The Quest for Z	Pizzoli, Greg		Amazon, Explorer, Percy Fawcett		7-10 Years	In Print
Treasure of the World			Bolivia		10-18 Years	In Print