Conclusion.

To debrief the activities and summarise what the students have accomplished here is a list of their achievements:

Students can now:


 * The students can now use maps and globes to locate global and Australian reference points, eg hemispheres, political states, lines of latitude and longitude, mountains and oceans, physical and cultural regions.


 * Locate and describes patterns of human involvement in environmental areas of Australia, eg human use of rainforest areas or river systems such as the Murray- Darling Basin


 * Explain the effects of human changes on an environment, evaluating the positive and negative aspects of these changes


 * Participate in the maintenance or improvement of an environment, eg supports bush regeneration


 * Locate places on a globe that they hear about or view in written, media and electronic texts


 * Draw accurate sketch maps of a known area and includes title, key, scale and direction


 * Use geographical terminology and tools to locate and investigate environments

Your time spent in The Amazon has unfortunately finished, hopefully these past few lessons have been eye opening and an amazing experience for you!