Essential Question: Students will learn about physical features, climate, natural resources, history, and cultures of Australia, New Zealand, Tasmania, and the Pacific Islands.
- CC RH.4 Literacy Standard- Reading History
- SS.7.1.15 Create and compare timelines that identify major people and events and developments in the history of civilzation and/or countries of Australia, New Zealand, and the Southwest Pacific Islands.
- SS.7.2.1 Compare, contrast, and evaluate the different routes to independence from colonial rule taken by countries in Australia, New Zealand, and the Southwest Pacific Islands.
- SS.7.2.5 Define and compare citizenship and the citizen's role in selected countries of Australia, New Zealand, and the Southwest Pacific Islands.
- SS.7.3.1 Formulate a braod understanding of the location of countries of Australia, New Zealand, and the Southwest Pacific Islands.
- SS.7.3.2 Formulate a broad understanding of the location of capital cities in Australia, New Zealand, and the Southwest Pacific Islands using latitude and longitude on maps and with locational technology such as Global Positioning Systems and Geographic Information Systems.
- SS.7.3.3 Use historical maps to identify changes in Australia, New Zealand, and the Southwest Pacific Islands over time.
- SS.7.3.4 Identify and describe major physical characteristics of regions in Australia, New Zealand, and the Southwest Pacific Islands, such as deserts, basins, planis, mountains, and rivers, and describe their formation.
- SS.7.3.5 Describe ecosystems of Australia, New Zealand, and the Southwest Pacific Islands and use multiple information resources to discover environmental concerns that these ecosystems are facing today.
- SS.7.3.6 Compare and contrast the distribution of natural resources in Australia, New Zealand, and the Southwest Pacific Islands; describe how natural resorce distribution can impact the wealth of a country.
- SS.7.3.7 Describe the limitations that climate and land forms place on land or people in regions of Australia, New Zealand, and the Southwest Pacific Islands.
- SS.7.4.4 Compare and contrast the standard of living of various countries in Australia, New Zealand, and the Southwest Pacific Islands using Gross Domestic Product per capita as an indicator; hupothesize how factors including urbanization, industrialization, and globalization could affect the differences in the standard of living.