Australia's Climate & Natural Resources

This is a graphic organizer and map coloring activity about the location, climate, and natural resources. Students will use notes/articles/information to fill out the graphic organizer. Next, they will take two pieces of information and from the different categories and fill them in to the different states/territories that are labeled with different categories. For example, New South Wales is labeled 'climate' so students will put two pieces of information about Australia's climate in that state. After students fill out all of their information, they can color Australia and the surrounding resource pictures.

A great article to use to accompany this resource is National Geographic's Encyclopedic Entry about Australia and Oceania's natural resources. Even if you do not use this resource, definitely check out the article! Article link here.

This activity aligns with GA SS6G12 – Explain the impact of location, climate, distribution of natural resources, and population distribution on Australia.