Minerals Downunder - Teacher Guide

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The Search Is On

Activities for pages 4 and 5 of the Minerals Downunder Student book:

• Students explore the relationships between the photographs, captions and title. Try to determine their understanding of what is being explained. Are the pictures in any order? How might they link the pictures with arrows to show the sequence? Having done this, can they relate the information in the print text to the photographs and captions? Could they suggest another main heading (eg "How and why do companies mine in certain places?")

• Ask Students to suggest the genre or text type of the first three paragraphs. (These consititute a 'Sequential Explanation', explaining how data is collected, what happened to that data and the work that is carried out based on that data).

• Students could consider which action summarises each of the pictures (using the captions as support). Similarly they could summarise the major action in the first three paaragraphs of the print text. Can they match these actions with the sections of the print text?

• Students could discuss the content of the last two paragraphs on page 5 and suggest a sub-heading (eg what are the factors for deciding where to mine?)

• Much of this text is presented as facts about how minerals are found and whether mining goes ahead where substantial mineral deposits are located. Ask students to identify other parts of the text where the publisher is trying to inform the reader about aspects of environmental management. (see for example the paragraph beginning 'Exporation Teams...').

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