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Scenario: You are all Stage 1 classroom teachers at a Sydney primary school of your choosing. In your stage planning meeting, discuss the geographical concept of ‘place’ and think about what understanding your students might already have about this idea. Examine the ES1 stage statement to determine prior learning and how understanding is developed as students progress to Stage 1. Consider how the concept of ‘place’ is addressed in Stage 1 in two main ways through the topics of ‘Features of Places’ OR ‘People and Places’ (syllabus pages 46-49). Choose one of the topics and one content descriptor (e.g. the topic is ‘Features of Places’ and our focus is ‘how places are organised). Examine how Aboriginal perspectives are embedded in Stage 1 geography. As part of a 10- week geography unit addressing your topic, your task for this assignment is to plan a 1-day excursion which provides the opportunity for your students to build on their understanding of place through active participation in the geographical inquiry process We have chosen to visit the Sydney observatory hill and the school have been choose is Cammeray public school Year 1 students complete a planning activity with the template provided Activity – Let’s think about all the things we saw today (around us here, across the water and into the distance). What are some natural things we can see? And what are some man-made things? – How do you know it’s man-made?”