My Place Asia Australia

The My Place Asia Australia website is a very rich resource designed for use with middle years students, but is easily adapted for use at the lower primary level. The resource is based on an innovative cultural exchange with students from Australia and countries in Asia, creating and sharing images and explanatory information about places special to them via the Internet.

This unit describes an approach to using vivid and fascinating art and ideas on the website to help students understand what they have in common with their cross-cultural peers, initiating psychological comfort with cultural comparisons. This is achieved through interpretation and development of electronic and print texts, both written and visual, related to students' real worlds.

Students can find out what young people from China, India, Korea and Australia see as important in their lives through student artworks by comparing and contrasting themes such as sport, hobbies, school and the environment.

Stages of Schooling: Years 1, 2, 3 and 4

Learning focus

Literature: Literature and context; Responding to literature; Examining literature; creating literature

Literacy: Texts in context; Interpreting, analysing and evaluating

Duration: Three lessons

Additional texts

• Access Asia: Primary teaching and learning units (Curriculum Corporation, 1996)
• Images of Asia: Cards for China and Korea

Click on the image to go to My Place Asia Australia.