Imagine That You Are Visiting This Landscape
Post card activity!
Different types of landscapes are shown below. Your teacher will allocate you one of these landscapes. For each landscape, a number of examples are given.
Mountain / Desert / Rainforest / Grassland / PolarKilimanjaro
Everest
Andes
Rockies / Thar
Sahara
Sinai
Tanami / Daintree
Borneo
Amazon / Namibia
USA
Chile
Mongolia / Antarctica
Alaska
Lapland
Siberia
Karst / Aquatic / Island / Built
Halong Bay
Nullarbor Plain
Giulin
Phangnga Bay / Great Barrier Reef
Okavango Delta
Rhine River
Lake Tanganyika / Hawaii
Fiji
Easter
Galapagos / New York
London
Beijing
Rio de Janeiro
Once you have been assigned a landscape, you will be completing a postcard about this landscape. The examples above may give you some ideas or you may like to choose your own example.
Imagine that you are visiting this landscape:
- On the front of the postcard, you will be illustrating the landscape. Also include the words :
Greetings from ______
- On the back of the postcard, you will beproviding information about what makes this landscape unique. Think about the value of the landscape (value is the importance of the landscape to individuals or groups). Information is shown below about the ways in which landscapes can have value.(The full text of these values can be found on the Year 8 Geography wiki in the document entitled: Valuing Landforms and Landscapes)
Cultural Value
Cultural value is the demonstration of the importance of landforms and landscapes as expressed by people, through creative means such as poetry, literature, art and film. ‘The Sound of Music’ is a film that is associated with mountain landscapes.
Spiritual Value
Landforms and landscapes are sacred to Indigenous Australians. For Indigenous cultures the spiritual value is expressed through the concept of ‘Country’. Indigenous peoples believe that the myths of their Dreamtime and their ancestors live on through the land and their connection with it. Uluru, for example, is a sacred place to the Anangu people.
Aesthetic Value
The aesthetic value of the landscape refers to the beauty of the landscape. People are drawn to places for a range of personal reasons. An individual may be drawn to the majesty of a landscape. National Parks are often located in beautiful areas.
Economic Value
This is a measurement of how financially important landscapes are. Economic value is particularly relevant to the tourism and mining industries in Australia. The Great Ocean Road is an example of a landscape in Victoria that is highly valued due to its popularity with tourists.
Source of photos: nationalgeographic.com 1. Lake Baikal, Siberia. 2. Eyjafjallajokull, Iceland. 3. Scottish fields.