Teach all 16 lessons of Stage 3 HSIE Unit 4, Our World's Environments, with one ready-to-project PowerPoint that puts every resource, question and task on the screen.

This student-facing PowerPoint covers the complete NSW Department of Education sample unit for Year 5 and Year 6 geography: 454 editable slides across 16 lessons, plus 4 consolidation activities. Each lesson follows the unit's rhythm of Beginning the lesson, Core lesson and Concluding the lesson, so the class always knows where they are and what comes next.

The learning journey takes students from the major lines of latitude and the world's climate zones, through the relationship between climate and vegetation, to how people rely on their environment for food and materials and how human activity is changing places like New Delhi, the Amazon and Antarctica. The final four lessons guide students through their own geographical research into a global environment, from guiding questions to a finished presentation.

The 16 lessons cover

1. Tropical and polar environments
2. The Tropics of Cancer and Capricorn
3. The Arctic and Antarctic Circles
4. Climates and vegetation zones
5. Climate and vegetation relationships
6. Drawing conclusions about climate and vegetation
7. People rely on the environment for food and materials
8. Researching how people rely on the environment
9. Explaining how people rely on the environment
10. Changes to environments
11. Changes to the Amazon Rainforest
12. Human activity in Antarctica
13. Introducing geographical research
14. Geographical research – Part 1
15. Geographical research – Part 2
16. Creating research presentations

Plus four consolidation activities: Presenting research findings, Continuing research presentations, Climate variations within a climate zone and Temperate mystery map.

Each lesson includes

• Learning intention and success criteria at the start and again on the concluding slide
• Key language cards defining the lesson's vocabulary
• True or false and check-for-understanding prompts with click-to-reveal answers (55 across the unit)
• The unit's maps, climate graphs, seed packets, satellite images and resource tables displayed on screen, side by side where students compare them
• Live links to the unit's videos and websites, including MapMaker, Google Earth, NASA Earth Observatory and Climate data (42 across the unit)
• Your turn task cards that direct students to the resources they need
• A challenge slide for early finishers
• Optional assessment and reflection prompts
• A linked contents page and an INDEX button on every lesson title slide

Curriculum alignment

• NSW HSIE K–6 Syllabus (2024), Stage 3, focus area Geographical information is used for sustainable futures
• HS3-GEO-01: students use geographical information to examine how people organise, protect and sustainably use environments, and what it means to be a global citizen

Perfect for

• Stage 3 teachers delivering the NSW HSIE Unit 4 sample unit
• Year 5 and Year 6 geography lessons on climate zones, vegetation and environmental change
• Whole-class explicit teaching on an interactive whiteboard or classroom screen
• Low-prep NSW geography programming for the term
• Relief and casual teachers picking up a lesson mid-unit
• Introducing geographical inquiry and research skills
• Team teaching across a stage with a shared, consistent deck

Please note

Teachers will need access to the relevant NSW Department of Education HSIE Stage 3 Unit 4 lesson materials to gain the full benefit of this resource. This PowerPoint is designed to support the delivery of the unit and does not replace the complete teacher guidance, lesson notes, source materials or professional learning provided with the original unit. Videos and websites are linked rather than embedded, so an internet connection is needed to play them. The resource is adapted from the NSW Department of Education sample unit under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 licence; syllabus content is © NSW Education Standards Authority (NESA) 2024. This is a teaching resource and is not an official NESA or Department product.

File details

• 1 PowerPoint file (.pptx), fully editable, about 25 MB
• 454 slides in 16:9 widescreen format
• 16 lessons, 4 consolidation activities and a Terms of Use slide in one file
• Stage 3, Years 5–6, NSW HSIE K–6 Syllabus (2024)
• Digital download
• Licensed for one teacher in one classroom, year after year