Where is Cairns?
Read the lines of latitude and longitude in an atlas and transfer them to your own map of Australia. Plot locations of capital cities; major landmarks etc (Uluru; Great Barrier Reef; Daintree Rainforest; Blue Mountains; Cape York; Great Australian Bight) Give directional locations of these Australian features from Melbourne eg Travel north XXX km to go to the Barrier Reef. Investigate the altitudes of mountain ranges. Plot rainforests of the world on a world map. Infer why rainforest are located near the equatorial regions of the world. * You may need to use an atlas to help plot the lines of longitude and latitude)
http://www.enchantedlearning.com/subjects/continents/Australia/label/labelaus.shtml (map of Australia to print and complete)
http://www.csu.edu.au/australia/latlong/index.html (use this site to locate the lines of latitude and longitude of places in Australia)
Images of Cairns http://images.google.com.au/images?f=q&hl=en&geocode=&time=&date=&ttype=&q=cairns&ie=UTF8&z=14&om=1&sa=N&tab=li
Images of Melbourne http://www.google.com.au/search?q=google+map+melbourne&rls=com.microsoft:en-au&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&startIndex=&startPage=1&redir_esc=&ei=Wki1S5PoGY7OM-XSqbMJ
Satellite photo of Australia http://maps.google.com.au/maps?utm_campaign=en_AU&utm_medium=ha&utm_source=en_AU-ha-apac-au-bk-gm&utm_term=google%20map