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Pacific Neighbours
Support Project
Information to help teachers get started is available here.
If you would like an OzProjects space to develop your own project using some of these ideas please click here to complete an online request. For further information please email ozprojects@edna.edu.au
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- Forums encourage discussion and collaboration. Chapter 1 of the teaching resource Pacific Neighbours: Understanding the Pacific Islands encourages students to think about our Pacific Island neighbours and share existing knowledge, explain why they have this knowledge and then raise further questions. This could be done effectively forums such as those below.
 Discussion forum: Share uour knowledge about our Pacific Island neighbours- Discussion forum: Questions about the Pacific Islands
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- Maps and images can be thought-provoking discussion starters.
Several mapping options are available online.
- Make you own Pacific Island map using Google images. Click here for an example. Creators of maps can make them available for others to edit. In this way students can work collaboratively to create a map.
- There is an excellent interactive map of the Pacific region available at http://www.pacificstories.com.au/map.html. It includes links to information about marine, life, shipwrecks, migration, environment, history, trade, culture and general information about the region.
Images which are licensed Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic are a useful resource for teachers and students. Attribution means you can copy, distribute and display the photo and derivative works based upon it - but only if you give credit (attribution) to the owner. Students and teachers can search Flickr here to find such photos. Photos can be used as discussion starters. There is an example in the Be Aware of Biodiversity project at http://www.ozprojects.edu.au/mod/forum/view.php?id=3159
AusAID has a library of images at http://www.flickr.com/photos/ausaid_photolibrary/sets/. Many of these are licensed Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic and can thus be downloaded and used with attribution. Others are licensed as All rights reserved but teachers can contact photolibrary@ausaid.gov.au with the URL of an image or images to obtain a high resolution original.
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- e learning quizzes such as the match up quiz below can be made by students and teachers using quiz makers freely available from http://www.contentgenerator.net/
Students can create and /or complete quizzes to reinforce and test their knowledge.
Quiz- Match the Pacific countries and capitals
Hot Potatoes is another freely available quiz maker available from http://hotpot.uvic.ca/#downloads
It can be used to make matching quizzes which include pictures. The Flags of the Pacific quiz below is one example. The flag images used in this quiz were obtained from the CIA World Factbook. They are in the Public Domain and can be used free of copyright restrictions with acknowledgment of the CIA World Factbook as the source.
Quiz- Match the Pacific countries with their flags
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- One of the Thinking more deeply activities on Page 12 in Chapter One of the Pacific Neighbours resource encourages students to work in small groups and use the information on Pages 10 and 11 of Chapter One to research a Pacific country and present the research as a description by writing a postcard. This could be done online using Postalz.
There is a very basic example below. Postalz has lots of options for making digital postcards more interesting. Web links can be included and video clips can be embedded.
 Postcard- Greetings from the Solomon Islands Resource
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- Natural hazards such as droughts, floods, volcanoes, earthquakes and tsunamis often have a devastating effect on the Pacific region. Animations and interactive resources can help students to understand how and why these occur.
- Natural disasters- animations and interactive resources
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Photos from the AusAID photo library clearly depict the human and environmental impact of these natural disasters in the Pacific and around the world in other countries where AusAID is active in providing emergency relief. Many of these photos are licensed with a Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic Licence which means that they can be shared and adapted with attribution. Others are licensed as All rights reserved but a high resolution original may be requested by sending an email to photolibrary@ausaid.gov.au
- AusAID photos- natural disasters Resource
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- The Pacific Neighbours resource has many activities which ask students to create a graph.
In Chapter 2 the focus is on responding to globalisation. As part of the study of Pacific islanders in sport students are asked to create a pie graph showing the countries of origin of the players in the ACT Brumbies rugby squad who identify themselves as originating from Pacific island countries. The data is provided.
Here is an example of a graph made online at http://www.chartgo.com/ to represent this data.
There are several other online tools which can be used to make graphs
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- In Chapter 2 of the Pacific Neighbours resource it is suggested that constructing a short survey for students to complete is a good way to establish existing connections with the Pacific. In the OzProjects Moodle environment this is easily done using the Feedback module. An example is linked below.
 Survey example- Pacific Island people we know Feedback- The results of Moodle surveys can be easily looked at as individual responses or analysed as a whole and even exported to Excel.
This is only an example of a survey. The data has not been collected from students but you can see what individual anonymous responses look like here and here.
The survey can be set up so that students can see the responses to analyse the data.
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- Timelines and mind maps are mentioned in several activities outlined in the Pacific Neighbours resource as a way of presenting information. Two useful online tools for these purposes are Timetoast and Bubbl.us.
Timetoast allows students to sign up for free and then create timelines to share with others in online environments such as blogs, wikis and web pages.
Bubbl.us does not even require students to sign up. It allows users to create free, colourful mind maps online and save them as an image. Examples are below.
- Timetoast example Resource
- Bubbl.us example Resource
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