Amelia The Pigeon in Sydney helps students see their world from a new point of view—a birds-eye view up in the sky. It provides the opportunity for students to identify, locate and describe natural, heritage and built features in the Sydney area and understand their significance and management. Amelia's story helps students develop mapping skills which they then use to identify, describe and locate a series of places around Sydney.

Students incorporated skills learnt from the interactive story of Amelia The Pigeon with current Google Earth/Maps images to describe what Amelia the Pigeon would photograph if she flew over Taronga Park Zoo, Darling Harbour and Sydney city. They used historical photos of Sydney locations and compared these to current aerial images to identify how the community values and cares for these locations.

Amelia the Pigeon in Sydney is adapted from The Adventures of Amelia the Pigeon, which is part of NASA's IMAGERS (Interactive Multimedia Adventures for Grade School Education Using Remote Sensing) Program.

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