Our Year 5/6 Geography students are continuing to explore interconnections within places and between places, and the effects of these interconnections so we are researching connections between Australia and countries in the Asia region around trade and tourism. We invited Mark Cuthell from the Port Campbell Visitor Centre into our classroom to explore what we know about our international neighbours and what we both want and need in terms of migration, trade, aid, security, cultural exchange and visiting friends and relatives. Students considered how well we know ourselves with 30% of the Australian population born overseas and around 50% percent of people have a parent who was born overseas. He described how locals and various international tourists are enticed to visit our region and explained the planning that went into advertising campaigns to consider the individual needs and wants of visitors from each country/region to make them feel welcome, important, respected and treated fairly, creating wonderful memories. As a target audience, Mark challenged our students to create an ad campaign using persuasive text and images to invite and inspire the 180,000 international students living in Melbourne to bring their visiting families and friends to explore the new Timboon - Port Campbell - Cobden - Camperdown Rail Trail. The students’ script ideas and themes could be used to then potentially inspire ad campaigns or included as a blog link on local tourism webpages with some of our students creating hastags already! What an opportunity to encourage people to visit the SouthWest and perhaps leave as an ambassador for our region.
#howcoolisthis! Our Year 5/6 Geography students are continuing to explore interconnections within places and between places, and the effects of these interconnections so we are researching connections between Australia and countries in the Asia region around trade and tourism. We invited Mark Cuthell from the Port Campbell Visitor Centre into our classroom to explore what we know about our international neighbours and what we both want and need in terms of migration, trade, aid, security, cultural exchange and visiting friends and relatives. Students considered how well we know ourselves with 30% of the Australian population born overseas and around 50% percent of people have a parent who was born overseas. He described how locals and various international tourists are enticed to visit our region and explained the planning that went into advertising campaigns to consider the individual needs and wants of visitors from each country/region to make them feel welcome, important, respected and treated fairly, creating wonderful memories. As a target audience, Mark challenged our students to create an ad campaign using persuasive text and images to invite and inspire the 180,000 international students living in Melbourne to bring their visiting families and friends to explore the new Timboon - Port Campbell - Cobden - Camperdown Rail Trail. The students’ script ideas and themes could be used to then potentially inspire ad campaigns or included as a blog link on local tourism webpages with some of our students creating hastags already! What an opportunity to encourage people to visit the SouthWest and perhaps leave as an ambassador for our region. Comments are closed.
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