Government & Defence - POSTAL WORKER
Postie
for a Day
Primary
Australian
Curriculum General Capability:
Personal and social capability
Australian
Curriculum General Capability:
Numeracy
This activity will help you see what it is like to be a "Postie".
1. Get on your bike or scooter and ride around your suburb
- how long does it take? Write down the number of hours and minutes.
2. Write down all the street names in your suburb and how they are linked to each
other.
3. Draw a map of your suburb on grid
paper and make it to scale (as best you can).
4. Investigate these streets. Is there any special features like battleaxes that a
Postie
in your suburb would have to be conscious of?
5. Compare with other students in your suburb - where there any differences in your observations?
Time
to Deliver! It's all about Numbers!
Primary
Australian
Curriculum General Capability:
Numeracy
1. You are a postal delivery worker. You get paid per day, not by the hour so you like to get your route done as fast as possible so that you can go home as early as you can.
In your route you have 320 houses to deliver to.
You manage to do this in around 6 hours on your fast days.
2. Based on this delivery average, how many houses
do you deliver to in…
An hour?
5 minutes?
3. If you took 8 hours instead of 6, how many
houses would you deliver to in…
An hour?
5 minutes?
4. If you travel at an average of 15 km/h for your
6 hour shift, how far is your route?
Post
Office Numeracy: Research
Primary
Middle
Australian
Curriculum General Capability: ICT Capability
Australian
Curriculum General Capability:
Numeracy
Australian
Curriculum General Capability:
Literacy
1. You are to research one of the following different aspects of the Postal Service (see below in table)
2. Using the sites provided,
and your own knowledge, answer the given questions in as much detail as
possible. Include a specific mathematical example e.g. cost of sending
shoes, post codes and areas, statistics.
3. Create a poster or display to incorporate all the class' work using
pictures and colour.
Learn
Photoshop - How to Create a Postage Stamp using the 90th
Birthday as inspiration!
Primary
Middle
Secondary
Australian
Curriculum General Capability:
Critical and creative thinking
Australian
Curriculum General Capability: ICT Capability
1. Look at the following video: Learn Photoshop - How to
Create a Postage Stamp
https://youtu.be/6yWL06wcfus
2. Part of creating a Postage Stamp is the content or focus of the stamp - what is relevant to the different aspects of life and culture say here in Australia.
In April 2016, Queen Elizabeth turned 90.
3. Look at the following stamps from Australia and the UK commemorating this event and analyse their similarities and differences. Share with a partner your thoughts.
Australian Post: First Day Cover
and Stamps
6 Stamps from the UK showing
different aspects of the Queen's life and service
Stamp sheet showing 4 stamps -
one of each of the four generations
Prince Charles, the Queen, Prince George and Prince William
4. Which set of stamps do you like? Why? Give reasons.
5. Using your skills in Photoshop, select at least 3 photos from each of the following to convert to stamps: 63 years in photographs; the Queen in Australia; your family or any other aspect of Australia.
6. Why did you choose these photographs? Hold an exhibition of the class' stamps.
Websites, Games and Apps
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This is a fun activity and lots of people all around the world collect stamps, first day covers, sheets of stamps, used or unused stamps!
Start your own collection of stamps. Click here for more information.
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Play this free online
post offfice game
Australian
Curriculum General Capability: ICT Capability
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Middle Secondary
Australian
Curriculum General Capability: Intercultural Understanding
Australian
Curriculum General Capability:
Critical and creative thinking
Australian
Curriculum General Capability: ICT Capability
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