Read aloud a book about Australia. Explain things the children might not know about in the book and point to the illustrations or images in the book when you talk about these things in the story.
Focus on two or three concrete words from the book, such as a koala, kangaroo or didgeridoo (an Australian Aboriginal horn), and encourage the children to discuss them.
Ask the preschoolers questions about the book. According to the U.S. Department of Education, you should encourage preschoolers to discuss the books you have read aloud. Asking questions and eliciting responses helps the preschooler's brain retain the new information.
Provide additional activities that correspond to the book. Activities include: planting a plant native to Australia, eating food from Australia or playing musical instruments popular in Australia. Make a Didgeridoo from a wrapping paper tube. Color stripes on the tube and blow into the end.
Listen to music native to Australia. Encouraging exploration of sensory experiences help children retain information.
Print out a coloring sheet of a koala. Allow the children to color it with crayons.
Give precut pieces of brown craft fur and white school glue to each student. Allow them to glue the fur to the colored picture of the koala.
Talk about the koala, providing three facts about the koala, while you pet the furry picture. Hands-on activities help reinforce the new word with an image and a meaning.
Print a kangaroo coloring sheet. Allow the children to color it.
Supply children with precut brown construction paper semicircles, "pouches," and allow them to glue the pockets to the front of the kangaroo with a school glue stick.
Draw a face on the brown rectangles. These are "baby kangaroos." Let the children put the baby kangaroos into the pouches glued to the kangaroo coloring sheet.