Thursday, December 5, 2013

First geography workshop for the year



Image above: The 7 concepts of the Australian Curriculum: Geography.

Powerpoint presentation for the Geography workshop in Adelaide on 20 January, 2014.

Links to look at related to this blog
Spatialworlds blog

GeogSpace website
Spatialworlds website
Australian Geography Teachers' Association website
'Towards a National Geography Curriculum' project website
Geography Teachers' Association of South Australia website
ACARA website

ACARA Australian Curriculum portal 

Scoop.it sites related to geography in schools
Geographical thinking Scoop.it
Spatial literacy Scoop.it
History and geography Scoop.it
Spatial Education and technology Scoop.it
GTAV Australian Curriculum Scoop.it on each year level


Achievement Standards Chart and activities for Geography 


* Assessment activities at:


DECD Implementation guidelines


Other DECD resources worth a look! 

DECD in South Australia has recently launched their "Making the Australian Curriculum work for us' resource to support the teaching and learning of the Australian Curriculum: Geography. The DECD site has a range of geographical bits and pieces referenced in this blog posting. They are certainly worth a look! 

As you can see below the resource to date includes a creative animation, broadsheets on the curriculum and 'talking heads'. I understand there will be plenty more useful things to come.  It is great to see a jurisdiction doing such high quality and innovative work to support the  implementation of geography in South Australian schools and inevitably beyond.

The Story of the learning areas animation. An excellent animation on 'What is Geography for'




Talking head on geography (sorry for the head!!)   




The geography curriculum, year by year, all on one page in the Learning Area Explorer.



Sound bites from the public on their perception of geography.





I encourage you, wherever you may be, to use these resources in any awareness work you are doing with your colleagues on the Australian Curriculum: Geography (or just on geography!). 

Tuesday, November 26, 2013

A workshop in Hobart


Image above: An poster/billboard advertising a new shopping complex in Adelaide. They get the difference between Place and Space?


Powerpoint presentation for the TGTA workshop in Hobart on 29 November, 2013.

Links to look at related to this blog
Spatialworlds blog

GeogSpace website
Spatialworlds website
Australian Geography Teachers' Association website
'Towards a National Geography Curriculum' project website
Geography Teachers' Association of South Australia website
ACARA website

ACARA Australian Curriculum portal 

Scoop.it sites related to geography in schools
Geographical thinking Scoop.it
Spatial literacy Scoop.it
History and geography Scoop.it
Spatial Education and technology Scoop.it
GTAV Australian Curriculum Scoop.it on each year level


Certainly worth a look! 

DECD in South Australia has recently launched their "Making the Australian Curriculum work for us' resource to support the teaching and learning of the Australian Curriculum: Geography. The DECD site has a range of geographical bits and pieces referenced in this blog posting. They are certainly worth a look! 

As you can see below the resource to date includes a creative animation, broadsheets on the curriculum and 'talking heads'. I understand there will be plenty more useful things to come.  It is great to see a jurisdiction doing such high quality and innovative work to support the  implementation of geography in South Australian schools and inevitably beyond.

The Story of the learning areas animation. An excellent animation on 'What is Geography for'




Talking head on geography (sorry for the head!!)   




The geography curriculum, year by year, all on one page in the Learning Area Explorer.



Sound bites from the public on their perception of geography.





I encourage you, wherever you may be, to use these resources in any awareness work you are doing with your colleagues on the Australian Curriculum: Geography (or just on geography!). 



Thursday, November 14, 2013

Final Histography workshop




Image above: The work samples from the ACARA site were used for learning about moderation at the workshop. 


Links to look at related to this blog
Spatialworlds blog

GeogSpace website
Spatialworlds website
Australian Geography Teachers' Association website
AC History units site
ACARA website

ACARA Australian Curriculum portal 

Scoop.it sites related to geography in schools
Geographical thinking Scoop.it
Spatial literacy Scoop.it
History and geography Scoop.it
Spatial Education and technology Scoop.it
GTAV Australian Curriculum Scoop.it on each year level


Exploring the assessment connection

The final Histography workshop was held on 15 November at the AISSA rooms. Here is the overview PowerPoint from the day

You may also be interested in the following links to the DECD Assessment and Reporting materials (including the Achievement Standards charts).

* Working with the Achievement Standards activities  


Achievement Standards Chart for Geography on DECD site (Activity 2).


Another interesting resource: A  guide  to teaching world history and geography


Wednesday, November 6, 2013

Geography at Rose Park



Image above: Primary geography book for the Australian Geography: Curriculum.  Available from Hawker-Brownlow.


PowerPoint presentation for the Australian Curriculum: Geography workshop at Rose Park Primary School on 7 November, 2013.

Achievement Standards Chart for Geography on DECD site.

Links to look at related to this blog
Spatialworlds blog

GeogSpace website
Spatialworlds website
Australian Geography Teachers' Association website
'Towards a National Geography Curriculum' project website
Geography Teachers' Association of South Australia website
ACARA website

ACARA Australian Curriculum portal 

Scoop.it sites related to geography in schools
Geographical thinking Scoop.it
Spatial literacy Scoop.it
History and geography Scoop.it
Spatial Education and technology Scoop.it
GTAV Australian Curriculum Scoop.it on each year level


Certainly worth a look! 

DECD in South Australia has recently launched their "Making the Australian Curriculum work for us' resource to support the teaching and learning of the Australian Curriculum: Geography. The DECD site has a range of geographical bits and pieces referenced in this blog posting. They are certainly worth a look! 

As you can see below the resource to date includes a creative animation, broadsheets on the curriculum and 'talking heads'. I understand there will be plenty more useful things to come.  It is great to see a jurisdiction doing such high quality and innovative work to support the  implementation of geography in South Australian schools and inevitably beyond.

The Story of the learning areas animation. An excellent animation on 'What is Geography for'




Talking head on geography (sorry for the head!!)   




The geography curriculum, year by year, all on one page in the Learning Area Explorer.



Sound bites from the public on their perception of geography.





I encourage you, wherever you may be, to use these resources in any awareness work you are doing with your colleagues on the Australian Curriculum: Geography (or just on geography!). 


Sunday, November 3, 2013

Working with GAWA on AC: Geogrpahy



Image above: Spatialworlds blog at http://www.spatialworlds.blogspot.com.au


Powerpoint presentation for the GAWA workshop in Perth on 4 November, 2013.

Links to look at related to this blog
Spatialworlds blog

GeogSpace website
Spatialworlds website
Australian Geography Teachers' Association website
'Towards a National Geography Curriculum' project website
Geography Teachers' Association of South Australia website
ACARA website

ACARA Australian Curriculum portal 

Scoop.it sites related to geography in schools
Geographical thinking Scoop.it
Spatial literacy Scoop.it
History and geography Scoop.it
Spatial Education and technology Scoop.it
GTAV Australian Curriculum Scoop.it on each year level


Certainly worth a look! 

DECD in South Australia has recently launched their "Making the Australian Curriculum work for us' resource to support the teaching and learning of the Australian Curriculum: Geography. The DECD site has a range of geographical bits and pieces referenced in this blog posting. They are certainly worth a look! 

As you can see below the resource to date includes a creative animation, broadsheets on the curriculum and 'talking heads'. I understand there will be plenty more useful things to come.  It is great to see a jurisdiction doing such high quality and innovative work to support the  implementation of geography in South Australian schools and inevitably beyond.

The Story of the learning areas animation. An excellent animation on 'What is Geography for'



Talking head on geography (sorry for the head!!)   



The geography curriculum, year by year, all on one page in the Learning Area Explorer.


Sound bites from the public on their perception of geography.




I encourage you, wherever you may be, to use these resources in any awareness work you are doing with your colleagues on the Australian Curriculum: Geography (or just on geography!). 



Thursday, October 31, 2013

Re-visiting Mount Gambier




 Image above: Some great Spatial literacy site on the Spatial literacy Scoop.it


Powerpoint presentation for the workshop at Mount Gambier on 1 November, 2013.

Links to look at related to this blog
Spatialworlds blog

GeogSpace website
Spatialworlds website
Australian Geography Teachers' Association website
'Towards a National Geography Curriculum' project website
Geography Teachers' Association of South Australia website
ACARA website

ACARA Australian Curriculum portal 

Scoop.it sites related to geography in schools
Geographical thinking Scoop.it
Spatial literacy Scoop.it
History and geography Scoop.it
Spatial Education and technology Scoop.it
GTAV Australian Curriculum Scoop.it on each year level


Certainly worth a look! 

DECD has recently launched their "Making the Australian Curriculum work for us' resource to support the teaching and learning of the Australian Curriculum: Geography. The DECD site has a range of geographical bits and pieces referenced in this blog posting. They are certainly worth a look! 

As you can see below the resource to date includes a creative animation, broadsheets on the curriculum and 'talking heads'. I understand there will be plenty more useful things to come.  It is great to see a jurisdiction doing such high quality and innovative work to support the implementation of geography in South Australian schools and inevitably beyond.

The Story of the learning areas animation. An excellent animation on 'What is Geography for'




Talking head on geography (sorry for the head!!)   




The geography curriculum, year by year, all on one page in the Learning Area Explorer.



Sound bites from the public on their perception of geography.





I encourage you, wherever you may be, to use these resources in any awareness work you are doing with your colleagues on the Australian Curriculum: Geography (or just on geography!). 



Wednesday, October 30, 2013

Connecting with CCP's and GC's



Powerpoint presentation for the fourth HistGeog workshop at AISSA on 31 October, 2013.

Links to look at related to this blog
Spatialworlds blog

GeogSpace website
Spatialworlds website
Australian Geography Teachers' Association website
'Towards a National Geography Curriculum' project website
Geography Teachers' Association of South Australia website
ACARA website

ACARA Australian Curriculum portal 

Scoop.it sites related to geography in schools
Geographical thinking Scoop.it
Spatial literacy Scoop.it
History and geography Scoop.it
Spatial Education and technology Scoop.it
GTAV Australian Curriculum Scoop.it on each year level


Certainly worth a look! 

Over recent months the 'Teaching for Effective Learning' section of DECD has posted some useful materials on their "Making the Australian Curriculum work for us' resource to support the teaching and learning of the Australian Curriculum in SA schools. Here is a glimpse of the recently posted materials on the DECD site . They are certainly worth a look! 

As you can see below the resources deal with history  mathematics, English, science and geography and includes creative animations, broadsheets on the curriculum and 'talking heads'. I understand there will be plenty more useful things to come.  

The Story of the learning areas animation. An excellent animation on 'What is ... for'




Talking heads on the learning areas 





The curriculum's, year by year, all on one page in the Learning Area Explorer.



Sound bites from the public on their perception of the learning areas



Sunday, October 27, 2013

Crafers workshop Part B

Image above: 


Powerpoint presentation for the second workshop at Crafers Primary school on 30 October, 2013.

Links to look at related to this blog
Spatialworlds blog

GeogSpace website
Spatialworlds website
Australian Geography Teachers' Association website
'Towards a National Geography Curriculum' project website
Geography Teachers' Association of South Australia website
ACARA website

ACARA Australian Curriculum portal 

Scoop.it sites related to geography in schools
Geographical thinking Scoop.it
Spatial literacy Scoop.it
History and geography Scoop.it
Spatial Education and technology Scoop.it
GTAV Australian Curriculum Scoop.it on each year level


Certainly worth a look! 

DECD has recently launched their "Making the Australian Curriculum work for us' resource to support the teaching and learning of the Australian Curriculum: Geography. The DECD site has a range of geographical bits and pieces referenced in this blog posting. They are certainly worth a look! 

As you can see below the resource to date includes a creative animation, broadsheets on the curriculum and 'talking heads'. I understand there will be plenty more useful things to come.  It is great to see a jurisdiction doing such high quality and innovative work to support the implementation of geography in South Australian schools and inevitably beyond.

The Story of the learning areas animation. An excellent animation on 'What is Geography for'




Talking head on geography (sorry for the head!!)   




The geography curriculum, year by year, all on one page in the Learning Area Explorer.



Sound bites from the public on their perception of geography.





I encourage you, wherever you may be, to use these resources in any awareness work you are doing with your colleagues on the Australian Curriculum: Geography (or just on geography!). 



Thursday, October 24, 2013

Geography for CESA at Somerton



Image above: The GeoGuesser website - great entry point for geographical observation and questioning skills.

Powerpoint presentation for the CESA workshop at Somerton Sailing Club on 25 October, 2013.

Links to look at related to this blog
Spatialworlds blog

GeogSpace website
Spatialworlds website
Australian Geography Teachers' Association website
'Towards a National Geography Curriculum' project website
Geography Teachers' Association of South Australia website
ACARA website

ACARA Australian Curriculum portal 

Scoop.it sites related to geography in schools
Geographical thinking Scoop.it
Spatial literacy Scoop.it
History and geography Scoop.it
Spatial Education and technology Scoop.it
GTAV Australian Curriculum Scoop.it on each year level


Certainly worth a look! 

DECD has recently launched their "Making the Australian Curriculum work for us' resource to support the teaching and learning of the Australian Curriculum: Geography. The DECD site has a range of geographical bits and pieces referenced in this blog posting. They are certainly worth a look! 

As you can see below the resource to date includes a creative animation, broadsheets on the curriculum and 'talking heads'. I understand there will be plenty more useful things to come.  It is great to see a jurisdiction doing such high quality and innovative work to support the implementation of geography in South Australian schools and inevitably beyond.

The Story of the learning areas animation. An excellent animation on 'What is Geography for'




Talking head on geography (sorry for the head!!)   




The geography curriculum, year by year, all on one page in the Learning Area Explorer.



Sound bites from the public on their perception of geography.





I encourage you, wherever you may be, to use these resources in any awareness work you are doing with your colleagues on the Australian Curriculum: Geography (or just on geography!).