Friday, October 17, 2014

Workshop at 34° 52'S / 138° 36'E on 22 October


Image above: Nearmap: a great spatial technology site for looking at place, space and change.
* The Powerpoint for the 22  October geography workshop at OLSH

* Links to look at related to this blog
Geography Teachers' Association of South Australia website
ACARA website
ACARA Australian Curriculum portal
Australian Geography Teachers' Association website
'Towards a National Geography Curriculum' project website
Spatialworlds blog
GeogSpace website
Spatialworlds website

* Collecting data on attitudes to the geography curriculum and geography professional learning needs using Straw Poll.
Your participation would be greatly appreciated!


  • Click on the URL's below and select your response.
* Did you like geography at school?
http://www.strawpoll.me/1759017

* What did you like about geography?
http://www.strawpoll.me/1736527

* Familiarity with the Australian Curriculum: Geography
http://www.strawpoll.me/1736411

* Engagement potential of the Australian Curriculum: Geography
http://www.strawpoll.me/1736435

* Content amount in the Australian Curriculum: Geography
http://www.strawpoll.me/1736442

* Upskilling required to teach the Australian Curriculum: Geography
http://www.strawpoll.me/1779320

* Geographical concepts in the Australian Curriculum: Geography
http://www.strawpoll.me/1736458

* Skills to start working on to teach the Australian Curriculum: Geography
http://www.strawpoll.me/1736467 






*The Fantastic Scoop.it resource with thousands of Internet sites related to geography in schools


* Achievement Standards Chart and activities for Geography from DECD

The chart is at:http://www.decd.sa.gov.au/assessment/files/links/AchStnd_Geog_with_concept.docm
Assessment activities at:


* ACARA Introduction on Australian Curriculum: Geography



* DECD Australian Curriculum: Geography 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'.



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


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