Geogaction: AGTA Roadshow: Brisbane 21 March 2015

Image above: Location of St Margaret’s Anglican Girls School from Nearmap.

AGTA Roadshow PowerPoints

* Thinking Geographically presentation PowerPoint: Malcolm McInerney

* Using the Achievement Standards workshop: Malcolm McInerney

* Introduction to the day: Grant Kleeman

* Inquiry approaches in geography: John Butler

* Fieldwork: Susan Caldis

Geographical thinking Scoop.it

Spatial literacy Scoop.it

History and geography Scoop.it

Spatial Education and technology Scoop.it
Just real interesting Scoop.it

Email contact
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* 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.

* Familiarity with the Australian Curriculum: Geography
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* Engagement potential of the Australian Curriculum: Geography
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* Content amount in the Australian Curriculum: Geography
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* Upskilling required to teach the Australian Curriculum: Geography
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* Geographical concepts in the Australian Curriculum: Geography
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* Skills to start working on to teach the Australian Curriculum: Geography
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* GeogSpace: the resource from AGTA and Education Services Australia (ESA) to support the Australian Curriculum: Geography

* Spatialworlds: 300 posting on everything you wanted to know about geography but .

*The Fantastic Scoop.it resource with thousands of Internet sites related to geography in schools
* Geographical thinking Scoop.it
* Spatial literacy Scoop.it
* Spatial Education and technology Scoop.it
* Just real interesting Scoop.it
* GTAV Australian Curriculum Scoop.it on each year level

BBC physical geography site

CK site for physical geography.

GIS Zone: A great site to start using spatial technology.

Map Zone: An excellent basic mapping site

* 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:

http://www.decd.sa.gov.au/assessment/default.asp?navgrp=Leader

* ACARA Introduction on Australian Curriculum: Geography

* DECD Implementation guidelines

* 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 includes a creative animation, a Bringing it to Life (BitL tool) and broadsheets on the curriculum.

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