Thursday, October 29, 2015

GAWA workshop at 31.9522° S, 115.8589° E



Dropbox links to the PowerPoint for the GAWA Geography workshop on 2 November, 2015 in Perth

* Links to look at related to geography in Australia
ACARA website

ACARA Australian Curriculum portal 
Australian Geography Teachers' Association website
'Towards a National Geography Curriculum' project report

Spatialworlds blog
GeogSpace website
Spatialworlds website
Geography Teachers' Association of South Australia website


* GeogSpace: the resource from AGTA and Education Services Australia (ESA) to support the Australian Curriculum: Geography



* Spatialworlds blogspot: 350 postings on everything you wanted to know about geography but to afraid to ask!




 
*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 
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 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'




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



Bringing it to life resource (BitL) geography

Thursday, October 8, 2015

Workshop at 27.42°S, 153.04°E on 16 October




 Image above: St Margaret's Anglican Girls School


** Geographical Thinking workshop 

** Deconstructing the achievement standards

** Geography and Civics and Citizenship workshop


Related sites to Geogaction blog 
 AGTA
Spatialworlds
GeogSpace
Humsteach
Geogaction
DECD Learning Resources for Australian Curriculum
DECD Achievement Standards Charts 
Geography Teachers' Association of South Australia website
ACARA website

ACARA Australian Curriculum portal 
Australian Geography Teachers' Association website
Spatialworlds blog
Geogsplace

Email contact:
malcolm.mcinerney@sa.gov.au




* Australian Geography Teachers' Association website



* Geography Teachers' Association of South Australia 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. 

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

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

* 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 






AC History Units: the resource from HTAA and Education Services Australia (ESA) to support the Australian Curriculum: History


* Being a Citizen: a resource developed by AGTA

Achievement Standards Chart and activities for Geography from DECD 


Assessment activities at:

  


* DECD Australian Curriculum: HASS resources 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: HASS.

As you can see below the resource to date includes a creative animation, broadsheets on the curriculum and 'talking heads'.

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



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




* The Australian Curriculum Portal



 * Being a Citizen: a resource developed by AGTA


 South Australian Parliament teaching resources



The South Australian Suffragettes site

A great South Australian history site focussed on the work of the suffragettes in South Australia.



Discovering Democracy resources 

 
* Parliamentary Education Office resources

* The Civics and Citizenship Achievement Standards document

Achievement Standards Chart for Civics and Citizenship from DECD 

 


The RSLSA Virtual War Memorial

A great resource for commemoration activities, historical research and work on Australian identity in the Civics and Citizenship curriculum.