Monday, June 19, 2017

The Australian experience in South Africa






Links to the PowerPoints for the SAGTA / GeoforAll conference in Johannesburg, South Africa, June 2017


* Keynote presentation: Developing the Spatial Citizen
* Workshop 1: Taking on the spatial technology learning curve
* Workshop 2: Creative inquiry using spatial technology


* Links to look at related to geography in Australia
Spatialworlds blog
GeogSpace website
ACARA website
ACARA Australian Curriculum portal 
Australian Geography Teachers' Association website
Geogaction
Spatialworlds website

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* 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