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!).