Saturday, June 28, 2014

Workshop at 34.92S / 138.60E on 3 July 2014

* PowerPoint  for the Geography workshop with DECD Implementation Officers on 
3 July 2014 



Image above: Nearmap: a great site for looking at place, space and change.

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

Australian Geography Teachers' Association website
'Towards a National Geography Curriculum' project website

Spatialworlds website

* Collecting data on the implementation of geography 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

* How are schools engaging with Australian Curriculum: Geography?
http://strawpoll.me/2004568  

* Are there any aspects of the curriculum that teachers are finding challenging?
http://strawpoll.me/2004578 

* What is the demand from schools for geography professional learning?
http://strawpoll.me/2004585

* What is the extent of your engagement with geography in your schools?
http://strawpoll.me/2004589

* How comfortable are you with the knowledge, understandings and skills of the geography curriculum?
http://strawpoll.me/2004594

* What areas of geographical learning would you like to work on in the future?
http://strawpoll.me/2004636 



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



Spatialworlds: Over 300 postings 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




Achievement Standards Chart and activities for Geography from DECD 
Assessment activities at:



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 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.



Bringing it to life resource (BitL) geography


Sound bites from the public on their perception of geography.


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