Image above: The classroom response system called Poll Everywhere
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
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Day 3: Connecting curriculum workshop on 29 August 2013 at AISSA offices.
Here is the presentation Powerpoint for Day 3
ICT's in history presentation
After working on the nature of the Australian Curriculum: history and geography during the past two workshops, today we are going to try to audit the two to look for connections prior to developing a teaching program.
We are going to start the day using the digital tool called Poll Everywhere. Go to PollEv.com and submit your answers to the following questions on our previous two sessions.
1. Which of the two subjects do you
feel most comfortable to teach?
2. What concept in Geography do you
feel is the most difficult to teach?
3. What concept in History do you
feel is the most difficult to teach?
4. How many concepts are there for
history and geography?
5. All concepts should be treated
as equal.
6. The concepts are assessed in the
Achievement Standards for both subjects.
7. What year level do you wish to
work on today
8. On a scale of 0-10 (10 being
very confident), how confident are you that history and geography can be
connected effectively?
9. What geography concept is this a
definition for?
“ ……is knowing where places and
landscapes are located, why they are there and the patterns and distributions
they create.”
10. What history concept is this a
definition for?
“……is a person’s point of view, the
position from which they see and understand events going on around them.”
11. What is your favourite period
of history?
12. What is your favourite area of
geography to study?
13. Define history in one ‘student
friendly’ sentence.
14. Define geography in one
‘student friendly’ sentence.
15. How would you explain the
difference between place and space in one sentence?
