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Michael McPartland's book published by the Geographical Association in the UK focuses on the role and value of moral dilemmas in the classroom. McPartland provides practical ideas about how teachers can explore the moral dimensions of issues in geography.
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Check out National Geographic Kids apps, games, and magazines for iPad, iPod Touch, iPhone, NOOK, and Android devices.
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A useful list of apps and games for geography.
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We need an Australian version of this!
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The GA supports primary and secondary geography teachers through teaching resources, geography journals, CPD events, Barnaby Bear, Worldwise and more.
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A UK based professional association supporting primary geography. Check out the free online courses and other online resources.
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What a great idea for Australia!
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Innovative and inspiring. I love the idea of an "Exploration Revolution" in primary classrooms.
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How technology can further STEM learning through the environment, both inside and outside the classroom. An educator toolkit is available free at - http://go...
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So much potential for developing geographical understanding in the primary classroom.
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April 22, 2013 8:38 PM
Although this video focuses on geography and science topics, it has a range of ideas that can be applied to teaching history. I love how the students are using a range of technologies to record and collect data. There is a real sense of purpose to their learning and the different technologies are useful and engaging. Getting outside of the classroom to teach history is essential.
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The Atlas of New South Wales, list of related articles on Environment for NSW Australia
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Animated Science, Health, Technology, Math, Social Studies, Arts & Music and English movies, quizzes, activity pages and school homework help for K-12 kids, aligned with state standards
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Foundation-People live in places Year 1-Places have distinctive features
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Urban adventures to (re)present our habitat through stories, photography, film..
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Urban Earth is a collaborative project where locals explore and present their habitat. This innovative idea could be used in classrooms to develop geographical understanding.
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The GA supports primary and secondary geography teachers through teaching resources, geography journals, CPD events, Barnaby Bear, Worldwise and more.
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May 29, 2013 1:37 AM
A well-resourced professional association for geography based in the UK. The section for primary teachers offers practical and innovative ideas for developing geographical understanding in the primary classroom.
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May 27, 2019 8:35 PM
A fantastic link to a website that offers many supported case studies for both human and environmental areas of geography. These case studies could be integrated effectively into teaching classroom content and assist students in their understanding of geographical issues. The case studies and resources on this link could easily be linked together to create a unit of work or modified to include a more extensive digital pedagogical based method.
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MapStory empowers a global community to organize knowledge about the world spatially and temporally. With MapStory, people of all kinds turn into Storytellers who can create, share, and collaborate on MapStories and ultimately improve our understanding of global dynamics, worldwide, over the course of history. - See more at: http://mapstory.org/#sthash.LOS4Q20k.dpuf
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The GA supports primary and secondary geography teachers through teaching resources, geography journals, CPD events, Barnaby Bear, Worldwise and more.
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A downloadable lesson focusing on map reading skills, fieldwork skills, collecting and reading data and understanding place. Australian primary teachers can adapt for local context.
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May 15, 2013 12:25 AM
Geography is the investigation and understanding of the earth and its features (ACARA Shape Paper: Geography). Retrieved from http://www.acara.edu.au/verve/_resources/Shape_of_the_Australian_Curriculum_Geography.pdf
Geographical inquiry involves observation, questioning, planning, data collection, making sense of information, communicating and reflecting. This electronic bagpack is packed full of useful tools teachers can use to teach geography through geographic inquiry.
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There is a strong link between geography and play. Geography is simply a giant game of hide and seek. Mentally and physically we've always played the game. From our first smiles playing peekaboo to...
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This blog highlights the impact of play on developing geographical understanding and this idea will resonate with primary teachers.
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This Stage 2 UOW focuses on the Penrith Lakes area of Sydney but can be adapted for a different location to teach about a local site. There are lots of ideas for addressing geographical and historical outcomes including mapping, heritage and change. An Aboriginal perspective has been embedded in the learning and teaching activities.
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April 20, 2013 5:33 AM
It is counter-productive to teach students about cities, rivers and mountains in NSW without them being able to locate them on a map! This fun and interactive website is perfect for teaching Stage 2 mapping skills and terminology, such as compass reading, grid references, symbols, keys and scale. This is obviously dependent on accessability to internet within the school. Gilbert and Hoepper (2011, p.264) describe a notion known as 'geospatial concepts', which form the framework of thinking in geography, providing an integral part of geographical thinking. According to geospatial concepts, the skills taught on this BBC website are classified under the 'elemental' skills, best taught to S1 and S2.
Being able to perform these skills will assist students in achieving the outcome ENS2.5, by locating and mapping cities, rivers and mountains in NSW using locational terminology and mapping skills, as per syllabus requirements. This hands-on website could be used by the teacher in a whole class activity or by individual students during ICT lessons, thereby improving their ICT skills. It can be accessed at home on ipads, iphones or on the internet.
Teaching activities could include students working in groups to construct freehand maps of NSW geographic features such as mountain ranges and rivers, or discussing the need for a key to distinguish between cities, capital cities, states and rivers. More capable students could work together to make a map of Australian cities, capital cities, mountains and rivers. Students who are struggling could create a map of their local area with known locations such as their school, their house, and a local park.These could easily become summative assessments of students' understanding.
Subsequent literacy lessons could be based on creating tourist brochures of regional/rural cities in NSW. Numeracy lessons could focus on how to display scale, and figuring out distances between cities and rivers. This could easily form the basis of a summative assessment.
I can’t wait to use this resource in my classroom!
References Gilbert, R & Hoepper, B. (2011). Teaching Society and Environment- 4th Edition. Victoria, Cengage Learning
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All's Well? Exploring the World of Water with Upper Primary Students is packed with lesson ideas and resources to bring the world of water to the classroom. Activities use Literacy and Numeracy general capabilities to develop Critical and creative thinking; investigations and simulation games to develop Intercultural understandings; and questioning values to encourage active global citizenship. Via Maree Whiteley
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February 15, 2013 2:49 AM
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Book list focusing on geography for K-6 published by the Geography Association UK.