Understanding and Teaching the Australian Curriculum: Geography for Primary Schools Following the recent publication of the first-ever Australia Curriculum: Geography for F–12, primary school teachers are expected to play the key role in implementing the curriculum in Australian schools – yet most primary teachers are not geography scholars, and many are likely to lack confidence in teaching the subject due to their uncertainty about what it entails. Understanding and Teaching the Australian Geography Curriculum for Primary Schools is designed to ease the burden of primary teachers by showing them how to understand and use the curriculum they are being asked to teach. Features of the book include: By unpacking the Australian Curriculum: Geography in terms of that non-geographers can easily understand, this book takes work out of standards-aligned geography instruction, proving that geography is an interesting and important subject which imparts essential understandings and skills and contributes to the personal and social development of young children.
Geograph Britain and Ireland - photograph every grid square! Public Profiler Old-Maps - the online repository of historic maps - home page Australian Geography Teachers Association OS GB Mapping from The Hug The Australian Curriculum v6.0 Geography: Rationale Rationale Geography is a structured way of exploring, analysing and understanding the characteristics of the places that make up our world, using the concepts of place, space, environment, interconnection, sustainability, scale and change. It addresses scales from the personal to the global and time periods from a few years to thousands of years. Geography integrates knowledge from the natural sciences, social sciences and humanities to build a holistic understanding of the world. The concept of place develops students’ curiosity and wonder about the diversity of the world’s places, peoples, cultures and environments. Students use the concept of space to investigate the effects of location and distance on the characteristics of places, the significance of spatial distributions, and the organisation and management of space at different scales. Geography uses an inquiry approach to assist students to make meaning of their world.
Discovering Antarctica - teaching and learning resources on Antarctica Welcome | GeogSpace Home - Sky Rainforest Rescue The Australian Curriculum v6.0 Technologies: Technologies Technologies Rationale Technologies enrich and impact on the lives of people and societies globally. Australia needs enterprising individuals who can make discerning decisions about the development and use of technologies and who can independently and collaboratively develop solutions to complex challenges and contribute to sustainable patterns of living. The Australian Curriculum: Technologies describes two distinct but related subjects: Design and Technologies, in which students use design thinking and technologies to generate and produce designed solutions for authentic needs and opportunities. The Australian Curriculum: Technologies will ensure that all students benefit from learning about and working with traditional, contemporary and emerging technologies that shape the world in which we live. The practical nature of the Technologies learning area engages students in critical and creative thinking, including understanding interrelationships in systems when solving complex problems.
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The Geographical Association (2013) is a website with the objective of furthering geographical knowledge and understanding through education. Teachers, students, tutors, and academics across all levels of education are supported through journals, publications, training events, projects, websites and by lobbying government about the importance of geography. The site has links to teacher supports and resources that are available for immediate download. Although based in the UK, the supports are useful to the Australian perspective; particularly for supporting the curriculum in understanding world perceptions.
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The Geographical Association. (2013). Geographical Association. Retrieved from by mcclure88 Jun 9