A short skills activity from Cashmere High School on a current event in Mexico.

Stealing Petrol in Mexico

Mrs Humanities – a social sciences teacher/blogger has just published this document on feedback and I thought it might be good for you to look at with your departments/faculties.

She is quite prolific as a blogger – you can read more from her HERE

feedback-power

I found these templates on twitter this morning and I thought they would be good to make with your classes to help them with six-figure grid references.

Find the template here: 6 Fig Grid Ref (1 to 50 thou) with pictures

And, below is the crocodile version:

These links are files from the old WikiSpaces website run by Team Solutions.

Resources include:

Achievement standard guidelines and tips

Geography Tips including notes and ideas on writing. literacy and so on.

Planning resources – resources to help you plan your geography courses

Revision activities – games and ideas to help your students in the classroom

Significant event resources

Other useful resources 

Coral Reefs

Flyer The global topic of Tropical Coral Reefs

Fold Mountains

Flyer for Global topic of Fold Mountains

The on-going deterioration and future sustainability of the Great Barrier Reef

Flyer for AS 91431 Issue of the sustainability of the Great Barrier Reef

The Issue: The Hauraki Gulf – an ecosystem under pressure

Flyer on L3 Issue on the Hauraki Gulf

Have a three week Geography unit – teach it around option time and watch the numbers climb.

Some ideas include:

Global coffee production and consumption; issues around coffee production and consumption and how this is significant tp people.

OR the same ideas but with chocolate (see a unit plan below)

Chocolate unit outline 2017 v3

OR

Have a three week unit on Climate change

Geography weeks unit plan

Check these out:

What is geography promotional powerpoint?

year 11 promotion poster

Thanks to Denise from WBHS.

and

This one encouraging Year 11’s to do Level 2 Geography

Thanks Gareth from Aorere College.

Find and fix the mistakes – skills

FIND AND FIX THE MISTAKES Name

General revision – so easy to adapt for your situation and students

I have the Smiley Face Christchurch equakes

Thanks very much June for something fun…..

Jono Smith from Avondale College shared this with us – useful for all levels – thanks Jono.

2. Manukau Harbour Mapping questions

2. Manukau Harbour – Answers

Topographical map

The first is a Quizlet on the Christchurch Earthquake for 11GEO extreme natural events (hopefully the link works). I use Quizlet Live and shuffle the teams each time, to help reinforce key points.

https://quizlet.com/_3k4pez

The second one is a quizlet on ‘temporal variations’ for tourism development in Hawaii for 13GEO

https://quizlet.com/_3jdz31

And the third one is another quizlet for The Amazon for Natural environments for 12GEO

https://quizlet.com/_2c4dis

Get amongst it all – Jacinda Andrews from Diocesan is the Queen of these – oh to have the energy myself!

Denise Potter shares her plan with us for the new year,

Two courses – one 6 months and the other for the year, Sounds like something we could all investigate.

This is a great resource to revise skills with students at this time of the year or to use them at any times.

Check out the resource here

Thanks Nick Moyle, Cashmere High School

http://gisinschools-nz.maps.arcgis.com/home/index.html

There is simply so much there!

Go explore!

For a coastal nation fixated on home ownership, coastal erosion represents a problem. Large parts of the country were built in the wrong place, under the assumption the land would stay put. For most of the areas likely to be hit by rising seas, there are decades to prepare before the water starts lapping at their door.

There’s no such luck in Granity, Ngakawau and Hector on the West Coast of the South Island.

This image has been downloaded from https://westcoast.recollect.co.nz/ and may be subject to copyright restrictions. Please verify the copyright status before any reuse of this image.

2018 was like no other – coastal erosion is getting worse.

Check out this internal and resources at this link

Thanks for these resources Sarah

There is an article on this topic on Sunday TV1 (7 October 2018) – check it out.

our-fresh-water-at-a-glance_0

How often do your students ask this question?

Let them see this handout shared with us all from Aidan from HPSS – it has heaps of different jobs that Geographers can do.

http://agta.org.nz/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/Geography-promo.pdf

The “mock” examinations have been uploaded here this morning.

Please do check through the examinations yourselves (and the schedules) – they have been moderated by AGTA committee members but it is important you do this as well. 

With regard to the skills examinations and the scholarship exam:

1. The Level 1 examination uses the 2012 Resource booklet on Sydney.
2. The Level 2 and 3 examination are new resource booklets – they are presented here in a pdf version only.
3. The scholarship examination uses the 2011 Resource booklet alongside a supplementary booklet. 

Not a member of AGTA but want to use these mock exams – well, contact us at agtassociation@gmail.com

Geo quiz  – Thanks Aidan for this.

These are all up on the website! FIND the resources HERE.

THanks Karen Fisher from the School of Environment.

And Steve Smith for the videoing. 🙂

Thanks Aidan for this great resource  – find it here

Fun quiz for your students to do either

without allowing students to use their devices (for the Geo experts in your class) or

with devices (and it can be made a race against the clock).

Geogrefresh

Geogrefresh – answers

Thanks to Aidan Daly at HPSS for this fun quiz….

Hi everyone
My 2018 Scholarship Resource is proving very popular across both islands. If you haven’t ordered yours please contact me at jean.mccann@xtra.co.nz for a flyer. All the research work on fresh water has been done for you.

Testimonial

” This resource is a godsend. It’s saved me from doing all the legwork around freshwater”

At St. Cuthbert’s College this year we decided to link all of our teaching to the SDGs so students could see how important they are.

The work we do in:

Level 3 links to the following goals:

• Issue – 13, 16 and 4
• Global – 14, 15, 1, 2 and 3 – also links to the Freshwater topic for scholarship
• Research – 8, 11 and 12
• Cultural Process – Migration – 9, 10 and 7
• Natural Processes – Coastal – 14 and 15

Level 2 links to the following goals:

• Research – 8, 12 and 9
• Issue – 13, 14 and 15 (see below for a unit plan)
• Differences in development – all but a focus on 1- 6 and 10
• Global – all but a focus on 1- 6 and 10
• Natural Environment – 7, 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12

Level 1 links to the following goals:

• Research – 11
• Issue – 8, 9 and 12
• Spatial Analysis – 15
• Population – 1-6, 8, 11 and 12
• Extreme Natural Events – 13, 14 and 15, 8 and 11

We have them all covered!

Unit Outline 2018 Marine reserves

Auckland Lantern Festival_Eric Ngan_Geography Teachers 291117

FAQ Lantern_Domain

Charles Johnston from AUT spoke at our recent planning day about Auckland as a tourist destination.

The talk was well received by the teachers present. Lots of ideas were discussed but many staff thought it would be a great idea to explore for research or issue.

Here’s the link to the powerpoint.

ATEED Study Auckland Project

The ASHS library has an internal window / display area  looking out onto a busy corridor. The librarians use the space for promoting various topics and each display normally runs for 3 / 4 weeks.

The wonderful ladies who manage our library set up a display to promote geography for me. This coincided with our open evening during week three this term and drew plenty of interest. The theme was “I am a geographer” with a range of topics from exploration to technology in geography.

I have attached some photos and a link to a google folder with more photos. 

What a fantastic thing to do Kevin Harvey at ASHS.