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Welcome back! Term 1 awaits us all.
We hope that your holidays were fantastic and that you enjoyed time away from school with family and friends.
Only sorry that the holidays have ended for those of you in Tāmaki Makarau with the extensive flooding that we have seen. We hope that you are safe.
Have an excellent summer holiday and best wishes for the festive season!
Have a fantastic holiday – we all need it!
Please relax and enjoy time with whānau and friends.
Get out and about in our lovely country.
Enjoy having a sleep in and hanging out.
If you are off to SOCCON in Week 1 we might see you there!
Scholarship geography lectures
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Sustainable Urban Growth: Mel Wall for Scholarship students:
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Sustainable Urban Growth (Scholarship Lecture) powerpoint – from Mel Wall
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2022 Membership Update
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Welcome back to Term 3!
We hope that this term will be an excellent one for you all with less disruption and more time for great geographical experiences in your classrooms.
Look after yourselves and have a great term.
Have a fantastic holiday! Relax and rest.
Urban Growth and Inequality by Larry Murphy
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Pre-Field trip activities
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Curriculum Change in NCEA Geography – an update
Gill Hanna (Avondale College) and Mary Robinson (Kaiārahi) give an update on the NCEA changes.
Eleanor Rattray from St Mary’s College, Ponsonby talks about putting the Geography into SST
Check out this link to see and hear from Eleanor (and Bronwyn – in absentia)
Mātauranga Māori – Karen Fisher
Please find a link to the talk by Karen Fisher on Mātauranga Māori from Wednesday 25 May.
Watch this here:
What is Urban Growth? by Tom Baker
Check out the recording of the lecture from Wednesday 1 June.
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What is Urban Growth?
Slides from Tom Baker’s presentation for scholarship students.
SCHOLARSHIP TALKS FOR STUDENTS
AGTA have partnered with the School of Environment, university of Auckland to present three scholarship sessions for students.
The first of these is a lecture by Tom Baker entitled “What is Urban Growth” It will be held on on Wednesday 1 June at 4pm – details below.
Please use the link provided below to access this.
Please click this URL to join.https://auckland.zoom.us/j/95271957596…
Passcode: 692601
The other two sessions will be:
- Urban Growth and Inequality – Larry Murphy – 4pm – 29 June
- Sustainable Urban Growth – Mel Wall – 4pm – 17 August
Details of these two sessions will be available later here and on the FB page.
We have included a flyer for you to advertise these workshops in your Geography area of the school.
RESOURCES from the Curriculum Change hui yesterday will be uploaded here.
We are just editing the presentations and they will be uploaded along with the related power points as soon as we have completed this job.
For those of you who came yesterday we hope you found the day useful.
AGTA Hui and AGM
We hope you have had a restful break. The AGTA will be hosting its annual AGM in conjunction with a curriculum change hui on the 25th May 2022 at Alexandra Park in Auckland.
The AGTA Curriculum Change Hui provides the chance for discussion and professional learning to support and inspire Geography Teachers in advance of the incoming curriculum changes. This free event includes the following:
- Dr Karen Fisher will explore Mātauranga Māori and Geography.
- Dr Bronwyn Houliston and Eleanor Rattray will share their experiences of incorporating Geography in the Junior Social Studies classroom while navigating the Aotearoa NZ Histories and Social Studies Curriculum Refresh.
- Mary Robinson (Kaiarahi) and Gill Hanna will provide insight into the future of teaching, learning and assessment in Geography.
- This will be followed by the Auckland Geography Teachers Association AGM.
- There will be opportunities for Q&A
This event is FREE and we welcome all Geography teachers to come along!
We look forward to seeing you there!
Mallory, Eleanor and the AGTA committee.
Term 2 begins – let’s hope it’s a calmer one this time.
There is lots of activity happening with the AGTA this term. Get involved!
Well done! Congratulations!!
Surviving Term 1, 2022 – it’s been such a crazy term.
Please have a relaxing break and enjoy time with whānau and friends.
Public spaces in AKL city – a teaching and learning resource
A new teaching. learning and assessment resource has been provided to us from Hannah Wood at Selwyn College.
It is focussed on Public Spaces in Auckland City – with the CBD as the focus
You can find it here.
Thank-you Hannah.
Thinking about scholarship with your classes for 2022
Here is a great resource for you on Megacities from Hannah Wood at Selwyn College.
The photo above is from her classroom display – way to go Hannah.
Here are the labels Hannah used in her classroom display
Ukraine – Russia war
If you are wanting to cover this in your classes then you might find this useful.
Created by Aidan Daly at Hobsonville Point Secondary School – a great resource on the war aimed at Level 3 students.
There is a resource booklet and a question paper as well.
Awesome work Aidan.
Ngā mihi
What a term!!!
Let us know what you would like the AGTA to do this year for you in your Geography department.
We will write exams, of course, and hopefully have an end of year course but what else would you like to see us do.
Let us know here!!
Welcome Back to 2022
Hope you have had a very relaxing and happy holiday.
Have a great start to the year. 🙂
Goose Chase QUIZ
Our annual Auckland based Geography quiz has had a makeover this year. Instead, we would love your Geography students to participate in our online revision challenge using GooseChase!
This is free of charge and open to all Geography students (Years 11-13), who have a device.
What do your ākonga need to do? Complete FIVE different revision ‘missions’ by uploading a mixture or photos, diagrams, or revision tasks to the GooseChase app.
The GooseChase will go live on Friday 5th November @ 9am and close on Friday 19th November @ 3pm. Students can complete the missions from home or in school. What do you need to do? Encourage your Geography students to participate in this fun revision activity! Prize packs will be sent out to students via post/online. To join the online adventure, please register your students’ names here and share the ‘player instruction sheet’ with your Geography classes today (below).
For those of you returning to the classroom in Level 3
Good luck if you are heading back to the classroom tomorrow.
2021 has been the weirdest year ever and it has hit teachers and students very hard.
Please look after yourself and your whānau (first and foremost) and then your students.
How natural disasters benefit rich people but make the poor poorer – an illustrated story
The vaccination rate for every suburb in New Zealand on one interactive map
View the overall vaccine rate for every suburb in the country. Built by the Spinoff’s head of data, Harkanwal Singh. Updated every Wednesday.
Geography in a jar
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A revIsion Test for Level 2 students
A test for students who have been looking at the Amazon rainforest for 2.1
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1oX618cibCpDuvhoEaft-1RPdms9gC1OJoID6RniPJ1o/copy
and a mark schedule
Thanks to Mallory O’Brien from Rangitoto for these two activities
some revision actiVIties for Level 3
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Happy Holidays everyone
It’s been a long term especially those of you in the Auckland region. I hope that you all (wherever in Aotearoa NZ you may be) have an excellent holiday with family.
Some of you might be able to travel a bit and inject some $ into the NZ economy – please do this I am sure our tourist operators will appreciate it.
For those of you in the Auckland region – with luck we will be able to move around a little more next week. But, if we can’t then please:
- Put away your laptops for a while.
- Close off zoom, MS Teams or whatever system you have been using
- Turn off school notifications on your phone
and
And
Have some time just for you!
Relax, refresh and rejuvenate!
Are you teaching about Hurricanes or Tropical cyclones?
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Make a 3 D model
Whilst we have been in lockdown Level 4 I asked my class to make a 3D model of the Lee’s Migration Model.
I wanted to get them off their laptops and doing something fun. They had to use material lying around the house.
I wasn’t expecting much from the students but look at this.
I think this student really understands the model.
Do you look at the Christchurch eQ with your Level 1 students?
These links may be helpful.
The first link is from GNS Science.
Thanks to Jacinda Andrews for sharing these.