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An organization through which teachers of geography in South Australia may express opinions on geographical and educational matters - some great resources here!

Excellent resources for each of the following: (1) What's the Future for Australian Food (2) Food Security an Inescapable Challenge (3) The Future of Water in Australia (4) Foreign Investment in Australia's Food Crops

ABC Educational Resources

Geocube…… re-inventing the way to explore Geography The world of Geography at your fingertips and just a mouse click away! Geocube is an attractive online resource about Geography. Geocube is based on the principle of the Rubik Cube with six faces and 54 topics. It is a virtual and easily accessible website which is available online for free. Move the Geocube around with your mouse and explore the faces and topics.Geocube provides an accessible way to read, see and watch what Geography is and geographers do.

An alternative search engine to Google designed for education. It organises information into a concept map and resources.

This module explores how the people of one region have adapted to seasonal floods. Students use a collection of photographs and limited resources to imagine how it would be to live in such conditions by writing a day-in-the-life diary. Key focus questions 1.How have people adapted to life on a floating village that experiences great seasonal changes? 2.How can communities adapt to seasonal flooding to take advantage of both wet and dry seasons? 3.What would it be like to live in an area where every year it goes from dry to flooding?

This unit explores the connections - economically and socially - between Australia and its good neighbours, the countries of Asia. Students will research production processes and discuss simple economic terminology, in the context of trade between Australia and Asia.

Australian Broadcasting Corporation Broadcast: 15/08/2013 Reporter: Jason Om Critics of plans for developing the Top End of Australia say its makes little economic or scientific sense. Transcript TONY JONES, PRESENTER: Kevin Rudd's plan to expand irrigation in the north follows the Coalition's vision of transforming the vast deserts into Australia's new food bowl.

Print and Laminate this poster depicting Topography of Land and Seafloor from GeoScience Australia

Year 8 Physical Geography - Geomorphology. Cross section of Uluru and Kata Tjuta. 

Scientific Explanation of the geology of Uluru and Kata Tjuta (Year 8 Physical Geography Unit)

GeoScience Australia Magazine with article on formation of Uluru and KataTjuta. 

You can search by country or business to find the top sites/searches visited via Facebook, Twitter, YouTube & Google

Navigating Peace Fact Sheet about Management Issues of the River Nile. 

During election campaigns you don't often hear political leaders agree on anything. But there is one idea that Tony Abbott and Kevin Rudd both say they'll work on - in different ways, if they win the election. They both reckon farming could have a much bigger future in the North of Australia.

What is food security? Food security exists when all people, at all times, have physical and economic access to enough safe and nutritious food to meet their dietary needs and food preferences for an active and healthy lifestyle. CASE STUDIES

Extremely useful website (and Android and iPad app) that is real-time flight tracking. Click on any yellow plane to pull up a side menu that gives you flight data (altitude, latitude, longitude, vertical speed, etc.). Click on 3D and it will bring up a cockpit view (you must have Google Earth installled to access this feature). 

Step-by-step creation tool for GPS Mission. Use GPS mission to create a mission for students (can be used on phones or tablets) with instructions, clues and maps. Also useful for creating history walks with photographs of before and after shots of locations (you need to sign up to upload photographs).