Geography 2013

EXCELLENT site for resources. Note the equivalency for Key Stages to Australian year levels. 

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

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)

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

Extremely useful site with teacher resource booklets and student activities. Related websites in the right hand menu are worth exploring. 

How Uluru was formed dreamtime story.

Simple and very effective site with interactives that test students knowledge of simple, developing and advanced knowledge of physical and political boundaries and entities. Works brilliantly on IWBs. You may need to use photon on iPads due to flash issues with Safari. 

Useful activity for students to improve their speed, accuracy and knowledge of locations. May also be useful for motor skills development. As it is considered a 'game', you may need to alert IT in your school to get it through the filter. 

Shrinking stature Climate change is reducing the size of many animal and plant species, including some which supply vital nutrition, according to a new study. From micro-organisms to top predators, nearly 45 per cent of species for which data was reviewed grew smaller over multiple generations due to climate change, researchers found.

Human interaction with endangered species isn't always a death sentence for the animals. With careful coaxing and vigilance, some species have been brought back from the edge of extinction to thrive once again. KNOWN LOCALLY AS 'AL MAHA', the Arabian oryx ( Oryx leucoryx) is a regal-looking beast that features in Arabic poetry and paintings.

The humble backyard vegie patch is back in vogue in the suburbs of Australia. But can growing spuds and greens in the cities really avert a coming food crisis? "WE HAVE TWO SETS of needs as humans...sociability and sustenance," says Carolyn Steel, author of Hungry City and lecturer at Cambridge University.

See movements of the world's air traffic

Dimensions takes important places, events and things, and overlays them onto a map of where you are. Type in your postcode or a place name to get started.

Share worksheets with your Cool Kids. We provide a personalised link to forward to your students. This allows your students to complete their activity and send it back to you. It will be automatically recorded and linked to your Cool account. You will find your students' work in your dashboard.

Extremely useful blog if your school/students are interested in using Geography apps for iPad. 

Create maps re: Food Security using the Latest FAO Data

Today a food security index that ranks individual countries on food affordability, accessibility, availability, nutritional value and safety was published for the first time. A food security index is becoming increasingly important given the growing world population (expected to swell from 7 billion to 9 billion people by 2050) and the potential limits on our ability to provide food in coming years.

With the GBCA officially launching their new Green Star - Communities PILOT rating tool last week, questions are once again arising surrounding sustainable communities - and rightly so. The human race is living beyond its means, with the impacts of that behaviour evident in human-induced climate change, soil degradation, depleting resources, food scarcity, loss of biodiversity, species extinction and more.