CSIRO Case Study into Indigenous Relationships to water and attitudes to key water issues in the Pilbara - water supply, mine water use and rapid economic development.
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.
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
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.
Google Earth Layers Gallery. Select via category side-bar or search function at top of page. The layers function is also available through Google Earth (you need to click the layers section on the side-bar).
UK Curriculum site with resources for teachers. Skills section is probably more useful to AC teachers, but a wonderful site. (There are also teachit sites for history and english). Sign up is free.
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).
Extremely popular and economical Australia-NZ wide competition that aligns with the AC. Students and schools get certificates and competition is easy for teachers to run. Please ask me if you have any questions about the Asia-Wise or the Australian History Competition.
Location guessing game where students can play alone or against each other on multiple computers (no need to share the same machine) collecting points for speed and accuracy. Ignore the ad and click either "Sign In" or "Visit" to play as a guest.
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).
Commercial site that allows you to create maps using layers. The tutorial is essential to learning how to use the site and understanding which pricing plan may be suitable should your school choose to use this.
This document has been created to assist teachers (secondary level) who are new to teaching Geography. Sections of this document will be useful to primary teachers as well. For example BOLTS Conventions.
