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Discovering Geography

Teach the Australian Curriculum: Geography F-6 with ease

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About the series

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Teacher Resource Books

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Picture Cards

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Student Topic Books

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Lower Primary books by topic

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Middle Primary books by topic

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Upper Primary books by topic

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Discovering Geography Packs

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About the series

Discovering Geography is a comprehensive, three-level resource that assists with the implementation, lesson planning and on-going teaching of the Australian Curriculum: Geography, Foundation to Year 6.

The Discovering Geography resources are separated into Lower (F-2), Middle (3-4) and Upper (5-6) Primary levels. For each level, there is a Teachers Resource Book which includes clear integrated pedagogy notes, scaffolded learning sequences, engaging inquiry activities blackline masters and a pack of picture cards, as well as a number of Student Topic Books.

In 2015, Discovering Geography won Best Primary Resource Award at the Australian Geography Teachers Association (AGTA) and Best Primary Student Resource - Arts/Science/Humanities at the Educational Publishing Awards Australia (EPAA) 2015.

Discovering Geography was written and reviewed by experienced educators with Geography expertise, led by John Butler OAM, who was awarded the Medal of the Order of Australia (OAM) in 2006 for his contribution to education, particularly in the field of Geography.

Discovering Geography is the third Discovering series to be published, building on the popular, award-winning series Discovering History and Discovering Science.

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Teacher Resource Books

Teacher Resource Books are at the heart of the Discovering Geography series. With this comprehensive and supportive Teacher Resource Book in hand, all educators will feel confident planning and teaching creative Australian Curriculum: Geography lessons that engage learners.

Teacher Resource Books for Lower, Middle and Upper Primary unpack the curriculum and support the teaching of Geography. They include a clear, integrated Geography pedagogy, detailed topic overviews with curriculum links, scaffolded learning sequences with teaching activities, which suggest ways to use all components of the series, and engaging inquiry activities blackline masters (BLMs) for student use at each year level.

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Teacher Resource Books

Blackline masters (BLMs) are linked to general capabilities and cross-curriculum priorities, geographical concepts and skills. They have been created to engage students and can be photocopied.

Each Teacher Resource Book also includes a set of Picture Cards and complimentary access to the online content, which includes digital versions of the Picture Cards, curriculum correlation charts, including for the NSW syllabus, and reading levels charts.

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The rationale emphasises the intrinsic structure of geography in exploring and analysing subject matter. It also implies that such a structure will help the learner to understand the large and potentially confusing set of characteristics that make up our world. The seven concepts within this structure are place, space, environment, interconnection, sustainability, scale and change, and are dealt with in detail in Chapter 2.

The rationale indicates the scope of geography in spatial and temporal scales. Geography looks at the spatial patterns and characteristics on the Earth's surface from the small scale of a person's local radius up to a global scale.

The second paragraph of the rationale highlights geography as an integrative discipline, which incorporates elements of the natural and social sciences. Geography is integrative because it studies what we see around us on the Earth's surface--a mixture of both natural and human features. The primary years curriculum balances physical and human topics with emphasis on16xt16he interactions between the two.

The final point in the extract of the rationale stresses the inquiry approach (dealt with in Chapter 6)--raising questions, reflecting on data and participating in actions as a result of the inquiry.

Aims

The Foundation?Year 10 Australian Curriculum: Geography aims to ensure that students develop: ? a sense of wonder, curiosity and respect

about places, people, cultures and environments throughout the world ? a deep geographical knowledge of their own locality, Australia, the Asia region and the world ? the ability to think geographically, using geographical concepts ? the capacity to be competent, critical and creative users of geographical inquiry methods and skills ? as informed, responsible and active citizens who can contribute to the development of an environmentally and economically sustainable, and socially just world.

32x32 ? Australian Curriculum, Assessment and Reporting

Authority, 2014

This set of aims meets the needs of the 21stcentury learner and provides strong guidelines for primary geography teaching.

The Australian Curriculum supports geography as a subject that guides students in exploring the world around them.

Geographical concepts

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What is a geographical concept?

A concept is an organising idea. Concepts form the structures of learning in subjects. They give meaning to the content and knowledge of a subject because they link all the pieces of content together. The seven concepts used in the Australian Curriculum: Geography have been refined from a much larger number of subconcepts. Each helps the teacher and the learner focus on the important ideas of geography.

Concepts should not be taught directly to students at primary school level. It is pointless to try to give a class a lesson on `place' or `scale' or `space'. Instead, help students develop an understanding of geographical concepts by checking that the learning activities relate to one or more of the concepts and that all concepts are covered a number of times.

The seven concepts in the Australian Curriculum: Geography are shown in the table at right, along with key words that are often used in and around each concept.

Concept

Key words

Place

uniqueness, identity, diversity, meaning

Space

location, patterns, trends, proximity, relative location, density

Environment

system, biosphere, biodiversity, processes

Interconnection human environment, links, interdependence, association, flow, processes

Sustainability

ecology, future, interconnection, equity, justice, triple bottom line

Scale

directions, hierarchy, local, global, zoom

Change

future, pace, dynamic, equilibrium, consistency

Sample pages are available online for each Teachers Resource Book

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Discovering Geography BLM 3

Climates of Europe and North America

Name: 1. Colour in the maps of the climates of Europe and North America.

Use the same colour for each type of climate on both continents. Remember to colour it in the key for each map.

KEY Climate zones

Polar Temperate Arid Tropical Mediterranean Mountains

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2. What is similar about the climates of both continents?

3. What is different about the climates of both continents?

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