AGTA Awards for published materials

Biennial awards for achievement in resource development

2024 Awards

The 2024 AGTA Awards were presented in Darwin during the 2024 conference of the Australian Geography Teachers Association.

Details of the award winners is available here: 2024 AGTA Awards

Previous award winners

AGTA 2022 Award Recipients

The following Awards were presented at the AGTA 2022 Conference held in Hobart, Tasmania

Primary school resource (F-6)

Winner: How Cool is your School? (Published by She Maps)
Highly commended: Understanding Your Place: 20 – Minute Neighbourhoods Year 4-6 Geography Unit (Published by Geography Teachers’ Association of Victoria and DELWP)

Middle school resource (7-10) 

Winner: Good Humanities text book series (Published by Matilda Education)
Highly commended: Level 7 and Level 10 Water Unit (Published by Geography Teachers’ Association of Victoria and DELWP )

Senior school resource (11-12) 

Winner: Unit 3 Geography Fieldwork Resource: Fisherman’s Bend Montague Precinct Focus (Published by Geography Teachers’ Association of Victoria)

Digital / Online resource 

Winner: Year 5-6 and Years 9-10 Drones in Forestry (Published by Forest Learning and She Maps)
Highly commended: Forest Management – Year 10 (Published by Forest Learning and Geography Teachers’ Association of Victoria)

Reference Resources

Winner: Learn through Immersion (Published by Forest Learning – ForestVR)

Geographic education resource 

Winner: Open Learning Courses (Published by Geography Teachers’ Association of NSW&ACT)
Highly commended: 2021 Annual Set of Examination Packages (Published by Geographical Association of Western Australia)

Not-for-profit generated resource

Winner: Geography Classroom Posters Series (Published by Geography Teachers’ Association of NSW&ACT)

AGTA 2019 Award Recipients

The following Awards were presented at the AGTA 2019 Conference held at the Gold Coast, Queensland.

Senior School Resource Years 11 – 12

Joint winner: Western Australia ATAR Units 1 and 2 (Published by the Geographical Association of Western Australia)
Joint winner: Global Interactions 11 and Global Interactions 12 (Published by Pearson Australia)

Middle School Resource Years 7 – 10

Winner: Foodprint Melbourne (Published by the University of Melbourne and the Geography Teachers Association of Victoria)

Primary School Resource Years F – 6

Winner: Primary Geography Alive (Published by the Geography Teachers’ Association of NSW and ACT)

Geographic Education Resource

Winner: Certificate of Geography Competency (Published by the Geography Teachers Association of Victoria)

Not-For-Profit Generated Resource

Winner: MobileMuster-Mobile Connections (Published by Mobile Muster and Field of Mars Environmental Education Centre)
Highly Commended: Geography Bulletin, Issue 50 Number 3 (Published by the Geography Teachers Association of NSW and ACT)

AGTA 2016 Award Recipients

The following Awards were presented at the AGTA 2017 Conference held in Melbourne, Victoria.

Primary resource (F-6)

No awards

Middel school resource (7-10)

Winner: Geography: NSW Syllabus for the Australian Curriculum (Published by Cambridge University Press)

Senior secondary resource (11-12)

Winner: VCE Geography series (Published by GTAV)

Digital resource

Winner: Food for Thought (Published by Oxfam Australia)

Geographic education resource

Winner: Interaction Vol 44 No 1, The Fieldwork Issue (Published by GTAV)
Highly commended: Geographical Education, Vol 28 (2015) (Produced by AGTA)

Non-commercial/Not-for-profit generated resource

Highly commended: Spatial Educators Toolkit (Produced by Queensland Spatial Information Council)

AGTA 2014 Award Recipients

The following Awards were presented at the AGTA 2015 Conference held in Rotorua, New Zealand.

Primary resource (F-6)

Winner: Discovering Geography (Published by Pearson)

Junior secondary resource (7-10)

Winner: Geography Alive for the Australian Curriculum (Years 7-10) (Published by Jacaranda, John Wiley Sons)
Highly commended: Jacaranda Atlas (8th Edition) (Published by Jacaranda, John Wiley Sons)
Highly commended: Pearson Geography 7-8 series (Published by Pearson)

Senior secondary resource (11-12)

No awards

Digital resource

Highly commended: Tsunami: The Ultimate Guide (Produced by Australian Tsunami Advisory Group)

Geographic education resource

No awards

Non-commercial/Not-for-profit generated resource

Winner: Get Connected: Water in the World (Produced by World Vision Australia)

AGTA 2012 Award Recipients

The following Awards were presented at the AGTA 2013 Conference held in Perth, Western Australia.

Primary resource

Winner: Inquiry into Pandas Kit (GTASA)
Highly commended: All’s Well (One World Centre)

Junior secondary resource

Winner: Water for Life (GEP at GTAV)
Highly commended: Disaster Mapper (Attorney General Dept.)
Highly commended: Longman Atlas 6th Edition (Pearson)

Senior secondary resource

Joint Winner: VCE Resources & Perspectives Units 3 & 4 (GTAV)
Joint Winner: VCE Geography Environments Units 1 & 2 (GTAV)
Highly commended: Student Guide to Stage 3 Geography (GAWA)

Multi-media

Winner: Disaster Mapper (Attorney General Dept.)
Highly commended: Mapping your Career (GTAV)

Geographic resource

Winner: Keys to Geography: Essential Skills (Macmillan)
Highly commended: Interaction – Volume 39, March 2011(GTAV)

Non-commercial resource

No awards