Australian Geography Teachers Association Conference presentations
AGTA 2015 Conference, Rotorua, New Zealand: 11-15 January 2015
Don Biddle Awards
Recipients: Rob Berry, Nick Hutchinson, Jeana Kriewaldt and Emmy Terry — Citations
Keynote presentations
Professor John Morgan
Thursday 15 January 2015
The Australian Curriculum: Geography through the lens of geographical futures
Associate Professor Alaric Maude
Thursday 15 January 2015
The idea of powerful knowledge, where it comes from, and then how some/much of the Australian Curriculum: Geography can be expressed as powerful knowledge
Workshops
Davina Baird and Michael Papageorgiou: Planning matters! Tools for real town planning in the classroom - Part1 :: Part 2
John Butler: Thinking, inquiring and literacy skills in Geography
Susan Bentley: One city - two ways of seeing - Sao Paulo, Brazil
Susan Bentley: Pathways to ensuring the 'Right to Food'
Lorraine Chaffer: Place and Liveability
Susan Caldis: Interested and influential :: Assessment for learning :: Geography comes alive for teachers and students
Trish Douglas and Lynne Griffiths: Engaging students with special needs in the Geography classroom
Sue Jones: Renovating assessment tasks using AC: Geography achievement standards
David Lergessner: The Great Barrier Reef – past, present and future :: Food security
Susan Martin: The river. The city. Together again
Rebecca Nicholas: Using iPads in the geography classroom
Andrew Penny and Joanne Wegener: Geography Skills for the Australian Curriculum
Claire Richards: Art and hands-on activities in the geography classroom
Robert Richie: Positive Psychology in the Geography classroom: Presentation :: Paper
Louise Swanson: Project-based learning: sustainability cross curriculum project
Fieldwork
Brad Scott: New Zealand - An introduction to geological hazards
Post-conference tour
Tim Hunter and Steve Clarke: Christchurch - Disaster & Rebuild
Background papers
All the following papers were written by the conference convenor Nick Hutchinson
A notional transect across the Volcanic Plateau
Addressing some inquiry questions about South Island High Country
Classroom resources
>> Tarawera Te Maunga Tapu: online resource
>> Aoraki/ Mount Cook National Park: education resource 2010
>> River Life: Explore the ecology of braided rivers in the Mackenzie Basin
>> Canterbury Earthquake Teaching Resource
Social media
>> Twitter (#AGTANZ2015) & Storify