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Ideas, resources, inspiration. Consultation period for the new NSW Geography syllabus from BOSTES. BOSTES (formerly the Board of Studies) has recently released the new NSW Geography syllabus for review. This syllabus, unique to NSW, incorporates the Australian Curriculum for Geography already being implemented in other states in Australia. The draft new syllabus can be found at the BOSTES website. The consultation session will only run until August 29, 2014. So it is a fairly brief period. Don't forget t...
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Prague - relics of the Cold War - HSIE Teachers
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Ideas, resources, inspiration. Prague - relics of the Cold War. Train stations and tunnels in Prague double as nuclear shelters. The stations and tunnels can be closed off with the use of lead doors to protect the population. The cavities for these blast doors are clearly visible to the trained eye at the base of the escalators at the entrance to each platform. Soviet ghosts: An empire in decay. Your comment will be posted after it is approved. Learning Across The Curriculum.
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Teaching with Lego - Geography and Business Studies - HSIE Teachers
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Ideas, resources, inspiration. Teaching with Lego - Geography and Business Studies. 8 Geography - Plastics in our Oceans. See Why lego keeps washing up on British beach. A website that allows users to examine how debris travels across oceans by way of ocean currents. Another interesting perspective on this issue is to look at the role that social media has played in recording information about pieces washed ashore. There is both a Facebook page. 8 Geography - Shell and Lego. Classroom discussions could i...
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Ideas, resources, inspiration. Taronga - events, openings and releases. To support student learning, Taronga are preparing a suite of. Resources based around the relationship of Ring-tailed Lemurs with their environment. This resources are intended for primary students. Read more about the Lemurs at Taronga. Read about Rainforest Heroes. TTA events in 2014. Read about Taronga Teachers Association. Learning Across The Curriculum.
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Youth Eco Summit - HSIE Teachers
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Ideas, resources, inspiration. Towards the beginning of the term we took 150 Year 7 students to the Youth Eco Summit. This is an annual two-day event held on October 22-3, is designed to engage students and teach them about sustainability. Nearly 3,000 students attended the event with over 130 schools represented. Students then used a home design app to design their own sustainable buildings on iPads. Students. Our students have been able to apply the knowledge gained at the Youth Eco Summit in the prepa...
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Tourism - Are we loving Venice to death? - HSIE Teachers
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Ideas, resources, inspiration. Tourism - Are we loving Venice to death? The vast number of tourists reduces the ability of cafés and restaurants to provide authentic dining experiences. In some of the cafés in Venice packaged or frozen food is served to enable the cafés to cater for the vast number of people in peak periods. As a result travellers may be disappointed by this aspect of their stay as they are not experiencing the authentic taste of Venice. Environmental impacts and structural damage.
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Game-based learning - World War I - HSIE Teachers
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Ideas, resources, inspiration. Game-based learning - World War I. For a closer look you can view the walkthrough from Giant Bomb. There have also been some other great links to resources circulated lately. You might like to check out:. Every day of WWI in a 6 minute time lapse film. 37 days: Countdown to World War I. European Film Gateway 1914. Revealed: The first Australian to die in World War I. History Channel - World War I videos. PBS - The Great War Lesson Plans. Learning Across The Curriculum.
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Ideas, resources, inspiration. Towards the beginning of the term we took 150 Year 7 students to the Youth Eco Summit. This is an annual two-day event held on October 22-3, is designed to engage students and teach them about sustainability. Nearly 3,000 students attended the event with over 130 schools represented. Students then used a home design app to design their own sustainable buildings on iPads. Students. Our students have been able to apply the knowledge gained at the Youth Eco Summit in the prepa...
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Ideas, resources, inspiration. If you are looking for a place for an excursion for Preliminary Geography for the topic Natural Resources, it may be worth checking out Newnes and Lidsdale. As you drive through Lithgow you can examine some former mining sites that have been rehabilitated (and those that have not). One site is the old Lithgow power station (known as the State Mine Gully Rehabilitation project). Lithgow's Pottery Estate. Wollemi National Park - Exploring cultural heritage.
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Ideas, resources, inspiration. Living in harmony with nature. Dermot O'Gorman, CEO of the World Wide Fund for Nature, spoke at the Eco Expo a few days ago. The theme of O'Gorman's presentation was "Is it possible to live in harmony with nature? Charles Keeling - CO2 monitoring. O'Gorman discussed the work of Charles (Dave) Keeling. On CO2 levels in our atmosphere. Keeling conducted research on CO2 level during the 1950s. This work has continued at the Scripps Institute of Oceanography. Keeling's work tie...
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