Creative Teaching Ideas

Curriculum context: Australian curriculum for Geography. This package includes everything you need to cover the Year 7 Geography unit 'Water in the World'. Includes: - Teacher introductory powerpoint - Student assessment task (word format & powerpoint format) - Contains Socrative revision quiz/test available as a PDF or as an online code. - Understanding the Water Cycle Worksheet - Blank Pie Graph for students to complete Percentage (%) of Usable Water in the World. - Blank Graph paper for Ba

Financial and Consumer Education for Teens. Includes focus questions for class discussion and video link to Dave Ramsey's Generation Change "Needs Vs Wants". Ideal for Consumer & Financial literacy, suitable for Australian Curriculum standards and any course targetted at middle school students.

Suitable forYear 7 Geography, (Australian Curriculum standards), this resource can be used as a test or an in class mapping skills activity. Contains everything you need for a smooth test or mapping skills activity. Questions relate to BOLTS, latitude and longitude, location, cardinal directions, SPICESS (7 Geographical concepts). Extended tasks are also provided at 6 - 12 months above standard to provide for differentiation in the classroom. Test included, choose from At Standard, Advanced or s

The concepts of Space, Place, Interconnection, Change, Environment, Sustainability and Scale (SPICESS) are essential concepts for for the study of Geography. This resource links directly to the Geographical knowledge and understanding strand of the Australian and Victorian Curriculum standards. This set of posters defines each of the key terms using the definitions outlined in the latest version of the Australian Curriculum. Note: Contains both PDF and Powerpoint version. - Suitable for Australi

SOLUTIONS FOCUS: All over the world people are working to come up with solutions to help address future food security. Some of these ideas involve rethinking the way we eat, the way we farm and the way the food supply chain works. They can also mean addressing underlying social and environmental issues, like poverty, access to water, and acting on climate change. TASK: Part 1: Students are required to watch the introductory video: Future Foods - Xploration Earth 2050 (available on CLickview

Curriculum context: Australian curriculum for Geography. Investigating water scarcity. - Do All Countries Have Equal Access to Water? Students create a graph to compare average water consumption among a variety of countries. - Investigate how water impacts the liveability of people in Australia and another country of your choice. - Includes Assessment Rubric that corresponds to Australian Curriculum Standards. - Socrative revision quiz/test also available in another listing.

Written for year 7 Liveability: Australian and Victorian Curriculum standards) An ideal, introduction to the unit Liveability for year 7 Geography. - Students watch a slideshow (contains of 40 slides) of various countries and places in the world and they rank the top 5 countries/places they would most like to live. - Students consider their own local community and the reasons why their family chose to live in a particular area and the positive and negative aspects of where they live. They use go

This assignment includes six primary source documents and two Conscription propaganda posters, to enable students to gain a deeper understanding of the Conscription debate in Australia during WW1. -This assignment is available in both MS Word and Powerpoint formats. - Contains 8 source documents clearly presented for students to examine. - A written booklet to guide students with their analysis and record their responses - Available in Word or PowerPoint format and easily editable

Chronological Order and Timeline Task - Includes Introductory Powerpoint + student activities. - Group Interactive task - Student individual wookbook task Key skills: Sequencing events, chronology, periods of time e.g. B.C, B.C.E, A.D, C.E Chronology is the science of arranging events in accordance to their occurrence. Makes learning these concepts simple and easy! Discuss: What is a timeline? - Form groups of 4 -5 students and using the class cards provided, place the events in chronological or

To think historically, students need to be able to: 1. Establish historical significance 2. Use primary source evidence 3. Identify continuity and change 4. Analyse cause and effect 5. Take historical perspectives, 6. Understand the contestability of historical interpretations and, 7. feel empathy for people and their experiences in the past. Taken together, these concepts tie “historical thinking” to competencies in “historical literacy.” In this case, “historical literacy” means gaining a de

This has been written specifically for the Australian Curriculum - Year 8 Geography Unit, "Landforms & Landscapes". Students choose a landform that they find interesting or would like to learn more about. Students need to first apply the seven concepts of SPICESS to examine their chosen landform and guide their research. Once they have completed the SPICESS task, they are to undertake further research and have a choice of a number of differentatied tasks, depending on their level of ability

Suitable for Australian Curriculum Standards. The Great Barrier Reef case study places the seven themes of geography (SPICESS: Space, Place, Interconnection, Change, Environment, Sustainability and Scale) into a meaningful context for students to understand. - Includes Case study on the Great Barrier Reef that explores each of the seven themes of Geography. (*Students will learn how to start thinking like a Geographer.) - Interactive Group Activity: The perfect activity to stimulate discussion

Students examine 8 primary and secondary source documents to analyse the reasons behind the fall of the Roman Empire. - Includes source booklet. - Question and answer worksheet - Extended response/essay question, structured.

An ideal introductory task to introduce students to topographic maps. Each task is clearly set our with detailed maps and diagrams, that are easy to read. The file contains a set of two worksheets to introduce students to reading Topographic maps. - Suitable for Year 8 Geography (Australian Curriculum Standards) -Topographic Maps "Ideal unit starter, makes reading and understanding topographic maps simple, clear and easy!

Written for Year 7 Humanities - Geography Topic "Liveability" This package includes introduction to the Unit, (based around students personal, local community) and Liveability research and oral presentation task, based on liveability statistics from the Economists 2018 Top 10 most liveable and 10 least liveable cities. (all current statistics 2018) Note: The assessment task can involve students working in pairs and presenting to the class, however if time permits or this may not work well with y

Ideal Unit Starter! Slideshow of the major cities in the world and other places people are forced to live such as refugee camps or detention centres. Students view the slideshow and rate their top five choices, and then give reasons why they have chosen these places. Students then consider the liveability of their own community and consider the positive and negative aspects of what makes a place liveable.

This is a fun way way to learn about Topography, using this map of Harry Potter's Hogwarts School. Fully editable, available as a word doc. Short, simple activity, that makes learning this skill fun and easy.

Suitable for Australian Curriculum standards: Help your students understand the conventions of mapping using BOLTSS. Booklet contains 6 tasks that fully explore each of the conventions of BOLTSS. This is a tried and tested activity, that is highly suitable for year 7 students. Contains video links to suitable introductory videos and a separate file for map attachments. Unit Test included, comes complete with everything you need to assess your students knowledge and skills of BOLTSS, SPICESS, la

Introduction to the Industrial Revolution + video review questions. An ideal and simple way to introduce students to this period in history. Included is introductory notes, review questions and follow up information for discussion. Causes of the Industrial Revolution: The Agricultural Revolution https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6QKIts2_yJ0 Suitable for Year 9 History: Australian Curriculum

Student's choose one of Australia's unique and iconic landforms or landscapes. This includes, but is not limited to;- The Great Barrier Reef, Jenolan caves, Jim Jim falls, Kata Tjuta, Lake Eyre, Mt Kosciuszko, Nullarbor Plain,The pinnacles, Three sisters, Twelve Apostles, Uluru, Wave Rock, Blue lake, Mt Gambia, Devils marbles, Coorong peninsula, Glasshouse mountains, etc.. Research questions are provided for guidance. Includes Assessment Rubric.