resources resources on the day in the life of a child, for example: and . Caritas pictorial journey which demonstrates daily life around the world. Note: Caritas is a Catholic aid & development agency. for schools include Kids4Kids DVDs on children living Cambodia, an Indian village and a New Delhi slum. Note: TEAR is a Protestant aid and development agency, and portions are explicitly religious. Vimeo host a sample of each. Related literary resources include: The by Libby Hathorn and Stanley Wong All in a Day by Mitsumaso Anno Dragonkeeper by Carole Wilkinson Secret Keeper by Mitali Perkins by Andy Mulligan Geographical concepts Geographical inquiry skills Geographical tools Place: the significance of places and what they are like eg characteristics of places. Space: the significance of location and spatial distribution, and ways people organise and manage spaces that we live in eg; how people organise and manage spaces in their local environment. Environment: the significance of the environment on human life, and the important interrelationships between humans and the environment eg how the environment influences people and places; how people influence the environment; the effect of natural disasters on the environment. Interconnection: no object of geographical study can be viewed in isolation eg how environments influence where people live; ways people influence the characteristics of their environments. Acquiring geographical information develop geographical questions to investigate and plan an inquiry (ACHGS033, ACHGS040) collect and record relevant geographical data and information, using ethical protocols, from primary data and secondary information sources, for example, by observing, by interviewing, conducting surveys, or using maps, visual representations, statistical sources and reports, the media or the internet (ACHGS034, ACHGS041) Processing geographical information evaluate sources for their usefulness (ACHGS035, ACHGS042) represent data in different forms, for example plans, graphs, tables, sketches Maps – maps, small-scale maps, topographic maps, flowline maps maps to identify location, latitude, direction, distance, map references, spatial distributions and patterns Fieldwork – observing, measuring, collecting and recording data, conducting surveys and interviews fieldwork instruments such as measuring devices, maps, photographs, compasses, GPS Graphs and statistics – pictographs, data tables, column graphs, line graphs, climate graphs multiple graphs on a geographical theme statistics to find patterns Spatial technologies –
Scale: the way that geographical phenomena and problems can be examined at different spatial levels eg environmental and human characteristics of places on local and regional scales; the effect of events on people and places locally and regionally. Sustainability: the capacity of the environment to continue to support our lives and the lives of other living creatures into the future eg extent of environmental change; environmental management practices; sustainability initiatives. Change: explaining geographical phenomena by investigating how they have developed over time eg changes to environmental and human characteristics of places. and diagrams (ACHGS035, ACHGS042) represent different types of geographical information by constructing maps that conform to cartographic conventions using spatial technologies as appropriate (ACHGS036, ACHGS043) interpret geographical data and information, digital and spatial technologies as appropriate, and identify spatial distributions, patterns and trends, and infer relationships to draw conclusions (ACHGS037, ACHGS044) Communicating geographical information present findings and ideas in a range of communication forms as appropriate (ACHGS038, ACHGS045) reflect on their learning to propose individual and collective action in response to a contemporary geographical challenge and describe the expected effects of their proposal on different groups of people (ACHGS039, ACHGS046) virtual maps, satellite images, global positioning systems (GPS) Visual representations – photographs, aerial photographs, illustrations, flow diagrams, annotated diagrams, multimedia, web tools.