Geography Teachers' Association of Victoria Inc.

Resources

Orbis Library
Organisations
Units of work
VCE journal articles
VCE resources

Beijing 2008 Olympic Games resources

AGTA and the Geographical Association (UK) have produced an outstandng set of resources related to the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games. Another geography unit on the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games prepared by AFSSSE is available here. The Geographical Association's Planet Sport website provides other resources related to Sport Geography.

Spatial concepts

A series of nine spatial concept posters in full colour illustrate each spatial concept with maps, photographs and other data, as well as providing clear definitions and handy catchphrases. Download an order form, copies of work sheets, teacher notes and a summary activity.

VCE Units

The following resource is in MS Word fomat.

• Planning grid for VCE Geography 2006

Units of work

The following resource materilas require Adobe Acrobat Reader.

• Mt Buller - An Introduction to GIS
• Up the Merri Creek
• Impacts of Global Change
• Caught in the Web!
• Mornington Foreshore and Harbour Fieldwork

The following units of work are in MS Word fomat.

• Tourist Places
• Desert WebQuest

GIS Resources

ESRI Professional development activity Tuesday 14 November 2006 - Support materials here

GIS Units

2006 FIFA World Cup Germany

GIS data related to the 2006 FIFA World CupT held in Germany is provided in the attached files.

• Download MapInfo 2006 World Cup data file here (636 KB)
• Download ArcView 2006 World Cup data file here (11.06 MB)

Save the desired zip file file to a folder named GISWorldCup2006, extract the files, then use them in the appropriate GIS software.

Data source acknowledgement: MapInfo Corporation from National Imagery and Mapping Agency (NIMA) Data: World Boundaries and Digital Chart of the World.
Development of accompanying material: Sincere thanks to Pat Beeson who developed this data for use within schools. Any queries should be sent to Pat Beeson. The ArcView data has been further developed by Rob Berry.