Welcome to the area of the site dedicated to teachers of Geography in New Zealand schools. Here you will find:

• Geography Resource Centre (GRC) order form
• resources for teaching - material to accompany GeoEd articles, mapping, NCEA concepts and Resource Kits
• links to websites
• events of particular interest to teachers
• contact information for your representative on the New Zealand Board of Geography Teachers (NZBoGT) and your Senior Subject Advisor
• Network, the quarterly newsletter produced by NZBoGT
• competition details for teachers - Maatangi Whenua, Transit New Zealand Year 13 Geography Competition, GIS in Schools Competition, 2007 Humanities Award 

We are currently developing this area of our site so if you have ideas for other useful content or information you would like to share with fellow teachers please contact us.

Geography Resource Centre

The Geography Resource Centre has provided a wide variety of resources to support teachers of Geography for many years Unfortunately it is no longer viable to provide this service and the GRC will be closing later in the year. The Maps in Schools Programme will remain but be run through the Head Office of the Society. We are currently selling off existing stock at very special prices. These are advertised through the NZBoGT e-list. If you do not receive this, it may be because your school is not currently financial. NZGS members receive a 20% discount.

Maps for Schools Scheme -  Order Form

LINZ has replaced the 260 Map Series with the Topo50 Map Series. For a list of the maps in the new Topo50 Map Series (1:50,000) series and maps of offshore islands, refer to the LINZ website http://www.linz.govt.nz/topo50 Member price $8.00 (Non members $9.60). Please read the details on the back (page 2) of the form to ensure that your order is placed in the most cost-effective way.

Wall Map of New Zealand - Order Form

A new 1300X900mm size wall map of New Zealand produced by the New Zealand Cartographic Society is now available through the GRC. This costs $15 to members and $20 to non-members (plus the cost of postage). As this is a large size and NZ post have just reviewed their charges, postage is $6 within Auckland, 8 within the North Island and $13 to the South Island. You can order multiple copies of the map for the same postage price (max. 10).

Level 1 Internal Assessment Resource

PRINTING ERROR - The last three pages (13, 14 and 15) were omitted in the printed booklet sent to all schools as part of the Waste Management Kit.  The items omitted: Marking Schedule for Task 3 and end judgement.

Fortunately the CD included in the kit has complete files of all the material to be printed.  Please go to:

Folder 1 WM Resources; then Level 1 Assessment Resource and you will find Pages 13, 14 and 15 (Task 3a, 3b and Judgement Record Summary) to download and print.

 Currently we have resources available online in the following areas:

• Resources to Accompany GeoEd Articles from New Zealand Geographer
• Mapping
• Resource Kits - Additional Materials
• NCEA Concepts
• Links and information about resources available through outside organisations
  

 

Social Sciences On Line (SSOL) - For an update on this project click here.

Achievement standards and examination specifications

Education Gazette

Your Geography Advisors' contact details

LEARNZ virtual field trips - LEARNZ virtual field trips provide free, fully supported, interactive student experiences plus the largest collection of New Zealand, contemporary digital resources for education. These engaging, curriculum rich e-learning opportunities allow geography students to interact with inaccessible people and places throughout New Zealand and Antarctica. Complete your free registration now to access all of the LEARNZ virtual field trips. Field trips are online one month before the field trip and they then remain online free for teachers to access.

The 2010 Geography Field Trips are;
• Dairy Farming (Canterbury) 3-5 March
• Glacier Country (Franz Josef) 17-19 March
• Geo Hazards - Earthquakes (Wellington Fault) 5-7 May
• Coal Mining (Huntly) 4-6 August
• Dairy Farming (Waikato) 25-27 August


Global Focus Aotearoa - formerly the Global Education Centre and the Development Resource Centre
Go Global
Right Place Resources -resources for the social sciences, including tourism and coastal erosion.
Geostuff

Antarctica New Zealand

Auckland Geography Teachers' Association (AGTA)

http://www.ausgeography.com/ - This site provides some free resources as well as some available for purchase. There are free GIS resources designed for ArcView.

Geography Teachers' Association of Victoria
 
http://www.esri.com/arclessons -This site provides free lessons for GIS using ArcView.

Te Ara - Encylcopedia of New Zealand - this is an official e-government initiative The content is written especially for schools, and is copiously illustrated with photos, maps and video clips. It is an evolving project. At present there is very useful material on Natural Hazards and Disasters and a new section for release in mid September called "The Bush", covers the landscapes, land environments and fauna/flora of New Zealand and includes one section with articles on NZ landscapes, mountains, rivers, dunelands, lakes, soils, waterfalls, and glaciers .


Atlas of the Human Journey - This site tracks changes in land forms and the ice ages and how these effected human migration.

The New Zealand Film Archive ON DISK Secondary Schools Library http://www.filmarchive.org.nz/education/od_geography.html  is a further development of its ON TAPE library pilot. At present the Geography section covers the following topics: New Zealand Disasters, Earthquakes & Tsunami, Immigrants (2 disks), Tourism (2 disks) and Gold Mining. Online units and support materials are being prepared for release later in 2007, and a new Urban Studies programme on the Auckland region is in production. The programmes consist of purpose edited archive and contemporary New Zealand footage structured into multi-menued DVD.
The DVD titles are available online or by fax for a four week loan, completely free (no postage levy), and can be at your school in 48 hours.

Cinema Screenings are also available in Wellington at the Film Archive's Mediaplex (84 Taranaki St). Of particular interest is the screening programme Living on the Faultine - an Historical Geography of Wellington, a popular choice for visiting Year 12 Geography classes.

A better image of the earth at night than currently attached to the standard 90208 v3 on TKI is
http://www.darksky.org/mc/page.do?sitePageld=60100

This British website provides some useful games for teaching aspect of Geography Skills:
http://mapzone.ordnancessurvey.co.uk/mapzone/

And one from Rachel Tallon about ‘stuff’ from Tanzania:
http://www.africa.upenn.edu/Country_Specific/Tanzania.html