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Inspiring the Next Young Environmental Leader - Kids Teaching Kids

Inspiring the Next Young Environmental Leader - Kids Teaching Kids - Addressing Our Environmental Crisis

The first batch of Arron and Richard Wood's "Inspiring the Next Young Environmental Leader - Kids Teaching Kids - Addressing Our Environmental Crisis" book has arrived!

“Arron and Richard Wood’s successful method of engaging youth on the big environmental challenges facing our planet is truly inspiring. They bring renewed hope for encouraging activism by future generations. This book is about the evolution of Kids Teaching Kids and its relevance as an effective formula for educating young people and motivating them to take action in their own lives both in and out of the classroom. Arron and Richard developed this highly effective model for Australian schools. The UN Works Programme is collaborating with them to integrate this approach into educational outreach to students around the world.”

Carmel Mulvany – Chief, UN Works Programme

To get more tips on seeking sponsorship, or how to implement the Kids Teaching Kids methodology in your own school or community and see how business, industry and the wider public can build communities using the environment as a tool with an insight into the unique father/son relationship shared by Arron and Richard order your copy by using the attached order form or emailing detailing your contact details and how many copies you'd like to order.

At 152 pages this full colour book touches on past conference programs, inspiring students and teachers who have been involved in the river health conference initiative and even details how to run your own environmental event, complete with example budgets, media management and how to avoid event planning pitfalls. Filled with case studies and interesting anecdotes this is a book not to be missed. The book includes a half hour DVD depicting Kids Teaching Kids in action. The book will retail for $34.95, but discount orders are now available for $25.00 plus postage for a single copy. There will be a limited print run so please get in early if you intend to purchase a copy.

The book proceeds will support Firestarter to continue running Kids Teaching Kids programs across Australia. There are further discounts available for bulk orders of 10 or more books so send us an email and we'll provide you with a quote. Email with your contact details and how many copies you'd like.

This project is proudly supported by Spike Design, Finsbury Printing and Pilot Be Green.

To download a copy of the order form for this book, click the following link - Order Form

2007 AGTA Geography Posters - excellent cartoons with a Geographical flavour

The Australian Geography Teachers' Association, in support of its ongoing commitment to the promotion of Geography in Australian schools, has produced a series of five posters featuring cartoons by Peter Nicholson, The Australian newspapers cartoonist. The high quality, A2 sized laminated posters feature cartoons dealing with important Geographical issues: climate change, salinity, water management, human rights and Australia's population debate. Classroom use of the posters will be facilitated by a series of activity-based worksheets published in the GTAQ journal.

The posters cost $25 plus $10 postage and handling. To download an order form, click here.

General Geography Sites

This site has been created by National Geographic in America and provides a number of links to Geography Quizes, games, blog sites, resources for teachers and information for students.

An amazing site that shows daily, weekly, monthly and yearly world information data. An amazing tool that is great for any geography unit.

This site is similar to the world clock above but displays a number indicators under headings such as World Population, Government and Economics, Education, Environment, Food, Water, Energy and Health. Great for a number of units in both junior and senior Geography.

This site is designed for teachers in the UK but provides a wealth of teaching resources for Geography teachers all over the world. The site is divided into two sections, contributions and subscriptions. You can subscribe for up-dates and make your own resource contributions to the site. Pretty fantastic for UK teachers and something that we could probably look at developing in Australia!

This website has been developed by Noel Jenkins, a UK Geography teacher who also created Juicy Geography and Digital Geography. This is basically his lessons, activities and units for Year 7-11 Geography. Even though it is designed for the UK, there are great lesson ideas, as well as how to successfully incorporate technology such as wiki's, blogs and interactive mapping sites into your lessons.

This is a site developed in the UK to provide internet links on a number of Geography topics. By clicking on links such as 'Human Geography', 'Physical Geography' or 'Global Environments', you are taken to a page full of internet sites on the topic. These are then rated according to relevance to the UK course.

Enhance TV is a non-profit organisation developed by Screenrights to help Australian educators using TV in the classroom. To access program times and overviews on Geography programs, simply go to the website. You can also receive daily highlights (through email) by selecting the RSS Feed - https://www.enhancetv.com.au/rss/rss.php , or specific Geography programs by selecting https://www.enhancetv.com.au/areas/rss/rss_geo.php

Inspiring the Next Young Environmental Leader - Kids Teaching Kids - Addressing Our Environmental Crisis

The first batch of Arron and Richard Wood's "Inspiring the Next Young Environmental Leader - Kids Teaching Kids - Addressing Our Environmental Crisis" book has arrived!

To download a copy of the order form for this book, click the following link - Order Form

2007 AGTA Geography Posters - excellent cartoons with a Geographical flavour

The posters cost $25 plus $10 postage and handling. To download an order form, click here.

2006 Geography Promotional Posters

These posters were given out free to all attendees at the GTAQ 06 Conference.

There are still copies available for free with a cost of $10 postage and handling.

To download an order form, click here .

There are a number of Geography Resources available on-line. This list will be continually up-dated.

A denotes internet resources that have been added in the last month.

General Geography Sites

National Geographic - My Wonderful World - http://www.mywonderfulworld.org/

World Clock - http://www.poodwaddle.com/worldclock.swf

Woldometers - http://www.worldometers.info/

GeoInteractive Geography - http://www.geointeractive.co.uk/

Noel Jenkins@Court Fields - http://noeljenkins.wordpress.com

The Internet Geography - http://www.internetgeographer.co.uk/

Enhance TV - http://www.enhancetv.com.au

For more Geography sites, select 'Read More'.

Geography Careers Flyers

Do you need to promote Geography at your next subject selection night? Purchase bundles of 30 or 100 A4 Geography Careers Flyers.

To download an order form, click here.