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[|**Australian Screen**] ** Suitable age range: ** Year 4-10
 * Online Resource **
 * Curriculum links: ** ELA 21: The student understands about Australia and Australians
 * Description: ** Australian Screen offers a large selection of resources for geography through the incorporation of provides teachers and students with the opportunity to view a collection of moving images. Many of the clips are supported with teachers’ notes which have been written by specialist curriculum writers and expert curators’ notes which can provide helpful background knowledge.

This resource was chosen in relation to my précis posting on “Active Learning Strategies Using Images in Geography” by Graham Yates and Stephanie Tully’s précis posting “Key Skills in Geography” by Bonner, C & Ralph, B

Australian Screen gives students the opportunity to view a wide range of images. As I discovered in reading Yates’s article Images can play a key role in students learning geography. This new millennium is recognised as becoming a visual society where students will obtain most of their knowledge and perceptions of the world from a visual image.

In reading Stephanie’s précis on “Key Skills in Geography” I noticed that through students viewing images they will be able to develop and practice the key skills that are required in assisting us to understand geography i.e being observant, gathering information, describing places, observing, recording and describing the weather and doing your own research.

Therefore I would highly recommend Australian Screen as a resource for geography. By viewing any of its many images students can develop the necessary skills needed for geography.

Lucy Munro

References Australian Screen. (2010). Retrieved 4th July 2010. Website: []

Bonnor, C. & Ralph, B. (1994). Key Skills in Geography. pp 1-17 (2nd ed.) Melbourne, Australia: Longman Cheshire Pty Ltd. Yates, G. (2000). Active Learning Strategies Using Images in Geography. Geographical Education, 13, 68-76.