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Geography Year 10: Environmental Change and Forest Management

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** HIGHLY COMMENDED – 2022 Australian Geography Teachers Association Awards ** DIGITAL/ONLINE RESOURCE AGTA Awards Review: ForestLearning and GTAV’s Year 10, Envrionmental Change and Forest Management unit is a commendable resource in that it closely aligns with the Australian Curriculum for Year 10 Geography with free resources and a supported approach to embedding virtual reality and interactive resources into the classroom. The high number of positive teacher feedback comments reflect the discerning quality of this resource. Dr Susan Caldis Chairperson of AGTA Board

YEAR 10 EDUCATORS TOOLKIT – GEOGRAPHY

Download the various components of the toolkit for your year 10 Geography classroom including:

RESOURCE BACKGROUND:

Forests are of enormous importance to all species on earth. They provide shelter, food, and other resources. They help to clean our water and protect our soils. They are the guardians of the climate and are economically important. They provide us with inspiration and enjoyment. We need forests.

ForestLearning has developed this unit in conjunction with the Geography Teachers Association of Victoria (GTAV) to assist
geography teachers to explore Australian forests using innovative spatial and virtual reality technologies including ForestVR^TM (forestlearning.edu.au/forestvr).

Although not intended as a replacement for actual onground fieldwork, ForestVR virtual excursions can offer unique and exciting immersive learning experiences for students and can be a particularly powerful online learning tool to “…enhance a learner’s knowledge of spatial concepts” (Southgate, 2020).

ForestLearning’s ForestVR Toolkit for Schools provides 360⁰ video experiences and 360⁰ photo tours of some of the major productive forest types of Australia. It also explores timber manufacturing processes as well as the final uses of renewable forest products in buildings, flooring and everyday items like paper and cardboard. The accessibility of 360⁰ cameras and 360⁰ images opens many new opportunities in this field, particularly for investigating forest environments and management.

DOWNLOAD YOUR FORESTVR^TM APP HERE – https://forestlearning.edu.au/forestvr

LESSON SEQUENCE

Lesson 1
INVESTIGATION OF THE LOCATION, CLASSIFICATION AND MANAGEMENT OF FORESTS IN AUSTRALIA
ACTIVITIES:
1 Is it a Forest? Gameshow
2 Forests of Australia
3 Digital Maps

Lesson 2
AUSTRALIA’S TIMBER PLANTATIONS
ACTIVITIES:
1 Australian Plantations at a glance
2 Softwood pine plantations
3 Statements about forestry and their implications for sustainability
4 Forest plantation location and management

Lesson 3
USING DATA AND TECHNOLOGY TO MANAGE FORESTS
ACTIVITIES:
1 Using Geographical Information Systems in sustainable forestry
2 Recent innovations for forestry inventory and data capture
3 Data interpretation

Lesson 4
 FOREST COVER CHANGE
ACTIVITIES:
1 Introductory activity – Forest cover change
2 Main activity – Forest cover change
3 Final activity – Wildlife corridors

Lesson 5
HOW DOES AUSTRALIA’S FORESTRY PRACTICE COMPARE WITH BRAZIL?
ACTIVITIES:
1 Starter activity – Using Venn diagrams for analysis
2 Main activity – Analysing the social, environmental, and economic impacts of various forest management practices
3 Summary activity – Sustainable forest practices reflection

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