Regional centre of Geelong

Contextual information

Located at a large non-government boys’ school in metropolitan Melbourne, this year 9 class ‘has only been doing geography for about nine weeks’. The lesson topic − regional centres: the case of Geelong − was triggered by the premiership win of the Australian Football League team Geelong in 2007. The teacher used the premiership win as a trigger to look at the geography of sport. In this lesson, she concentrates on the Victorian city of Geelong as a significant regional centre. Having compiled a data broadsheet about Geelong, she used it to teach skills and to raise awareness of the various roles that Geelong plays as a regional centre. The broadsheet was compiled from information from the Geelong Chamber of Commerce, atlases, the internet, sports information, Bureau of Meteorology, newspapers and the ABS. The teacher actually visited Geelong in order to collect this information.

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1. Lesson Summary: Key lesson events (pdf)

2. Teacher pre-lesson interview segment

3. Video - GEOG01-MIX-TC

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5. Sample 1 - Student Voice

6. Curriculum material -Broadsheet (pdf)