Check out the new resources to promote Geography in your school.
Click on the Promoting Geography button above.

Survey re Post-Secondary Education

Today we would like to invite you to take part in a survey being conducted on behalf of a leading Ontario post-secondary education institution.  This survey looks at what information and resources secondary school teachers in the Greater Toronto Region (Toronto, Halton, Peel, York and Durham) would like to have about post-secondary education options for their students.  Your input is very important, so please make your voice heard.  In appreciation for completing this survey, you will receive a $25 Chapters gift certificate, along with a synopsis of the research findings, which may prove very useful to you.  Please click on this link to participate in this brief online survey: 
 http://production5.voxco.com/IntWeb.dll?IMODE=2&PROJECT=LOGIT.NSW662&urlimport=1

Fall 2008 OAGEE Conference

First Call for Papers - Due May 30, 2008

(see details under the Conferences tab for the Fall Conference)

Membership: Renew your 2008 membership right here and now! 

OAGEE now has online membership available at http://www.beckerassociates.ca/oagee/oagee1.php

For a Membership application to mail or FAX in, click here.

Announcing the launch of the Historical Atlas of Canada Online Learning Project at     http://www.historicalatlas.ca

This website is based on the award-winning Historical Atlas of Canada. The Atlas was a three-volume collaborative research and publishing project which used maps, text and graphics to explore themes in the history of Canada. The Online Learning Project brings selected content from the original atlas into today´s Web culture, making it available to a much wider audience. This website has been developed at the Cartography Office in the Department of Geography at the University of Toronto. It is free to all web users.

Best of the Monograph 2

The updated Best of the Monograph 2 is now available.  This new resource is searchable, is cataglogued by course, and contains the files from the original Best of the Monograph, in addition to the full digital versions of the Monographs from 1997 to 2005.  Download an Order Form for more information. 

Best of Monograph 2 Order Form

Great Canadian Geography Challenge  

Find out more informaton about this annual challenge at:  http://www.geochallenge.ca

New Resource from StatsCanada: :

"A new resource from Stats-Canada is available that links StatCan data with the Grade 11 Travel and Tourism (CGG3O) course expectations. Download the MS Word Grade 11 CGG3O Travel and Tourism document.  This file has live links directly to the StatCan data set."

New Resources from StatsCanada:

Two new resources from Stats-Canada are available that link StatCan data with the Grade 9 Canadian Geography and the Canadian and World Issues course expectations. Download the MS Word Grade 9 document and the MS Word Grade 12 document. They have live links directly to the StatCan data set.

Also, Geography Lessons which make use of Stats Canada resources. We will be adding exemplary lessons created by Queen's University Faculty of Education teacher candidates based on E-STAT and other Stats Canada web resources at http://www.statcan.ca to this collection.

Lessons from Stats Canada

Ministry of Education - Revised Curriculum

The revised Canadian and the World Curriculum is now up on the Ministry website. Please refer to the following link.
http://www.edu.gov.on.ca/eng/new/new.html

Think Literacy: Cross-Curricular Approaches

Geography, Grades 7-9

In Summer 2003, Think Literacy: Cross-Curricular Approaches, Grades 7 –12 was developed by a writing team, commissioned by the Expert Panel on Students at Risk (Literacy), to support teachers as they use reading, writing and oral communication approaches in their classrooms.

In Summer 2004, teams of subject experts wrote additional subject-specific examples to help teachers combine the teaching of reading, writing and oral communication skills with their subject content.

Please find out more about these useful resources for your Geography classrooms.

Think Literacy - Geography

Grade 11 - Travel and Tourism
Grade 12 - Canadian and World Issues
Grade 12 - Environmental Resource Management

In Summer 2005, writing teams of subject experts wrote additional subject-specific examples to help teachers combine the teaching of reading, writing and oral communications skills within several senior geography courses.   Think Literacy: Cross-Curricular Approaches, Grades 11 –12 was developed by a writing team, commissioned by the Expert Panel on Students at Risk (Literacy), to support teachers as they use reading, writing and oral communication approaches in their classrooms.

Please find out more about these useful resources for your Geography classrooms.

Posters: The 2003-2004 and 2004-2005 winning posters are live on the Parks Canada website!
              Check them out at:  http://www.pc.gc.ca/ontarioposters

Item: Check out the "Cool job of the month"

 Updated May 2, 2008