CONFERENCE DAYMonday 29.11.2021 > Online

PROGRAM

9:00AM - WELCOME

Rob Gell AM

9:20AM KEYNOTE

Dr Felicity McCormack

Monash University

10:00-10:50AM - THE 2022-2026 VCE

GEOGRAPHY STUDY DESIGN

Leonie Brown

Curriculum Manager - Geography, VCAA

11:10-11:50AM - SESSION 1

1A: Unit 1: Hazards and Disasters

1B: Unit 3: AoS 1: Land Cover Change

12:00-12:40PM - SESSION 2

2A: Unit 2: Tourism Issues and Challenges

2B: Unit 4: Human Population Trends and Issues

1:30-2:10PM - SESSION 3

3A: Designing (not so) hazardous fieldwork!

3B: Remote Sensing: how to integrate and

invigorate with l ive and relevant data

3C: Unit 3: AoS 2: Land Use Change

2:20-3:00PM - SESSION 4

4A: Q & A Panel Session

4B: New to VCE

4C: Indigenous Geographies

FIELDWORK DAYTuesday 30.11.2021 > F2F

9:00AM-12:00PM - PRACTICAL

Use of geospatial technologies in fieldwork

Location: Kirrip Park, South Melbourne

1:30-3:30PM - FIELDWORK SESSIONS

FW1: Plastic Pollution in our Waterways

Location: Port Phil l ip EcoCentre, St Kilda

FW2: Examining nature-based tourism

Location: The Tan, Royal Botanic Gardens

FW3: Fishermans Bend Fieldwork

Location: Kirrip Park, South Melbourne

Registered participants wil l receive the session

timetable and details closer to the conference

date. For online sessions, notes and video

recordings wil l be available after the

Conference.

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Rob Gell AM

PROGRAMCONFERENCE DAYMonday 29.11.2021 > Online

SESSION 1

1A: Unit 1: Hazards and Disasters

Claudia Graham, Marcellin College

Changes to the new VCE Geography Study

Design wil l be discussed, as well as ideas for

teaching, engaging students with relevant case

studies, and suggestions for planning and

assessment.

1B: Unit 3: Area oS 1: Land Cover Change

Susy Puszka, Mac.Robertson Girls' High

School

Catherine Holmes, Xavier College

This session wil l provide an overview of land

cover change, and the two topics within this area

of study, deforestation and melting glaciers and

ice sheets. It wil l cover some resources available

to teachers, class activities that can be used,

and some suggestions on setting assessment

tasks.

SESSION 2

2A: Unit 2: Tourism Issues and Challenges

Danielle O'Leary, GTAV

Paul Cross, Monash University

The session wil l discuss a range of teaching

strategies designed to introduce the concept of

tourism and engaging students using various case

studies. The Tourism Crisis in Bali , Media and

Tourism - marketing the impossible, and virtual

fieldwork opportunities using timelapse

photography and virtual reality wil l be covered.

2B: Unit 4: Human Population Trends and

Issues

Trish Douglas, Eltham College

This session wil l provide an overview of the unit,

including changes to the new VCE Geography

Study Design and relevant resources to use.

Rob Gell AM is a passionate

geographer and avid supporter

of the GTAV. He is a coastal

geomorphologist, specialising in

the environmental processes that continually shape our coastlines. He completed

his Science Degree at The University of

Melbourne in the early seventies and then went

on to teach Environmental Science and Physical

Geography at Melbourne State College and

The University of Melbourne. In his professional

l ife today Rob works as an environmental and

communications consultant.

KEYNOTE - Recent Antarctic changes

Dr Felicity McCormack, Monash University

Research Fellow, School of Earth Atmosphere

and Environment in a discussion on research

being done relating to Antarctica’s future

contribution to sea level rise. Links are also

referenced to tourism practices that enable

this wonderful environment to be explored and

cherished.

THE 2022-2026 VCE GEOGRAPHY STUDY

DESIGN

Leonie Brown, Curriculum Manager -

Geography, VCAA

An outline of the 2022-2026 VCE Geography

Study Design. Time wil l be allowed for

questions.

Please note, this session wil l NOT be recorded

Antarctica provides an engaging

case study for both Unit 2

Tourism: issues and challenges,

and Unit 3 Changing the land.

Join Dr Felicity McCormack,

PROGRAMCONFERENCE DAYMonday 29.11.2021 > Online

SESSION 4

4A: Q & A Panel Session

VCE Geography Expert Panel

This session wil l provide an opportunity to ask

questions, clarify points of the new Study

Design, and share ideas for 2022 and beyond.

4B: New to VCE

Trish Douglas, Eltham College

Lynne Griffiths, Ivanhoe Grammar School

(Retd)

Specifically designed for teachers new to

teaching VCE Geography. This session wil l cover

key concepts, tips and ways of approaching VCE

Geography teaching. It wil l provide

opportunities for attendees to ask questions and

build l inks with other teachers in a similar

situation.

4C: Indigenous Geographies: examining

the role of traditional owners in land-use

change and conflict

Theo Hartman, Coburg High School

Surprisingly there is no mention of aboriginality

or indigeneity in the study design, despite

traditional owners being integral to the

sustainabil ity and integrity of environmental

systems globally. This session wil l be a global

overview of the role that indigenous groups play

around the world in terms of land management

and land use practices, lore & wisdom, and

conflict & disasters. Specific cases from each

continent wil l cover legal issues, resistance, use

and occupancy mapping and indigenous

knowledge as key sustainable environmental

outcomes. These cases are key to understanding

the whole picture in Units 1-4, but especially in

Unit 3 Changing the Land.

SESSION 3

3A: Designing (not so) hazardous

fieldwork!

Micah Wilkins, Camberwell Girls Grammar

School

Tom Clark, Camberwell Girls Grammar School

In this session, you'l l be introduced to a range of

ideas to help you create and design your Unit 1

fieldwork. It wil l cover how to select a fieldwork

location, pre-fieldwork activities, collecting and

sorting data (both primary and secondary),

compile and write the fieldwork report. Graphic

organisers wil l be used to step teachers and

students through the process. A range of

examples wil l be provided, including bushfires,

introduced species, as well as traffic hazards.

3B: Remote Sensing: how to integrate and

invigorate with live and relevant data

Theo Hartman, Coburg High School

Remote sensing is a new direction in the VCE

study design - but what qualifies as remote

sensing? We wil l cover essential satell ites and

instrumentation in orbit, aerial sensing, ground

truthing and UAV telemetry - all of which can be

integrated into your student case study and

fieldwork endeavours.

3C: Unit 3: AoS 2: Land Use Change

Catherine Holmes, Xavier College

This presentation wil l go through the changes to

the new VCE Geography Study Design for Unit 3

Area of Study 2: Land Use Change. It wil l help to

familiarise and strengthen your understanding of

these changes and include ideas relating to

classroom teaching, embedding concepts and

skil ls, facil itating fieldwork, application in

geospatial technologies, and assessment.

PROGRAMFIELDWORK DAYTuesday 30.11.2021 > F2F

FIELDWORK 3: Fishermans Bend

Fieldwork

Location: Kirrip Park, South Melbourne

Karoline Walters, Camberwell Girls

Grammar School

Fishermans Bend is an exciting urban

development project that offers much as a Unit

3 Geography fieldwork site. This session

focuses on the Montague Precinct, the first of

five precincts to undergo a specific

development plan and aligns with the newly

released fieldwork resource published by the

GTAV in partnership with the Department of

Jobs, Precincts and Regions. On this fieldwork,

take a walking tour discovering the key

features of Montague and trial a range of

primary data collection methods, including the

application of geospatial technology. Leave

with an understanding the Precinct and with a

starting point for planning your own Montague

fieldwork.

Please note: the Fieldwork Day is a face-to-

face event and as such we are required to

observe the Victorian Government COVIDSafe

settings.

All participants wil l be required to check-in at

the fieldwork location using the Service

Victoria app.

You wil l need to show evidence of being fully

vaccinated or carry evidence of a medical

exemption to participate. To make things

easier, get your COVID-19 Digital Certificate

and link it to the Service Victoria App.

PRACTICAL: Use of geospatial

technologies in fieldwork

Location: Kirrip Park, South Melbourne

RMIT University

Be introduced to and practice easy-to-

implement ways of integrating geospatial

technologies into fieldwork.

Applicable to Units 1-3.

FIELDWORK 1: Plastic Pollution in our

Waterways

Location: Port Phillip EcoCentre, St Kilda

Pete Linder, Canopy of Care

Neil Blake OAM

Plastic pollution in our waterways has significant

environmental, social and economic

consequences and as such provides a

contemporary and highly relevant case study for

Unit 1 Hazards and Disasters. This case study

also lends itself to accessible and affordable

fieldwork opportunities whether that be on

school grounds, local streets, nearby rivers or

the beaches surrounding Port Phil l ip Bay.

FIELDWORK 2: Examining nature-based

tourism

Location: The Tan, Royal Botanic Gardens

Theo Hartman, Coburg High School

Come visit the Tan and enjoy the serenity of the

cultivated nature-scape, but also to better

understand how natural assets are being

leveraged to foster growth in the tourism sector

and to build biodiversity and resil ience in cities.

The session wil l cover primary data fieldwork

best practices as well as discuss key secondary

resources such as the DELWP Biodiversity 2037

Strategy. The session wil l be complimented by a

presentation from a garden ranger as well as a

short tour on the Garden Explorer.