Geographical Inquiry Made Simple

Course summary

This course will help you plan and deliver a geographical inquiry unit. In this Course, you will be given access to an exceptional geographical inquiry unit created by our partners, MobileMuster, and environmental education experts, Field of Mars Environmental Education Center. This Course contains a range of methods to successfully apply geographical inquiry that you can adopt and adapt to your unique school setting.

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You will learn:

• How to plan a geographical inquiry unit.
• How to enrich your inquiry through the use of technology.
• How to incorporate sustainability into your inquiry.
• How to extend student learning through student-led action.
• How to engage students in real world geographical learning through an existing inquiry unit called Mobile Connections.

Course time:

This course will take you 2 hours to complete. Enjoy it in one session or spread it out over a few weeks. You will have ongoing access via your personal dashboard.

Accreditation:

This course is mapped to the Professional Standards for Teachers. It is accredited for teacher professional development hours:

Proficient Teacher

• 2.1 Apply knowledge of the content and teaching strategies of the teaching area to develop engaging teaching activities.
• 2.2 Organise content into coherent, well-sequenced learning and teaching programs.
• 2.6 Use effective teaching strategies to integrate ICT into learning and teaching programs to make selected content relevant and meaningful.
• 3.2 Plan and implement well-structured learning and teaching programs or lesson sequences that engage students and promote learning.

This course is accredited by TQI for 2 hours of professional development for teachers in the ACT for 2025.

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Course Content

Getting Started

01.

Introduction

02.

What is geographical inquiry?

03.

Geographical inquiry in the curriculum

04.

Set some learning goals

How To Plan A Geography Inquiry Unit

05.

Where to begin?

06.

Structuring the inquiry process

07.

The inquiry process in the Mobile Connections Curriculum Guide

08.

Break down an example

09.

What's next?

How To Incorporate Technology

10.

Tuning in to technology

11.

Technology and mobile connections

12.

Technology and Mobile Connections: geospatial technologies

13.

Exploring geospatial technologies

How To Incorporate Sustainability

14.

Incorporating sustainability

15.

Sustainability in the Mobile Connections Curriculum Guide

16.

Applying sustainability

17.

Tips for incorporating sustainability

How To Incorporate Social Action

18.

Incorporating student action

19.

Student action and the Mobile Connections Curriculum Guide

20.

Mobile Connections SWOT analysis

21.

Tips for making the inquiry process meaningful

22.

Reflection

Your Teaching

23.

Cool lesson plans

Reflection

24.

Taxonomy of learning

25.

Suggestions for collaboration

26.

Congratulations

Course instructors

Mark Drummond from Cool Australia is your course teacher. He has worked in the education sector for over 11 years as a classroom teacher, Leader of Pedagogy within an Ed-Tech start-up and as an educational consultant. Mark is an absolute science nerd and loves talking about dinosaurs as much as he loves talking about education (which is a lot)!

Frequently asked questions

Partners

This course has been creating in partnership with MobileMuster and Field of Mars Environmental Education Center.