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January 2021
Welcome to OAGEE’s inaugural, 2021 Newsletter!

We are thrilled to be launching a regular newsletter meant to keep OAGEE members up to date on all things GEO!!

As you know, OAGEE has undergone some significant organizational changes and I wish to thank all those involved with getting this newsletter underway! We have a tremendously dedicated council of teachers on OAGEE and are working hard to support you in Ontario’s classrooms.

A reminder to visit www.oagee.org for regular updates as well.  Try out our new discussion area under COMMUNITY, https://oagee.org/en/community/ .  A great chance to start conversations with other teachers and share ideas, resources etc.

Wishing you all a better 2021 and best of luck as you navigate this strange year in your “classrooms”.

Take care, 

Anne Mansfield, OAGEE President
oageepresident@gmail.com

Features 

Reports and resources from OAGEE Project Teams including:
  • OUTREACH
  • COMMUNICATIONS
  • CONFERENCES
  • CURRICULUM
  • THE MONOGRAPH


 
OUTREACH
Hello geographers! Here is hoping you all have a great start to 2021! As part of the new OAGEE leadership model, I am heading the Outreach group. Our goal is to create relationships with organizations like universities, charities, government departments and private corporations who have a stake in anything geography related. By doing so, we hope to have more support for teachers in the form of lessons/activities, strengthen education for pre-service teachers, and get our high school students to see the value in geography in their post-secondary endeavours. If you have any ideas, please let me know!
“You’re not sitting in traffic. You are traffic”.
Brian Beard, OAGEE Outreach Project Leader
oageeoutreach@gmail.com
COMMUNICATIONS
Greetings from oagee.org! Our new website is your one stop shop for conferences, teaching resources, memberships, the Monograph, our geoblog, the members discussion board and much more. Make visiting OAGEE a regular practice as we are constantly updating and expanding our resources in all course areas. Do you have a suggestion or idea for the website? Let us know by contacting
Dave Scott, OAGEE Communications Project Leader
oageecommunications@gmail.com 
CONFERENCES
Greetings fellow geographers. The question of face-to-face 2021 conferences remains a ball in the air. There are a number of possibilities under consideration, but there are still too many questions to assure a face to face Spring conference. We can continue to share new materials and ideas. It is never too early to start thinking about potential presentations. We have all been developing new, remote teaching materials and the Fall conference is an excellent place to share them.
Paul Hackl, OAGEE Conferences Project Leader
oageeconferences@gmail.com
CURRICULUM
Teaching online can be challenging. When we can’t see our students’ faces and sometimes their discussions are limited or only pop-ups in the chat, how can we be sure that our students are engaged? A few tried and true strategies from our brick and mortar classrooms might be applied to our online environments with a bit of planning and the use of Google Jamboard.

Ways with Google Jamboard – More than Just Stickies!
Jamboards can be excellent tools to engage our classes in real-time activities such as co-constructing the learning. Ask students to put their initials onto their contributions to track for learning skills assessment. Worried about your student prompt moving around? Create an image (I use paint) and import it as a background.

If you have a bit more time to invest, you can create your tags for students to move around either as a group or individually. In this climate change Jamboard that went along with other activities in my lesson, I created a pre-reading activity to introduce students to the vocabulary that they would encounter in my lesson. In the previous activity, I engaged students’ previous learning about geographic regions and their curiosity about opinions on climate change in this sorting activity. You can also have students move impacts that are attached to specific geographic regions around as is shown in this example. How do you do this? Again, I make each tag a specific image using Paint (I have also heard of people using Google Draw) and then import them as images to my Jam. See my video for step my step instructions.

Other literacy activities can also be embedded into your Jamboards to practice the skill of summarizing or finding the main point in an article. In this task students made their $1.30 summary where each word is worth 10 cents. Another suggestion is using the Here’s what! So What? Now what? reading strategy. In this task we analyzed an interactive map on Dive Against Debris about cleaning up ocean trash.

An entire class can be engaged in a pre-lesson activity by applying a simple anticipation guide strategy of a value line. In this task I asked students about their sustainable and unsustainable behaviours. Each student moved their piece one step up if they did that behaviour (simple clipart imported and duplicated for each student). 
Joanna Thompson-Anselm, OAGEE Curriculum Project Leader
oageecurriculum@gmail.com@gmail.com
THE MONOGRAPH
Got to www.oagee.org to check out the latest issue of The Monograph. 
The Monograph is the journal of the Ontario Association for Geographic and Environmental Education. It strives to provide materials useful to intermediate and secondary school teachers of Geography and its cognate disciplines. 

We encourage teachers, partners, and stakeholders to submit an article, review or lesson plan to the Monograph, please visit https://oagee.org/en/monograph/

Gary Birchall, Editor of The Monograph
gbirch@cogeco.ca
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