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Geography Action Week
Geography Teacher Associations (GTAs) in Australia are volunteer organizations supporting teachers and their students. They are active in seeking to improve curricula, providing teacher development programs, writing resources for teachers and students, and seeking to promote the value of the science of Geography to the whole community.
The goals are tackled in a variety of ways. During the 1990s one such way was to focus the attention of teachers, students and their communities via the promotion of an annual Geography Action Week.
The following pages record the approaches during some of those weeks of activity across Australia.
An introduction to Geography Action Weeks
You will have noticed a lot of palaver about Portable Document Files (PDFs) on the page about GAW 1999. This seems odd in the 2020s when PDFs are commonplace. In the 1990s they were not common so it was usual for sites to explain to the viewer how to get a Reader like Adobe Acrobat to read such files. Also of note is the small size of these separate files. That was to accommodate the very slow speeds of the commonly available dial-up internet connections of those times. See the page current addition to the historic page, Configure Microsoft Outlook Express Correctly. (Historic Pages > PCs and Internet > Configure …). This show the dramatic change to internet speeds over the past 25 to 30 years.
These PDF files, or the equivalent web pages, can be accessed via the links on the Are You Ready? page.
Are You Ready?
While all of the chapter previews are linked from the GAW99 Are You Ready? page they can be separately called from the following links.
