We offer Professional Development sessions tailored to your needs around the themes of Sustainable Agriculture and Natural Resource Management.
If you would like more details, please contact us landlearn.program@dpi.vic.gov.au

Learning in the Garden
Supporting teachers with the integration of edible gardens and vegie patches into the classroom curriculum. Hands on activities to help students learn about food and fibre production.

Details: Thursday 7th August, Department of Primary Industries, 574 Main Street, Bairnsdale.
Tuesday 21st October, Tyrrell College, Sutcliffe Street, Sea Lake.

Biodiversity Up Close
Designed for teachers and Landcare/Community Group members to support the integration of Biodiversity and Sustainable Land Management themes into schools curriculum. Includes how to undertake simple biodiversity audits of school grounds.

Details: Wednesday 10th September, Port Phillip EcoCentre, St Kilda Botanical Gardens, St Kilda.

Creating Sustainable Futures
Introducing participants to OBLIQUE inspirations®, designed to enable creative self-inquiry and development of a deeper understanding of sustainability in relationship to self, others, and the world.

Details: Thursday 7th August, Department of Primary Industries, 574 Main Street, Bairnsdale.
Tuesday 21st October, Tyrrell College, Sutcliffe Street, Sea Lake.

To find out more or to register for these workshops go to www.landlearn.net.au/teacher/pd_calendar.htm.

2008 Geography Teachers Association of Victoria Conference (10th - 12th August)
LandLearn will be presenting four sessions introducing fieldwork, teacher and learning resources:

• Assessing human impact on the environment (workshop) - introducing curriculum linked tools supporting students to describe human and physical characteristics of an area, collect and record data obtained through field surveys and develop recommendations for protecting the environment.
• Murray Darling Basin case study in the Shepparton Irrigation Region (workshop) - introducing LandLearn's fieldtrip that investigates change over time and the impact of natural and human processes on water use and management in the region.
• LandLearning in Geography (workshop) - introducing simple and interactive VELS-linked activities which support teaching of sustainability topics in the geography classroom at Levels 3 - 6.
• Keep It Clean - a journey through the upper Yea catchment (fieldtrip) - this fieldtrip follows the Yea River from Toolangi State Forest to the Goulburn River investigating the diverse land uses in the catchment, their impacts on the river and its water quality, and the monitoring and management strategies in place.

For program information or to register go to www.gtav.asn.au