Welcome to the GEM - Geography Education Matters! A useful resource for the Singapore Geography Teacher Community!
[021025]: Race to Sustainability! 2025
Looking for post-examination activities? Gardens by the Bay's flagship programme, Race to Sustainability!, is back for the 9th edition 🤩.
Happening on the 21 & 23 October, join local sustainability champion, Kong Man Jing (better known as Biogirl MJ), on an exclusive SG60 Comic Trail as well as a series of workshops and talks.
Registration closes on 10 October. Sign up at this link.
For more information, kindly email education@gardensbythebay.com.sg.
[030925]: Slay Your SLS: Differentiated Pathways to AI-enabled Teaching
Following the successful run of STLT Professional Learning Session 1 this year, an upcoming session has been scheduled on 10 October 2025, with the aim to deepen geography teachers’ competence to harness AI-enhanced tools more effectively.
Adopting a differentiated approach, participants who are new to the AI-enabled features in SLS will engage in guided, hands-on activities to build confidence in navigating and applying these tools. Those with greater familiarity will collaborate in peer-sharing circles to exchange practices and experiment with more advanced features. The session will also feature a practitioner sharing by teachers from CHIJ Secondary School, who will illustrate how they leveraged SALIS in the teaching of Tourism—deepening student engagement with case studies and supporting the development of writing skills for level descriptor questions. By the end of the session, participants will gain practical strategies for integrating AI functions in SLS to enrich classroom learning experiences and strengthen student outcomes.
Objectives: Participants will
Build teachers’ confidence in using AI-enhanced tools in SLS
Foster peer learning and experimentation
Showcase practical applications and pedagogical considerations in tech-enabled lessons
Who is this for?
For all secondary and Pre-university teachers
Session Details:
Date: 10 October 2025 (Friday)
Time: 2.30-5.30 pm
Venue: Training Room 11, Blk B Level 3, AST
*Please bring along your public service card and your fully charged personal learning device/laptop.
[190625]: New Geography Factsheets have been uploaded!
497. Enigmatic India: Future Superpower?
498. Stuck in Traffic: Tackling New York’s Urban Transport Crisis
499. The 2024 Atlantic Hurricane Season: A Signal of Climate Change?
500. Investigating Local Renewable Energy Projects – Part 1: Solar
501. Privatisation and Water Management: Success Story or Sorry Tale?
502. Is Building on the Green Belt the Solution to England’s Housing Crisis?
To access past Geography Factsheets, visit this page!
[090525] Supporting Geography Students with Diverse Needs
Want to make your Geography lessons more inclusive and accessible, and cater to the diverse needs of your students?
Try creating lesson ideas and resources with the Inclusive Lesson Assistant (ILA) for Geography!
Log in with your schools.gov.sg or moe.edu.sg email address via https://go.gov.sg/inclusivegeog
The following assessment support materials have been published on GYWiki:
Please click on the above links to access the materials.
Tourism Challenge EDM.pdf[240725]: HDB guided LIVINGSPACE tours
HDB will be running guided LIVINGSPACE tours on 16 August 2025 (Saturday)!
The gallery tour is in support of the URA Draft Master Plan 2025 exhibition which will rove to Toa Payoh this August. When participants go for the tour, they can also take the opportunity to check out the DMP exhibition to find out more about the exciting, upcoming plans for Singapore!
Please access the image below to sign up/for more information.
How can students appreciate the complexities of land use planning to achieve sustainable urban development in Singapore?
Curated in line with the syllabus content of Geography in Everyday Life and Singapore clusters, this 3-hour workshop facilitated by City Sprouts can bring these abstract concepts to life!
Find out more about the programme details here, in particular slides 22-33.
The following assessment support materials have been published on GYWiki:
Please click on the above links to access the materials.
Here are some suggested lesson plans for the newly launched Climate Change Card Game for Upper Sec Geography (G2 and G3).
Click on the links below for the suggested Upper Secondary Geography G2 and G3 lesson plans that use 'Getting to 0' card game for students to learn more about climate change responses.
All secondary schools in Singapore will receive 10 sets of this card game by end April 2025.
Back by popular demand, this two-day workshop is conducted by St John’s Island National Marine Lab (SJINML) aimed at Secondary School Geography and Biology educators.
If guided nature walks, intertidal surveys and coral specimen handling sound exciting to you, you are in for a treat!
More information can be found in our PD page in this GYWiki link.
Good news!
Due to overwhelming interest for the School-based Assessment Workshop for Upper Sec Geography on 25 Feb 2025, we have set up another class run on 21 July 2025.
More information can be found in our PD page in this GYWiki link.
The following two assessment support materials have been published on GYWiki.
Please click on the links to access the exemplars.
Exemplar 9 - G3 Express GIEL Tourism WA _Question Paper
Exemplar 9 - G3 Express GIEL and Tourism _Mark Scheme
The following two assessment support materials have been published on GYWiki.
Please click on the links to access the exemplars.
Exemplar 7 - G3 / Express Geography in Everyday Life and Tectonics
The following two assessment support materials have been published on GYWiki.
Please click on the links to access the exemplars.
A resource useful for the topic on Forests has been shared. This resource is a video from a NParks playlist that may also be suitable for use in your classroom.
Please access the lesson material and suggested use case shared on OPAL - GYWiki.
We invite you to share your lesson materials using this simple form.
The following two assessment support materials have been published on GYWiki.
Please click on the links to access the exemplars.
Resources useful for planning and conducting fieldwork for the Lower Secondary syllabus have been updated!
Links to register for various places to conduct fieldwork has been added.
Please access the LSG resources here.
[180124] Community Resource for LSG - Housing
A member of our Geography fraternity has shared some resources for use to spark curiosity and discussion about Housing. Thank you Firdaus! He has shared an op-ed article about void decks as well as 2 videos.
Please access the community resource here.
[130124] Updates to FAQ [Upper Sec Geo]
There have been updates to the FAQs for Upper Sec Geography on OPAL - GYWiki.
Please find the FAQs at this link.
[120124 Updates to TLG and TLS for LSG and USG
The updated versions of the Teaching and Learning Syllabuses and Teaching and Learning Guides for both Lower and Upper Secondary Geography have been updated and are available on the Geography Wiki page on OPAL.
[120124] Community Resource for LSG - Transport Systems
This resource, a resource kit from the LTA, has been shared and has been found suitable for use for Lower Secondary, Transport Systems. In addition, a lesson suggestion has also been offered to show the possibility of using this resource kit for your lessons.
Please access the community resource here and a teaching suggestion here.
[110124] Community Resource for USG - Singapore Cluster
This resource, a storymap, has been shared and has been found suitable for use for Upper Secondary, Singapore Cluster. In addition, a lesson suggestion has also been offered to show the possibility of using this storymap for your lessons.
Please access the community resource here.
An exemplar for fieldwork on the needs of elderly has been published on GYWiki.
Please access the document here!
The following assessment support materials have been published on GYWiki:
Development, Economy and Environment
Sustainable Future and Climate Change
Please access these documents here.
To facilitate the sharing and pooling together of schools' Mid-Year Weighted Assessments and J1 Promotional Exam papers. This is so as to better support one another in the development of learning resources/materials for our respective students. Click here!
The most updated versions of the TLS and TLG have been uploaded onto GYWIKI.
Please access these documents here.
The following assessment support materials have been published on GYWiki.
Please click on the following links to access the materials.
Structured Question 1 - Fieldwork - Use of Reusable Cups
This half-day workshop, facilitated by CPDD, prepares teachers for the implementation of the 2023 H1/H2 Geography Syllabuses. Participants will learn to: (i) develop question papers according to the scheme of assessment and prescribed syllabus content; (ii) craft mark schemes that indicate the marking approach, range of acceptable answers and mark allocation; and (iii) apply mark schemes to assess students’ answers.
Course date: 5th March 2024
Registration closing date: 20 Feb 2024
Sign up on OPAL using this link.
Resources useful for Topics - Environment and Resources, Cities in a Sustainable Future for H1 and H2 Geography have been shared. This NParks playlist may also be suitable for other levels of study and other clusters.
Please access the resources here.
[110124] New Content MLUs on OPAL
2 new content MLUs, "How do human activities accelerate or decelerate climate change through feedback processes?' and "What is the influence of human activities on the global carbon cycle?' have been published in OPAL!
Access via OPAL or H2 Scope and Sequence at https://go.gov.sg/preugeog!