Using the Geoscience Australia Data Portal in the classroom tutorial videos

Created 17/10/2025

Updated 17/10/2025

These videos provide tutorials on how to use the Geoscience Australia Data portal in the classroom. They include a guide for basic navigation, how to load 2D map data sets (elevation, surface geology and critical minerals) as well as accessing a 3D data model (earthquakes). Additionally, they demonstrate how to directly compare multiple data and how to share collated data through a shareable link. Videos included: -         Introduction to using the Geoscience Australia Data Portal (2:15) -         How to access elevation, surface geology and critical minerals data in the Geoscience Australia Data Portal (4:26) - How to view the global distribution of earthquakes using the Geoscience Australia Data Portal (2:51)

These videos are suitable for use by secondary students and adults.

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Title Using the Geoscience Australia Data Portal in the classroom tutorial videos
Language eng
Licence Not Specified
Landing Page https://data.gov.au/data/en/dataset/a244f302-ed5f-4609-8dcb-08c16cd6b6fd
Contact Point
Geoscience Australia Data
clientservices@ga.gov.au
Reference Period 07/05/2024
Geospatial Coverage
Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors
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Data Portal Geoscience Australia

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This dataset was originally found on Geoscience Australia "Using the Geoscience Australia Data Portal in the classroom tutorial videos". Please visit the source to access the original metadata of the dataset:
https://ecat.ga.gov.au/geonetwork/srv/eng/csw/dataset/using-the-geoscience-australia-data-portal-in-the-classroom-tutorial-videos