Year 10: Tuesday 29/3 Final Prep for Tomorrow

Fingers crossed you did your work yesterday and have half you assessment ready to roll...

Today you need to take care of the second half:

1. Two Responses to Urban Sprawl and/or Urban Consolidation

2. Evaluate the effectiveness of one response: Choose either sprawl of consolidation and have your say whether you think it is effective or not.

Make sure you use the structure from yesterday for each paragraph:

1. Topic Sentence
2. Explain topic sentence.
3. Examples/Statistics
4. Explain relevance of Examples/Stats
5. What effect does this have on Sydney?

Year 10 Monday 28/3: 9.2 Population Growth in Sydney

Using section 9.2 describe the issue of population growth in Sydney in a 5+ sentence paragraph. Use the following format.

1. Topic Sentence
2. Explain topic sentence.
3. Examples/Statistics
4. Explain relevance of Examples/Stats
5. What effect does this have on Sydney?

Then, in a paragraph for each, explain the two responses to population growth in Sydney using the paragraph format above.

Year 10: Urban Sprawl or Consolidation: Green Square

Have a look at this development: http://www.cityofsydney.nsw.gov.au/development/urbanrenewalprojects/greensquare/

What is this an example of?

What are the benefits of this development?

What could be a negative result of this development?

Year 10: Urban Sprawl or Consolidation: Jordan Springs

Have a read of this article: http://penrith-press.whereilive.com.au/news/story/new-suburb-jordan-springs-pops-up-from-adi-site/

1. Is this an example of urban consolidation or urban sprawl? Why?

2. Do you think that this development is positive or negative for the surrounding community? For Sydney? For Australia?

Visit the development for more info: http://www.jordansprings.com.au/

Answer these questions in your own post on your blog.

Assessment Prep: Urban Sprawl

Have a look at the upcoming assessment:

KNOX GRAMMAR SCHOOL

Year 10 Assessment Task 2 Notification

Term 1, Week 9, 2011

Task details

Assessment Task 2 is to be in the format of an in-class extended response to be completed over 40 minutes under test conditions.

Venue: In class

Tuesday 29 March:               Period 2- Mr. Manuel’s 10J class

Wednesday 30 March:          Period 1- Mr. Crighton’s 10F class, Mr. deBotton’s 10G class,

                                                Mr. Shute’s 10 H class.

Thursday 31 March:             Period 2- Mr. Shute’s 10D class, Mr. Crighton’s 10E class

                                                Period 3- Mr. deBotton’s 10A class, Mr. Cavallaro’s 10B class,

                                                Mr. Manuel’s 10C class.

                                                Period 6- Mr. Cavallaro’s 10J class

Time

Time allowed: 40 minutes

Reading time: 5 minutes

Test weighting for year: 15%

Format of assessment task

Students will be asked to examine a particular geographical issue in the Australian environment, either Waste Management or Urban Growth and Decline, and to complete the following-

·         Describe the issue

·         Outline two responses to the issue

·         Outline the perspectives of two different groups (NGOs, governments, individuals, businesses or groups) to the issue.

·         Evaluate the effectiveness of ONE response to the issue.

Outcomes to be tested

A student:

5.1      identifies gathers and evaluates geographical information

5.2      analyses, organises and synthesises geographical information.

5.3      selects and uses appropriate written, oral and graphic forms to communicate geographical information

5.5      demonstrates a sense of place about Australian environments

5.7      analyses the impacts of different perspectives on geographical issues at local, national and global scales.

5.10    applies geographical knowledge, understanding and skills with knowledge of civics to demonstrate informed and active citizenship.

The issue that we are going to focus on is URBAN SPRAWL.

What you need to do is the following in a blog post of your own:

1. Identify specific examples of Urban Sprawl and Consolidation in Sydney and describe how these are examples of urban sprawl (include photos). (1 of each - consolidation and sprawl)

2. In one of these examples you need to identify and list all of the INVOLVED PARTIES - (NGOs, governments, individuals, businesses or groups)


3. Describe how all of these parties (at least two) are involved in this example of Urban Sprawl. Talk about what their interest is in this development/area of development. (At least two paragraphs for each group.)

4. What are the possible responses to the issue? Or, if there has been a response already, what is has been the response to this issue? (at least two responses)

5. Evaluate the effectiveness of one of the possible responses to this instance of Urban Sprawl.

Year 10: Tuesday 15/3: The Most and Least Expensive Suburbs in Sydney

Classwork:

1. List the top 5 most expensive suburbs. Why do you think that these suburbs are so expensive to live in? What can you say about where they are all located?
2. List the top 5 least expensive suburbs. Why do you think that these suburbs are so inexpensive to live in? What can you say about where they are all located?

Homework:

9.2 Questions 1-14

Year 9 Wednesday 16/3: The Earthquake and Tsunami in Japan

1. Tell me all about the recent natural disaster in Japan: (nytimes.com has some great info)

• Where was the epicentre of the earthquake?
• What was the size of the earthquake?
• What are some of the areas most effected? Describe the devastation and include an image.
• Describe the impending man-made disaster: what, where , why?

2. Catch up on last class's homework.

HW: 1.10 1-18

Year 9 Fri 11/3: Australia's Natural Resources

Classwork:
(Include graphs in your answer)
1. Who is Australia's largest export partner? What products do they export with them? How much of each product do they export? For what purpose does that country need the products they import from Australia?

2. Who is Australia's largest import partner? What do they import from them? How much? Why do you think that Australia imports these goods from this country?

Homework:
Answer questions 1-18 on pg 35 of your text book.

Year 10 Mond 14/3: Urban Planning and Development

Many of you still need to define the words and give examples (photos work great) of each.

After that yall can get cranking on the questions on pg 213 1-12. These are due tomorrow so if you don't finish YOU'VE GOT HOMEWORK!!

CAV

Year 10: Urban Renew and Decay

• Define the following terms and include an example of each and explain how your example relates the word:
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• Aesthetics
• Safety
• Slums
• Decay
• Reconstruction and renewal
• Transport
• Suburbanization
• Environmental factors
• Light and sound

Year 9 Tue 8/3: Endemic Plants to Australia

Create a diagram of an endemic plant to Australia. You can use an existing photo of the plant. Label the import features of this plant which are clearly linked to the uniques climate of Australia.

Year 9B2: You need to complete all of 1.7 except the last question which requires graphing.

Team Coastal Management Review Test

1. In Teams you have 15min to complete the test.

Year 10 Thur 3/3: Coastal Vocab Quiz