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.