Innovative Programming Deb Owens and Alex Pentz
Year 7 - Weird and Wonderful Landscapes and Landforms Content Integrated Topics Key Learning Activities Tools/Skills ● Variety of ● Landscapes and ● Map of the world ● Identify the main Landscapes and landforms with main continents types of Landforms and oceans, and photographs ● Restless Earth - location of some of (ground, oblique, geomorphic process these landscapes. aerial and satellite) ● Valuing landscapes/ ● Use playdough to landforms construct formation of Uluru
Year 7 - Weird and Wonderful Landscapes and Landforms GIS/tech Visible Thinking Fieldwork Assessment/s ● See, Think, ● AT1 ● Google Cardboard/ ● Virtual fieldwork - a map of the world Wonder routine- using GIS 360 deg with major landforms activity airpano/Expedition continents, oceans, s app to explore lines of lat/long and ● Headlines routine - location of ONE different summarising the landscape/landform landscapes/ main ideas of (BOLTSS) valuing landscapes landforms - an annotated photo - a simple flow chart outlining the formation of the landform
Year 7 - Coral Reefs and Mountains Content Integrated Topics Key Learning Activities Tools/Skills ● Coral reefs - ● Landscapes and ● Literacy/writing task ● Reading climate geomorphic processes landforms on strategies to graphs and and valuing, ● Water in the achieve identifying features management world/Natural sustainability in on synoptic charts strategies) hazards coral reefs - atmospheric/ ● Mountains - summit to tropical cyclone GBR ● Develop an annotated ● Topographic map visual display map of sea (geomorphic ● Interconnections skills the Ganges River that processes, land - Personal identifies and degradation, water connections/ describes the uses scarcity, water tourism in coral reefs and value of the river. management ● Water in the world/natural ● Pre-test on the water hazards in cycle Nepal/Ganges - floods and earthquakes
Year 7 - Coral Reefs and Mountains GIS/tech Visible Thinking Fieldwork Assessment/s ● Sentence,phrase, ● Virtual fieldwork ● AT2 ● Google maps word routine, using GIS - Research task on a underwater examining the cyclone/hurricane streetview impacts of tourism ● Blue Mountains affecting a coral reef ● Create and record a on coral reefs National Park with synoptic chart 1-minute weather and map (scales) of report for Cairns ● I used to think, now location ● Create an I think routine about infographic on the how water is used ● AT3 characteristics of the along the Ganges - Fieldwork report on Ganges the Blue Mountains ● Run the River app - MDA
Source: http://www.worldbank.org/en/news/infographic/2015/12/30/mighty-ganga-basin
Year 7 - The Lorax Content Integrated Topics Key Learning Activities Tools/Skills ● Valuing landscapes and ● Landscapes and Watch the Lorax original video ● Draw a map that shows landforms landforms 25 minutes the different places mentioned in the story. Identify how the Once- le��s ● Changing landscapes ● Interconnections - Use the directions that valuing of the landscape is tourism the Once-ler gives to his diffe�e�t f�o� the Lo�a��s ● Landscape management family as a guide and protection ● Water in the World valuing of the landscape. ● Identify the landscape Consider the spectrum of and landforms - Landscapes might include: management from exploitation annotation of images Kakadu National Park, Sahara, through utility, conservation to S�d�e��s No�the�� Bea�hes, preservation. Benaue Rice Terraces, The Identify where the Lorax would Pilbara, Grand Canyon, Venice, sit and where the Once-ler Machu Picchu, Blue Lake (Mount would sit on this spectrum. Ga��ie�), Du�ai�s �oasts, Ci��ue In groups, select a landscape to Terre, The Dead Sea determine what it will look like Use iBook author to create a in 50 years? Consider pos and similar tale about your chosen �eg i�flue��es. �Choose �ou� landscape and share with Yr3-4 o�� ad�e�tu�e� - UNLESS
Year 8 - Place and Liveability Content Integrated Topics Key Learning Tools/Skills Activities ● Sydney ● Water in the ● Investigating ● Synoptic charts ● International world - climate Domain’s & weather maps Rankings and and liveability. liveability map & - climate and investigation ● Integrating writing task liveability. ● Climate and tools/skills ● Video - report ● Using liveability investigating key ‘Snap2Map’ on ● Improving liveability factors excursion to note liveability with synoptic liveability factors. ● Dangerous and chart. ● Interpreting extreme places ● Re-design choropleth maps to live Roseville to be and graphs. ● Liveable for more suitable for ● Topographic who? teenagers. maps - influence ● Poster - of topography on dangers/extreme liveability. places to live
Year 8 - Place and Liveability GIS/Tech Visible Thinking Assessment Fieldwork ● Domain’s ● See, Think, ● Fieldwork report ● Oran Park. liveability map Wonder - Snap2Map ● Movie making ● Headlines (ArcGIS software - iMovie ● Circle of software app) ● SketchUp - Viewpoints images and key online modeling ● True for Whom? liveability software factors.
Domain’s Liveability Calculator
Writing Task - Evaluating Liveability Rankings
Liveability around the world
Extreme places to live
Extreme Places to Live
Extreme Places to Live
Year 8 - Interconnections Content Integrated Topics Key Learning Activities Skills/Tools ● Personal ● Water in the ● Class map of ● Graphical Interconnections World- interconnections interpretation ● Fashion Examining ● Google TourBuilder - ● Collecting and ● Mini-electives impact of fashion lifecycle of a piece of Interpreting data (electronics, ivory industry on water clothing - class survey trade, China’s New sources - River ● Simulations & games and results Silk Road, tourism, Blue & Murray ● Interactive display analysis on mining) Darling Plan ● Fashion timeline fashion trends ● Infographic on one and waste. issue explored in The ● Google True Cost TourBuilder - ● Australian textiles in lifecycle of a the global economy & garment Murray Darling
Year 8 - Interconnections GIS/Tech Visible Thinking Assessment Fieldwork Routines ● Circle of Viewpoints ● Group Task ● Incursion - guest - key stakeholders ● GIS activity - investigating speaker from and producers in connectography. supply chain on Baptist World Aid. global fashion ● Creating fashion company. Annual Fashion supply chain choropleth maps Google Tour Report. ● Compass points - ● Ship Map - Builder to present plenary interactive map this. ● Jigsaw - solutions to of world trade. ● In-class test issues in the fashion ● Podcast - industry. Wardrobe Crisis ● Headlines - summarising River Blue ● Connect, Extend, Challenge - Murray Darling Basin & Cotton Farming
Baptist World Aid Simulation Game
Clothes Swap
Year 9 - Changing Places Content Integration Key Learning Activities Tools/Skills ● Urban settlement ● Changing places ● Use fact file to ● Map reading patterns compare Sydney with ● Graph interpretation ● The urban explosion ● Focus on integrating ONE of: London, of population data of - Urbanisation in tech/online tools Mumbai, New York, internal migration China/push-pull Rio de Janeiro or ● International factors/impacts (Left Johannesburg migration data Behind Generation) ● Aust�alia�s u��a� ● Complete VENN interpretation future - Barangaroo diagram comparing ● Reading and and sustainability Australia and USA interpreting ● People on the move settlement patterns population pyramids - International ● Advertisement to ● Construct a flowline migration to Australia attract people to map for internal - sources of rural/regional town migration NSW migration, changing patterns - Internal migration
Year 9 - Changing Places GIS/tech Visible Thinking Fieldwork Assessment/s ● Compass Points ● Barangaroo - examining ● AT1 ● Use Google maps to (NESW- need to know, social, environmental and - In class response locate the Sydney exciting, worrisome, economic sustainability using fieldwork data metro area - create a strategies for future) fact file for Sydney routine examining the which outlines the size future of urbanisation of the city, the size of in China the population and any ● Circle of Viewpoints other defining routine considering the characteristics. views of present and ● Use world popn future interactive to interpret residents/workforce, characteristics of government, settlement patterns developers in ● Create Weebly on Barangaroo impacts of urbanisation in ONE city
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