Yr12 - Development - Assignment on Poverty - Help

Those of you looking at Natural Disasters - UNICEF has some videos describing the impact and affect on families. This one is talking about the drought in Mauritania. If you search the UNICEF section you can also find videos on AIDS/HIV and conflict.

Yr11 - Latitude and Longitude Introduction.

Great video clip introducing Latitude and Longitude.

Yr 12 - Poverty

Aims
To identify the Natural and Cultural factors that influence poverty.
To explain how these factors influence poverty.

Interesting article on how people live in 1$ a day!

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/7179019.stm

Yr11 - Cyclones.

Aim - To describe where Cyclones occur and how they form.

Cyclone Yasi hits Australia.

A very good animation showing how they are formed.
How Hurricanes/Cyclones are formed

Yr11 - Wellington Earthquake Fear

Interesting article on the cost and logistics of a possible future earthquake in Wellington. Lessons have been learnt from the Christchurch earthquake. Planners are considering how the main routes in and out of the city could become blocked following an earthquake and how they intend to prevent this from happening.


Wellington earthquake fear - No way out!http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/6434263/Wellington-earthquake-fear-No-way-in-or-out

YR 11 - Waterspout in Auckland

Rather a cool Extreme Natural Event!

Waterspout in Auckland

Yr 12 - 200 years that changed the world

An excellent video showing how different countries develop at different speeds and times.

yr11 - Natural and Cultural Features

Aim - To Identify the Natural and Cultural Features on a Topographical Map.

¡Natural Features: Features that occur naturally on the earth’s surface. They would still be there without people.

¡Cultural Features: These are features that are only present because of people. They are to do with people or are made by them.

Yr12 - What is development?

Aim - to define what development is.

Awful music but it raises some important questions.

Yr11 Map Work and IGIs

This week we have covered the following;

• The Important Geographical Ideas or "IGI's".
• Location, distance, change, pattern, process, perception, accessibility, system, culture, interaction and
• Map Skills - use of an Atlas, map construction and interpretation. 
• FACKTS - Frame, arrow, colour, key, title and scale. 

This video is a good introduction to topographic maps which we will be moving onto later next week.

Yr 12 - Development Inequalities

This week we have covered the following;

- To identify what we would need to survive and what we need to have a good standard of living.
- To describe and understand the spiritual model and the material model of development. (the way a country/culture develops)
 
Spiritual - To maintain a quality of life that protects the balance between material and spiritual needs. (To value friends, family, a fulfilling role in life over the amount of "stuff" we have.)
 
Material - To continually improve the standard of living and accumulate material wealth. (To earn as much money as possible and buy a big house and lots of things to go in it.)

- To identify the advantages and disadvantages of each model.

- To begin to define Developed and Developing.  

Developing - a country of region attempting to achieve the economy of a developed country.

Developed - a country or region that has a high standard of living based on a stable economy (the wealth and resources) with mature agricultural (farming), manufacturing (making things, factories), and tertiary (services, banking, shops) sectors.

 Some of you may want to watch the Teenage Affluenza video again. It illustrates nicely how sometimes we don't realise how lucky we are and hopefully makes us think about whether we really need all this "stuff" to have a decent standard of living.

Yr12 Development Inequalities

A very good slideshow on development with some very useful links!

Global Inequalities

View more PowerPoint from Rob Marchetto

Important Geographical Ideas - Yr12, Yr11

Aim - To identify and define the Important Geographical Ideas listed below.

Location - Where something is.
Distance - How far away something is.
Pattern - the arrangement of features in space. How close together or far apart they are or if they occur in a line or a circle.
Region - an area with at least one common feature.
Culture - a common way of life shared by one group of people.
Change - makes something different. Occurs in different places, times and rates.
Perception - peoples value's and culture alter the way they view and use their environment.
Accessibility - how easy it is to get to a place.
Interaction - a two way action that takes place in a cultural or natural environment.
System - a set of features linked together to form a whole.
Process - a sequence of related actions.