Term 1 Overview -Year 7 Geography, 2018

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1 Term 1 Overview -Year 7 Geography, 2018 Term 1 Week 1 No Students STAFF PD Day One: Monday Day Two: Tuesday Day Three: Wednesday Day Four: Thursday Day Five: Friday No Students STAFF PD Year 12, 7 & New Students Commence e-book access Getting to know you activities Establishing classroom rules and HASS expectations What is Geography? What do Geographers do? 2 Geographical concepts: SPICESS Oxford Big Ideas (OBI) pgs Lower school dancing 4 Senior school Features of Maps: BOLTSS Direction and Scale Getting to know your Atlas Types of maps DANCING Area and Grid referencing Ash Wednesday (MT) DANCING Why we live where we do? What is liveability? OBI pgs Where modern Australians live OBI pgs Push and pull factors for human settlements? Environments conductive to settlement Locating places on maps Latitude and Longitude Area and Grid referencing Activities Revision for test Mapping skills Activities Opening school Mass (MT) Locating places on maps Activities Inform students about test wk 4 Revision for test Mapping skills Activities Mapping Skills Test Assessment 1 5 Historical context of Australia s settlement patterns Where early Indigenous Australians lived OBI pg Public Holiday (Labour Day) Clancy Week 7 Preparing for assessment: collating info from fieldwork Living in large Australian Cities OBI Pgs Living in Coastal Australian areas. OBI Pg Introduce Liveability Assessment Assessment 2 The world s most livable cities: Case Studies: Vancouver and Vienna OBI pgs JPC Swimming Carnival (MT) How to measure liveability : objective and subjective factors OBI Chapter 3.2 pgs The world s least liveable cities: Case studies: Port Moresby and Harare OBI pgs Living in Rural Australian areas OBI Pgs Living in remote Australian areas OBI Pgs Walking excursion- Kalgoorlie CBD/ assessment- Lesson 1 Melbourne the most liveable city in the world How and why? OBI pgs Catch up lesson Walking excursion- Kalgoorlie CBD/assessment- Lesson 2 ACC Swimming

2 8 Strategies for improving liveability of places Videos and OBI pgs Easter The importance of water OBI pgs Catch up lesson Where water comes from? the water cycle (OBI pgs.46-47) Types of water: Grey, Green, Blue ( OBI pgs 72-73) Improving liveability for young people OBI pgs Types of rainfall Rainfall distribution in Australia OBI pgs Easter Holiday Easter Holiday Accessing water resources: Fresh water resources OBI pgs Stored fresh water OBI Pgs Last week Water availability and quality In Australia OBI -Pg Water in the world (focus on Africa) OBI pgs Africa Water Atlas ( resources) Introduce Assessment 3: Water Scarcity Assessment (due in Term 2) EARLY CLOSE (Parents Night) Work on Assessment Task 3 Improving environmental sustainability OBI pgs Holy Week Liturgy (MT) GEO Skills ; Climate graphs Skill Drill- pgs Mapping major water bodies: Oceans, Seas and Rivers Managing water scarcity: What is it? Causes and Effects OBI pgs The effects of water scarcity in Africa Environmental Resources- an overview OBI pgs Easter Holiday Water connects people and places OBI Pgs Swan River PPT Assembly-Modified timetable Water management in Australian cities- OBI pgs

3 Term 1 Overview Year 8 HASS 2018 Term 1 Week 1 Day One Day Two Day Three Day Four Day Five No Students No Students Year 12, 7 & New Students Commence HR Period 1 e-book access Revision Periods of time Time line 2 Empires- Vandals, Ostrogoths, Visigoths Empires- Vikings, Franks, Angels & Saxons Empires- Huns, Arab Tribes The change in social and economic values, migration, trade routes and battles. MASS Time line and mapping- Ottoman Empire 3 Lower School Ash Wednesday (modified timetable) Time line and mapping- Medieval Europe Time line and mapping- Vikings 4 Senior School 5 Assessment Task Feudalism- What is it? Origins Japan under the Shoguns Assessment Task distributed Assessment Task Assessment Task Assessment Task 6 Public Holiday (Labour Day) 7 The roles of the Village Courts, Church Courts and King s Court Who created the law Living in the medieval Christian World Assessment Due Trial by Ordeal Punishments JPC Swimming Carnival MODIFIED TIMETABLE Living in the medieval Christian World Witch craft Crime Control Feudalism- How does it work? Manorialism The Crusades Signing the Magna Carta 8 Revision Test Towns, cities and commerce Life in Asia, Europe and Africa before the Black Death New Empires, Kingdoms and Rulers Warfare- military and defence systems ACC SWIMMING Causes and symptoms of the Black Death

4 9 10 Causes and symptoms of the Black Death Holiday The Spread of the Black Death Holiday Medical Treatment Short-term and long-term effects of the Black Death Holy Week Liturgy (modified timetable) Seeking a cause and a cure Working on Assessment Holiday Working on Assessment 11 Work on assessment Work on assessment EARLY CLOSE Black Death source analysis assignment due Modified timetable

5 Week LESSON 1 TUESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY 1 STAFF PD STAFF PD NEW STUDENTS ONLY 2 Constitution and Federation Term 1 Year 9 HASS General Westminster System Three Levels of Government in Australia Three Branches of Government in Australia Parliament Functions Topic 1: Australia s Court System Living in a Democracy What is Government? Inner Workings of the Commonwealth Parliament 3 (No Class) Inner Workings of the Commonwealth Parliament 4 Federal Elections and Voting Influence of the Media (No Class) Or catch up lesson Other influences on voters 5 Work on assignment task Work on assignment task Work on assignment task Political Parties and Independents Handout Research Assignment Work on assignment task Topic 2: Australia s Court System The Principles of Australia s Legal System 6 LABOUR DAY Hierarchy of the Federal, State and Territory Courts Statue and Common Law Civil and Criminal Law Assignment Due and Validation 7 How a Court Case is Resolved Challenges to Justice Challenges to Justice ACC Swimming Role of the Police 8 Revision for Test Revision for Test Test Historical Skills 9 Historical Skills Agrarian Revolution and Enclosures Agrarian Revolution and Enclosures GOOD FRIDAY

6 10 EASTER MONDAY CATHOLIC DAY 11 New Inventions and Developments: Iron Production, Communication and Transportation New Inventions and Developments: Iron Production, Communication and Transportation Intro to the Industrial Revolution Catch-up New Inventions and Developments: Cotton and Wool Catch-up

7 Term 1- Year 10 General Economics-Geo 2018 Term 1 Week 1 2 Fri MT Mass 3 Wed MT 4 5 MON Swim Wed MT 6 Clancy Week Wed MT 7 Fri- ACC Swim OLNA 8 OLNA 9 Thurs MT Day One Day Two Day Three Day Four STAFF Day Commissioning Mass Intro Econs- N&W, G&S, Types of Economies, Factors of Production, Production and Consumption Economic Growth Economic Growth summarised STAFF Day Economic Problem Opportunity cost Australia s Economy Economic growth- Unemployment Business cycle Yr 7, 11, 12 & new students start Circular flow 5 sector Monetary Policy Intro supply and demand Videos on Staff share () Get to know activities and classroom expectations Economic Growth Fiscal Policy Demand Swimming Carnival Equilibrium Factors affecting Supply and Demand Labour Day ASSESSMENT 1 Economics in-class test (Monday) Factors affecting Supply and Demand Living standards Revision (Wednesday MT) Living standards Supply Test Revision Hand out assessment 2 (FRIDAY) Catch up lesson In class research In class research In class research In class research Improving business productivity Catch up if needed or Intro to Geography Applications, Activities, Skills Data analysis: statistics, tables, graphs, etc. ASSESSMENT 2 DUE: Economics Research Good Friday

8 10 Wed Parents Night, Fri MT 11 Wed early close Easter Monday Elements of topographic Maps: Contour Lines, intervals, symbols, etc Area and Grid Reference- Activities CEWA Holiday Area and Grid Reference- Activities (Wednesday early close- 7, 9, 10 parent teacher interviews) Starting Mapping Skills Mapping Power Point On Staff Share Class Revision : General Mapping PPT Topographic Mapping PPT Quizzes On Staff Share Mapping Skills Revision Catch up