COURSE OUTLINE COURSE OUTLINE ATAR GEOGRAPHY YEAR 12 2017 JOHN PAUL COLLEGE
UNIT 3 Global Environmental Change Content Learning, readings and homework Week/ Dates TOPIC 1 Nature, extent, causes and consequences of land cover change 1 30-3 Feb 2 6-10 Feb 3 13-17 Feb Overview of nature, extent, cause and consequences of land cover change Outline the concepts of environment, natural and anthropogenic biomes, land cover change, ecosystem structure and dynamics, biodiversity loss, climate change and sustainability. Reading: Textbook WA ATAR Geography Units 3&4 (WAAG) pg.2-4, Questions; pg 4 1-3 and 1.2 Anthropogenic Biomes qu 1-3. Identification and classification of land cover changes with reference to global forests, agriculture and urban land cover. Reading: WAAG pp.6-7, Q 1-2 Mapping: Text -Geographical Skills: (GS) What is Geography? Unit 2 pg: 4-5 Ecosystems and Population Growth Explain the implications of anthropogenic biomes to the functioning of the world's ecosystems Reading; (WAAG) 1.4 pg. 8-14 Qu: pg 8 1-2, pg 9 1-2, pg 14 1-20 Discuss the impact of world population growth, growing affluence, advances in technology on the nature, rate and extent of land cover change and biodiversity loss Reading: WAAG 9-14; pg 9 1-2, pg 14 1-20 Ecosystems and Population Growth Explain the consequences of anthropogenic biomes to the functioning of the world's ecosystems. Project changes in land cover using existing spatial models, incorporating both environmental and socioeconomic variables Investigate Indigenous peoples' land management practices and their impact on land cover over time, including those of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples Reading; (WAAG) 15-21 pg. 16 Qu 1-3 Qu: pg 17 1-4, pg 18 1-4, pg 21 1-9 Reading: Textbook (TB) OGF pp.31-36 Act TOPIC 2 Depth Study One Linking Land Cover and Climate Changes 4 Natural Climate & Systems Explain the Earth s Climate, Global temperature and precipitation patterns. Illustrate and 20-24 Feb describe the key elements of the following natural systems: heat budget (including the greenhouse effect), hydrological cycle, carbon cycle and atmospheric circulation, ocean currents Reading: Textbook WAAG pp.22-32 Qu complete in all sections 5 27-3 Mar 6 6-10 Mar 7 13-17 Mar Climate change Identify and explain the causes (natural & anthropogenic) and rate of global climate change Describe one major type of evidence for climate change through geological time Describe one major type of evidence for climate change in recent human history Reading: Textbook WAAG Pg 29-41, Qu in chapters Natural Systems & climate Explain the ways in which the heat budget (including the greenhouse effect), hydrological cycle, carbon cycle and atmospheric circulation interact to influence the Earth s climate Describe the spatial distribution of the world s rainfall and temperature patterns Reading: Textbook WAAG pp.29-31 Qu 1-3, Textbook WAAG pg 32-33, Qu 1-4 Climate change Identify and explain the causes (natural & anthropogenic) and rate of global climate change Describe one major type of evidence for climate change through geological time Describe one major type of evidence for climate change in recent human history Reading: Textbook WAAG Pg 33-41, Qu 1-3 Assessments/ Interruptions Opening School Mass Friday Thursday Modified Timetable Mon- Senior Cricket Task 1: Geography Skills Senior Dancing Week Swimming Carnival Monday Ash Wednesday M/T Labour Day Monday Clancy Mass Wed M/T University Visit Monday ACC Swimming Friday Task 2A: Geographical inquiry
Week/ Dates 8 20-24 Mar 9 27-31 Mar 10 3-7 Apr Content Learning, readings and homework Land cover change & climate change Discuss the interrelationship between land cover change and climate, including changes to surface reflectivity (albedo) and the process of natural carbon sequestration Effects and impacts of climate change Analyse the effects of climate change on land cover in natural and anthropogenic biomes (vegetation, ice sheets, glaciers, coastal systems and coral reefs, agriculture, urban settlements and industry). Analyse the projected impacts of global climate change Explain the differences in the process of land cover change between countries due to factors such as government policy, institutional arrangements, land ownership, type of economy, ideology and culture Reading: Textbook WAAG pg 41-43, Qu 1-3, pg 44-47, Qu 1-3, pg 47-51, qu 1-4 RETREAT Climate change commitment and irreversibility Watch Inconvenient Truth Activity 3, pg 51 on Butcher paper / catch up week. Research one country that is addressing Climate change. TOPIC 3 Depth study two Investigating Land Cover Management Term 2 Approaches to Land Cover Restoration and Rehabilitation Week 1 Explain how human activity has adapted, or may be required to adapt, to climate 24-28 Apr change Mitigating Future Land Cover Changes mine sites, indigenous management practices Northern Australia s Land Management Reading: Textbook WAAG pg 78-79, Qu 1-4, pg 80-81, Qu 1-6, pg 81-84, qu 1-4 2 1-5 May 3 8-12 May 4 15-19 May 5 22-26 May 6 29-2 June Global Climate Change - Mitigation Reducing greenhouse gases locally and globally, International forums on climate change- Activity 1 pg 85; Youtube History of Climate Change Negotiations. Climate change debate Australia and international. Reading: Textbook WAAG pg 84-85, Qu 1-5, Global Climate Change Adaptation Adapting to water scarcity; Desalination; Sustainable irrigation and the ORIA; Adapting to sea level rise; Move to or create higher ground; Manage water better; Change Crops and watch weather. Reading: Textbook WAAG pg 86-88, Qu 1-6, Loss of Biodiversity - Mitigation Agrobiodiversity GM Crops; Ribbons of green; Development by design Reading: Textbook WAAG pg 89-91, Qu 1-5, Look at Carbon Neutral Inc. Loss of Biodiversity - Adaptation Restoring agricultural land- Soil degradation Reading: Textbook WAAG pg 92-93, Qu 1-5, Snell Book Addressing Land Cover Change: A Case study of Kachana in the Kimberley Reading: Textbook WAAG pg 93-96, Qu 1-5(pg94) Qu 1-3 pg 96. Revision Revision 7 Exams 5-9 June Assessments/ Interruptions Year 12 Retreat Wed P/T Interviews early close Assembly M/T Friday Task 2B: Geographical Inclass Mon/Tues Public Holiday Wed- Rice Mass M/T & P/T Interviews early close Fri Cross Country Production Week Task 3: Short/Extended Response Thursday Founders Day Task 4: Fieldwork/Practical Skills Thurs ACC Cross Country Task 5: Examination
Planning sustainable places TOPIC 1 Overview of places and their challenges Week/ Dates 8 12-16 June (1) UNIT 4 Content Learning, readings and homework Places SYLLABUS understand the processes resulting in changes in places and how the places investigated can be made more sustainable Assessments/ Interruptions Exams Conclude Tues 9 19-23 June (2) The process of urbanisation and its implications for world population growth and human wellbeing in urban and rural places. the economic and environmental interdependence of urban and rural places the historical, cultural, economic and environmental factors that have contributed to the spatial distribution of urban and rural places in Australia Reading: Textbook WAAG Chapter 6.1 6.5 Places SYLLABUS understand the outcomes of the processes creating change in different communities The processes of urban sprawl, invasion and succession, renewal, planning, land use competition, inertia and agglomeration that have contributed to the characteristics and functions of urban and rural places in Australia. 10 26-30 June (3) The changing demographic, economic and social characteristics, including age, gender and socioeconomic and cultural distribution, in urban and rural places in Australia. Reading: Textbook WAAG Chapter 6.6-6.7 Challenges facing places SYLLUBUS understand and apply key geographical concepts including place, space, environment, interconnection, sustainability, scale and change as part of a geographical inquiry Wednesday Prendiville Mass M/T Assembly Friday M/T An overview of the challenges facing rural and remote places in Australia, including Indigenous communities (i.e. population loss, economic restructuring, employment, housing, service and water provision, concentrations of socially vulnerable populations, social inclusion and exclusion, transportation, resource degradation, land use conflicts, declining political influence, isolation and remoteness, fly-in/fly-out work patterns) Reading: Textbook WAAG Continued 6.8-6.9 Challenges facing places An overview of the challenges facing megacities and Australian metropolitan and regional centres (i.e. housing, economic restructuring, employment, transportation, congestion, environmental degradation, waste management, personal safety, land abandonment, urban sprawl, socio-spatial inequality, social inclusion and exclusion, changing demographics) Reading: Snell Chapter 5 TOPIC 2 Depth study one Perth Metropolitan Area Challenges and Planning Strategies 1 17-21 July (4) 2 24-28 July (5) Perth Morphology and Demographics Investigate the site, situation, internal and external morphology and functions of Perth Investigate the demographics of Perth Reading: Textbook WAAG Investigating Perth 7.1-7.3 Snell Chapter 5 Topic 1 & 2 Perth Planning Strategies Investigate the nature, scope and causes of the challenges of urban sprawl, transportation/congestion, environmental degradation and urban sprawl in the Perth metropolitan area. Reading: Textbook WAAG 7.4-7.5 Snell Chapter 5 Topic 3 Pupil free day Monday Photo Day Thurs TASK 6: Short & Extended Answer P/T Interviews Wed early close Task 7: Fieldwork Part A
3 31-4 Aug (6) 4 7-11 Aug (7) 5 14-18 Aug (8) Stakeholder views and attitudes SYLLUBUS gather and analyse primary and secondary data to reveal trends in, and relationships between, the processes resulting in change in places Analyse the implications for metropolitan Perth of each challenge Discuss the views and attitudes of major stakeholder groups related to each challenge. Reading: Textbook WAAG 7.6-7.9 Perth Strategies Describe the range of planning strategies that have been used to address each challenge, and how these compare with, and/or have been informed by, responses implemented in other places, both inside and outside Australia Reading: Snell Chapter 5 Perth Strategies SYLLUBUS apply geographical inquiry and a range of skills, including spatial technologies and fieldwork, to investigate a challenge associated with the sustainability of places. Geography Excursion MacKillop Mass Wed M/T JPC Athletics Fri Pupil Free Day Friday Analyse the extent to which the planning strategies adopted in metropolitan Perth have been, or could be, informed by the concept of sustainability Discuss the strategies adopted in metropolitan Perth to address these challenges Analyse the extent to which these strategies have enhanced its sustainability and liveability. evaluate alternative planning strategies or proposals to manage a selected challenge. Task 7: Fieldwork Part B Reading: Target Revision Guide TOPIC 3 Depth study one New York Metropolitan Area Challenges and Planning Strategies Week/ Content Learning, readings and homework Assessments/ Dates Interruptions 6 New York morphology and Demographics Mon Catholic Day Investigate the site, situation, internal and external morphology and functions of NYC Task 8 : 21-25 Aug Investigate the demographics of NYC Inquiry New (9) Reading: Textbook WAAG 10.1-10.3 SNELL Chapter 6 Topic 1 & 2 York 7 28 Aug 1 Sept (10) New York Planning Strategies Investigate the nature, scope and causes of the challenges of transportation/congestion and housing in the NYC Investigate the range of planning strategies used to address transportation/congestion and housing in NYC, and how these compare with, and/or have been informed by, responses implemented in other world megacities Reading: Textbook WAAG 10-4 -10-8 SNELL Chapter 6 Topic 3 TOPIC 4 Values and viewpoints in people s use of places 8 4-8 Sept (11) 9 11-15 Sept (12) 10 18-21 Sept (13) New York Planning Strategies Analyse the extent to which the planning strategies adopted in the selected megacity have been, or could be, informed by the concept of sustainability Discuss the strategies adopted in the selected megacity to address these challenges Analyse the extent to which these strategies have enhanced the sustainability and liveability of the selected megacity. Reading: Textbook WAAG 10-9-10.10 Snell Chapter 6 Topic 3 Geographical skills mapping skills remote sensing skills graphical and statistical data skills Reading: Revision for Exams McAuley Mass M/T Fri Arts Night Task 7 Due TASK 9: Short and extended answer Depth Study Two ACC Athletics Mon House Farewells Assembly Friday
Unit 3&4 Week Assessment Weighting Week 4 Week 7-10 Week 14 Week 15 Week 16 Week 4 Task 1: Fieldwork/practical skills map interpretation, data analysis Task 2: Geographical inquiry Part A: Geographical inquiry skills Part B: In-class written report communicating findings using appropriate written, cartographic Task 3: Short and Extended Answer content from the overview of Depth study two Task 4: Fieldwork/practical skills content covered in Depth Study Two Task 5: Examination content covered in Unit 3 Task 6: Short and Extended Answer Content on overview of places and challenges 2.5% 7.5% 10% 2.5% 20% 10% Week 5-8 Task 7: Fieldwork Perth Metro 2.5% Part A: Collecting and interpreting primary information and/or data 7.5% Part B: Fieldwork/practical skills test based on an in-class validation of the Perth fieldwork 10% Week 9-10 Week 11 Week 16 Task 8: Geographical Inquiry 7.5% Geographical inquiry skills New York City Task 9: Extended response 10% content covered in Depth Study Two New York City Exams 20%