Environmental Change and Management

Unit Title:

Environmental Change and Management: Part One

Web Reference:

http://www.australiancurriculum.edu.au/humanities-and-social-sciences/geography/curriculum/f-10?layout=1#level10

ACARA References:

ACHGKO70

Unit Proceeded:

Introduction to Year Eight

Geography (1 Week.)

Classroom Diversity:

The class consists of 30 students with a variety of learning capabilities, including two students with low literacy and four
students who have been identified as highly capable based on their NAPLAN test results. The classroom is diverse and has
students with EAL/D

Unit Description:

This is the first unit of two dedicated on the topic, Environmental Change and Management over a ten week period. The unit is
taken from the Australian National Curriculum and focuses on; the human induced changes and the Aboriginal and Torres Strait
Islander approaches to land management.

Revision:

This unit is building upon the Introduction Unit to Year Ten Geography, which focuses on teaching students the basic
geography skills of; sketching, map reading etc.

Assessment

Formative: Worksheet and class debate based on the movie, Mabo by Rachel Perkins (2012)

Unit Followed by:

Teacher:

Miss Rasche

Landscapes and Landforms (Part Two) (5 Weeks unit)

Summative: Field Trip Report to be completed after school excursion to Glenelg and Sellicks Beach

KEY INQUIRY QUESTIONS

ACARA KEY INQUIRY QUESTIONS

YEAR 10 KEY INQUIRY QUESTIONS

How can the spatial variation between places and changes in

environments be explained? (ETC)

GEOGRAPHY INQUIRY AND SKILLS: TAKEN FROM ACARA GEOGRAPHY

Developing questions on an area of focus in the Geographical Knowledge

TERMS
Landscapes, etc.

CONCEPTS
Space, etc

SKILLS
Using Google Earth, doing transects, field Sketching, taking photographs etc.

ASSESSMENT

What is sustainability (ETC)

Summative Assessment

Students will attend a field trip to Glenelg and Formative

Sellicks Beach to look at the effects of long shore Assessment
drift, coastal erosion, and to observe the effects of
human development.
Students will be required to complete a Field Trip
Handbook. Students will then use this information
to create a Field Trip Report.

Advanced Students: Will be required to use a local

and overseas example to support their argument.
Learning Difficulties: Students will have the task
modified and word limit reduced or a Negotiated
Learning Plan will be used.

Students will be required to write down 10

facts/observations for their Fact Swap activity sheet
during the double period.
Students will be confirming their learning attainment
through a class debate on the importance of the
landscapes in media/film for the remainder of the class.

Students will be required to use their data to

support their recommendations on human
development on the beach.

Differentiation

Students will be required to watch the movie, Mabo

directed by Rachel Perkins (2012) during a double period.

Students will have to hand in their Fact Swap activity

sheet for formative marking.

Differentiation

Advanced Students: Will be made class adjudicators and

time keepers.
Learning Difficulties: Full participation is expected for this
activity.