IRENE MCCORMACK CATHOLIC COLLEGE SOCIAL SCIENCE YEAR 10 GEOGRAPHY COURSE 2 PROGRAM 2018 OVERVIEW: In Year 10 Humanities and Social Sciences consists of Civics and Citizenship, Economics and Business, Geography and History. In Year 10, students will study these on a rotational basis spending 8 weeks on each topic with a specialist teacher during Terms 1-3. In Term 4, all students will study the History World War Two topic. Students develop increasing independence in critical thinking and skill application, which includes questioning, researching, analysing, evaluating, communicating and reflecting. They apply these skills to investigate events, developments, issues and phenomena, both historical and contemporary. In Geography, the concepts of , , environment, , sustainability and continue to be developed as a way of thinking, through an applied on the management of and the geography of at the full range of scales, from to global and in a range of locations. WEEK WA CURRICULUM CONTENT LESSON TOPICS ASSESSMENT DESCRIPTION TASKS 1 Coastal environments as the context for Students to understand how the coast a comparative of an is used in Australia and other locations. environmental for Australia and one Students to understand the coastal other country: processes of erosion and deposition as a cause of environmental change in The causes and likely consequences of coastal environments. environmental being investigated () Students to understand how Constructive and destructive waves operate to create environmental change. 2 Coastal environments as the context for Students should be able to a comparative study of an Describe how headlands and environmental for Australia and one bays are formed using diagrams other country: Identify the differences in rates of erosion in areas of hard and The causes and likely consequences of soft rock environmental investigated () Understand the refraction of waves as they enter a bay Explain how the process of deposition forms beaches in a bay Draw and describe how caves, arches, stacks and stumps are formed in a coastal landscape Name and describe the 4 types of erosion (attrition, abrasion, hydraulic action and corrosion) Identify and describe of erosion occur to form the
IRENE MCCORMACK CATHOLIC COLLEGE SOCIAL SCIENCE YEAR 10 GEOGRAPHY COURSE 2 PROGRAM 2018 OVERVIEW: In Year 10 Humanities and Social Sciences consists of Civics and Citizenship, Economics and Business, Geography and History. In Year 10, students will study these on a rotational basis spending 8 weeks on each topic with a specialist teacher during Terms 1-3. In Term 4, all students will study the History World War Two topic. Students develop increasing independence in critical thinking and skill application, which includes questioning, researching, analysing, evaluating, communicating and reflecting. They apply these skills to investigate events, developments, issues and phenomena, both historical and contemporary. In Geography, the concepts of , , environment, , sustainability and continue to be developed as a way of thinking, through an applied on the management of and the geography of at the full range of scales, from to global and in a range of locations. WEEK WA CURRICULUM CONTENT DESCRIPTION LESSON TOPICS ASSESSMENT TASKS 1 Coastal environments as the context for a comparative of an environmental for Australia and one other country: The causes and likely consequences of environmental being investigated () Students to understand how the coast is used in Australia and other locations. Students to understand the coastal processes of erosion and deposition as a cause of environmental change in coastal environments. Students to understand how Constructive and destructive waves operate to create environmental change. 2 Coastal environments as the context for a comparative study of an environmental for Australia and one other country: The causes and likely consequences of environmental investigated () Students should be able to Describe how headlands and bays are formed using diagrams Identify the differences in rates of erosion in areas of hard and soft rock Understand the refraction of waves as they enter a bay Explain how the process of deposition forms beaches in a bay Draw and describe how caves, arches, stacks and stumps are formed in a coastal landscape Name and describe the 4 types of erosion (attrition, abrasion, hydraulic action and corrosion) Identify and describe of erosion occur to form the
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