MCCORMACK CATHOLIC COLLEGE SOCIAL SCIENCE YEAR 10 GEOGRAPHY EXTENSION 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 focus 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 1 Coastal environments as the context for Students to analyse how the coast is a comparative study of an used in Australia and other locations. environmental for Australia and one Students to explain the coastal other country: processes of erosion and deposition and evaluate role as a cause of The causes and likely consequences of environmental change in coastal environmental investigated () environments. Students to explain 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 Explain how headlands and environmental for Australia and one bays are formed using diagrams other country: and detailed descriptions Explain the differences in rates The causes and likely consequences of of erosion in areas of hard and environmental being investigated () soft rock Explain the refraction of waves as they enter a bay Explain how the process of deposition forms beaches in a bay Draw and explain how caves, arches, stacks and stumps are formed in a coastal landscape Describe and explain the 4 of erosion (attrition, abrasion, hydraulic action and corrosion) Explain what types of erosion occur to form the erosional
MCCORMACK CATHOLIC COLLEGE SOCIAL SCIENCE YEAR 10 GEOGRAPHY EXTENSION 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 focus 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 1 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 to analyse how the coast is used in Australia and other locations. Students to explain the coastal processes of erosion and deposition and evaluate role as a cause of environmental change in coastal environments. Students to explain 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 being investigated () Students should be able to Explain how headlands and bays are formed using diagrams and detailed descriptions Explain the differences in rates of erosion in areas of hard and soft rock Explain the refraction of waves as they enter a bay Explain how the process of deposition forms beaches in a bay Draw and explain how caves, arches, stacks and stumps are formed in a coastal landscape Describe and explain the 4 of erosion (attrition, abrasion, hydraulic action and corrosion) Explain what types of erosion occur to form the erosional
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