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Current issues - Antarctica |
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Current issues - Antarctica |
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Geography:
i) Map the
region on a world map, and ii) on enlarged maps of the Antarctic, identify:
Draw a map of
Antarctica and Australia 200
million years ago
List the landforms
and physical features
Climate
Describe the
climate (eg seasons, temp ranges, lowest recorded temperature, rainfall,
wind speed)
What are the
current weather
conditions. Contribute to a class graph of daily temperature.
Significant events and interactions
Research different
facets of human involvement in the Antarctic. e.g.
List specific
people involved
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Challenge Select one of these people eg owner of a mining company, geologist, ecologist, military leader, explorer) and collect evidence of their perspective on an issue involving the Antarctic eg reaction to an oil spill, building of a tourist facility. |
Impact of human interaction
Draw up a timeline
for the last hundred years, showing changes. (eg huskies)
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Challenge
Case study of an area of change |
Decision making and global connections
List the possible
consequences of human involvement predicted by Greenpeace or another environmental
group.
List ways in
which other countries, eg Australia, can assist.
Maintain a
media file related to the Antarctic.
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Challenge
List current treaties. Summarise key points of each. |
History
Make a timeline
of discovery and exploration. Research one person or expedition in depth,
to add to wall timeline.
[Skill development] Mawson - issues re preserving
his hut, and artefacts, dogs,
Science connections
What causes
the ozone hole?
Make a database
of species - whales, seals, penguins, plants, birds, insects, introduced
species
Challenge Draw a food web
What kinds
of research are being undertaken?
Vocational education
List jobs that
people do in the Antarctic. Include researchers found above. What tasks
do these jobs entail?
Tantalising tidbits
Collect interesting
facts, to use later in a quiz game. Include the basics, such as area, origin
of name.
Then investigate continental drift, fossils, dinosaurs,
Mt Erebus air disaster ...
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| DEFINING | What do I already
know?
What do I wonder about? |
Develop a web / concept map |
| LOCATING | Sources of information
Copyright |
Brainstorm search strategy
Keep internet printouts in a file, separate to research portfolio. Add favourite photos from internet to shared intranet
page.
Year 5: Review guidelines for bibliography |
| SELECTING | Areas of research
/ Mawson
Australia's research stations Amundsen |
Review notetaking.
Use photocopied text.
Worksample for portfolio. Electronic notetaking:- Cut and paste, in noteform. Add to Intranet topics. |
| ORGANISING | What are the various species?
Collect favourite images |
Use a table, add to class database,
sort fields
Add to a Stage 3 intranet alphabet gallery.
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| PRESENTING | Various
Bibliography |
Exposition, graph
statistics, timeline, mapping, information report
Show range of resources. |
| ASSESSING | How valuable are books and websites? | What was the benefit of books?
What was the benefit of teh internet? Write a paragraph comparing each. |
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Glossary:
desert, chill factor, continent, ice sheet, ice shelves,
iceberg, ice floe, icecap, crevasse, glacier, icebreaker, pack ice, peninsula,
transAntarctic, geographic pole, magnetic pole, conservation, rookery,
blizzard, ozone, ozone layer, continental shelf, food chain, meteorologist,
geologist, krill, phytoplankton, skidoo
Fiction
Tarin of the ice by Sheryn Dee 87, Troubling a star by
Madeleine L'Engle 94, Antarctica; Journey to the pole & Escape from
disaster by Peter Lerangis, The riddle of the frozen phantom by Margaret Mahy, Whalers of the midnight sun by Alan Villiers, Voices by Edel Wignell,
Pip the penguin by Joy Cowley & Gavin Bishop pb, Tom's rabbit; a true
story from Scott's last voyage by Meredith Hooper & Bert Kitchen pb,
The pole seekers (sea rats on Discovery) by Meredith Hooper pb,
| Notetaking
proformas
[Word docs]:
SET 1 [portrait]: overland explorers, scientific research SET 2 [landscape]: whales, penguins, seals, timeline of changes |
