Geography

Topic: What makes Australia such a great country? The country will be assigned to you. You will be asked to compare the pluses, minuses and interesting facts between Australia and the country you have been appointed to explore. See your teacher if there appears to be very little data available about the country you have been asked to investigate. Does the country have a treaty with Australia and is it a member of the United Nations? Are there any trade sanctions or embargoes against it? Summarise ideas you have read about from sources located. This means reading through slabs of information you've found, choosing the most important parts and then putting those opinions in your own words, but it should be in a much briefer form. You can quote what has been said about the topic, but make sure to explain why you did so. Check with your teacher on how to correctly site your sources. This has been explained in previous Inquiry classes, so now you need to strive for accuracy when setting the bibliography out.
 * Year 7 Geography – Asia Pacific Region **
 * Scenario: ** You have been asked by the Commissioner of International Trade to compile information on a wiki that compares a country in the Asia Pacific region to Australia. You will collaborate with someone else in the department to pair and share the information, draw maps and images that show your interpretation of the research on pbworks.com compar ing t he attributes of both countries. If you have problems accessing the web site, then you need to compile a booklet instead.
 * Project: ** There are current and prospective trade deals to consider: mining, tourism, agricultural, pharmaceuticals, technological, educational, and industrial products or services to exchange. Consideration should be given to landforms, weather patterns, key industries, population distribution, human patterns and land usage . Provide maps using BOLTSS.
 * Managing your personal learning: ** You should keep a log of work you've done at home in your exercise book that shows how much time you spent doing this work. Bring information and coloured images in with you to paste into your booklet during class time. You will be given one period of class time during the final week, the due date to put your presentation together in the presence of your teacher.



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