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Cyclone Larry 2006
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Price: AUD $44.00 Incl GST
A project to compliment your junior hazards unit in SOSE or Geography. This is a project that you can build on in the coming cyclone seasons. There are a number of math tasks in converting wind speeds in this unit.
Data has been obtained from the Unisys Weather website. An assessment piece is included which is a report.
Africa - Providing Aid Practical
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Price: AUD $44.00 Incl GST
This project allows teachers to introduce Year 9 or 10 students to a practical or stimulus response task for a globalisation unit in Geography. Data has been obtained from World Development Data, World Health Organisation and ESRI, The data sets are for the world so if you are interested in a different region of the world, all the data is available in the projects.
A project that could be developed into a senior stimulus response or practical assessment piece. The assessment piece with extra stimulus response material is available. A manipulated project is ready for use and a second project ready to be manipulated is available for students.
Natural Hazards in Australia
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Price: AUD $44.00 Incl GST
Hazards is a regularly taught unit in Australian schools. This unit allows students to track hazards and disasters in Australia on a monthly basis while examining the types and causes.
This unit also guides students to a reliable web site to obtain data and hotlink a document to the point of the hazard.
Recording World Hazards
Available late February 2007
Price: AUD $44.00 Incl GST
Hazards is a regularly taught unit in schools. This unit allows students to track hazards and disasters around the world on a monthly basis.
This unit also guides students to a reliable web site to obtain data and hotlink the document to the point of the hazard. Major Air Disaster and human hazards are new layers.
Ancient Egypt Today
This unit examines the impact of tourists on The Giza Pyramids. Students are to create a tourist management plan for the Giza Plateau and GIS their plan. They will then evaluate the environmental, social and economic impact of their plan.
Assessment - Practical
China - New Power, New Polluters
China's pollution problems have global consequences. This unit examines acid rain in China. Isoline maps can be created from the acid rain data in the project. This can then be compared with power stations, population densities and satellite images.
Assessment for this unit will be a practical exercise.
Bushfire Season 2006/07
Available February 2007
This unit tracks major bushfires in 2006/07 summer season. It also uses State of the Environment 2006 data to examine fuel reduction and bushfires.
The unit examines the factors that impact on bushfires from the latest research. Satellite images have been geo-referenced.
Assessment piece includes a Knowledge test.
Typhoon Season 2005/06
This unit tracks Typhoons over the 2005 and 2006 seasons. The 2005 season affected the coast of China severely while the 2006 season caused numerous problems in the Philippines. This unit will allow the students to track future typhoon seasons in one of the most active regions in the world.
H5N1 - Tracking Bird Flu
This unit examines historical influenza outbreaks around the world. It also uses the great World Health Organisation web site to obtain and plot Bird flu data, to understand the spread of this influenza.
The assessment piece will be a written report to the government including relevant maps.
A Chronicle of Cholera
This unit tracks the history of Cholera from 1997-2004. Using World Health Data this unit tracks the outbreaks of Cholera. It will also look at the history and possible solutions to slowing these outbreaks.
Nuclear or Not?
Available late February 2007
The mining industry is booming in Australia and debate regarding the construction of Nuclear power plants and new uranium mines continues to bounce around the media.
Australia is the second largest exporter of Uranium in the world next to Canada with only three working uranium mines.
John Howard has released the final report of the Government's review into nuclear energy, uranium mining and processing. The Australian institute of public policy has flagged fives sites in Australia for possible nuclear power plants.
This unit will examine the history and future of uranium in Australia.