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Monthly Archives: October 2015

Wellbeing: India & Indicators

30 Friday Oct 2015

Posted by Mr B Toohey in 10GEO

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Review of India, and of indicators (of development, of well-being) used so far.

What are some you came across? What do they measure & why measure this?

How do they fit together…

Demographic Transition Model

Demographic Transition Model

More info:

Bhutan’s Gross National Happiness Index

China will get rich before it gets old (Foreign Affairs)

Detente

28 Wednesday Oct 2015

Posted by Mr B Toohey in 11HIS

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Context

Cold War in the 1960s

Overview of Detente

Détente (a French word meaning release from tension) is the name given to a period of improved relations between the United States and the Soviet Union that began tentatively in 1971 and took decisive form when President Richard M. Nixon visited the secretary-general of the Soviet Communist party, Leonid I. Brezhnev, in Moscow, May 1972.

Both countries stood to gain if trade could be increased and the danger of nuclear warfare reduced…

Read more at (and the above stolen from!) History.com

More detail:

Global Security – Cold War in the 1970s

CSU HSC Online – Detente

Office of the Historian (US Govt)
– Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty
– Strategic Arms Limitation Talks / Treaties (SALT I and II)
– Rapprochement with China (1972)
– Ending US Involvement in Vietnam

Foreign Affairs: Goodbye to Detente (1980)

Inequalities within one country

27 Tuesday Oct 2015

Posted by Mr B Toohey in 10GEO

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India is a classic example of vast differences in wealth in a single country:

To what extent have the following contributed to inequalities within India?

Start with the information from the text, and if your reading speed is reasonably fast (!) find at least one other source. If you are a slower reader, stick with just the textbook. (Reading speed, not laziness level!)

– British colonialism (textbook)
– caste system (textbook)
– population growth (textbook)

Write one paragraph on each. (70-150 words)

Colonialism and inequality … cont’d

26 Monday Oct 2015

Posted by Mr B Toohey in 10GEO

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(Check progress on posters…)

Time for continuing with posters

‘Discussion’ on learned helplessness – it is easy to give up and say ‘I don’t understand’ and then do nothing… Take responsibility for your learning. Find out. Try.

Trade: historical and recent

26 Monday Oct 2015

Posted by Mr B Toohey in 9HUMS

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Five Great Trade Routes

http://frontiermarketstrategy.com/2013/02/24/five-key-trade-routes-from-history/

Small groups:
Take one each of

  1. The Silk Road
  2. British-Indian Spice Route
  3. Trans-Saharan Trade
  4. Saudi-US Oil
  5. Incense Route

Use at least one different source per group member (in addition to the introductory site above) to explain this trade route. You should tell us when this route existed, what caused it to start and finish, how did it impact on the countries involved and show us the route on a map.

‘Place’ (9Pope Tues & Wed)

20 Tuesday Oct 2015

Posted by Mr B Toohey in 9HUMS

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As a geographical concept, Place is fundamental to how we think about ourselves and our world.

Place

Quick Questions (answer in a new DOC in your shared Google Drive: call it Place – Quick Questions)
Name 10 places (can be country, city, suburb, building, park etc)
What word/s do you immediately think of when you hear this place (eg Adelaide Oval – cricket; Glenelg – beach; Antarctica – penguins, Grandma’s house – cheesecake etc.) Label each as ‘positive’, ‘negative’ or ‘neutral’ depending on how you think about it (Grandma’s cheesecake = positive!)

List as much as you can think of for each of these places:
New York, London, Tokyo, Germany, Russia, Sudan, China, Indonesia, Melbourne
What is similar for all/many of these?
How is it different to what you know about Adelaide?
What sorts of factors determine someone’s feeling about a place? Could different people feel completely different about the same place? How/why? Give an example.

Do these feelings about place determine how we interact with them?

Would you love to travel to any of those places above? Would you not travel to any? Why/ not?

If you have time, start this – otherwise we will do it tomorrow

Activity – do this as a New Doc in your shared Google Drive (call it “Place – Around the world trip”). 

You have won an around the world trip to 20 destinations anywhere in the world for you and 3 others. (You should take parent/s and sibling/s as first priority – if you are an only child, then you can take a friend (an actual friend – name them).) Each person should have at least 5 destinations that they are excited to go to (eg Dad is NOT excited about shopping anywhere) – there can be multiple people

For each destination, you need to:

  1. Name the place
  2. Provide photo/s and
  3. a short explanation of why you chose it (should include who is excited to go there and why)

Create a map (eg Google mymaps, or other is ok) and tag each place. Insert the map to your page.

Colonialism and inequality

20 Tuesday Oct 2015

Posted by Mr B Toohey in 10GEO

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Still sick – sorry

Create a poster which examines the extent that colonialism is linked to global inequality.

Compare one of the European imperial powers (Britain, France, Spain, Portugal) with six of their previous colonies across a range of indicators. You should consider using the indicators you defined yesterday (and others), the OECD Better Life Index, the Population Data Sheet and any other relevant sources.

This may be expressed in any form, but some recommendations:
– change the size of your document to A3 or bigger (A4 will be too small). You might also consider a Prezi or other online tool you have previously used.
– include a map of Empire and its colonies
– use tables, a variety of graphs, photos, quotes etc

Thanks

BT

‘Place’ (9Dewhirst: Mon M4-5)

19 Monday Oct 2015

Posted by Mr B Toohey in 9HUMS

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As a geographical concept, Place is fundamental to how we think about ourselves and our world.

Place

Quick Questions (answer in your wordpress blog)
Name 10 places (can be country, city, suburb, building, park etc)
What word/s do you immediately think of when you hear this place (eg Adelaide Oval – cricket; Glenelg – beach; Antarctica – penguins, Grandma’s house – cheesecake etc.) Label each as ‘positive’, ‘negative’ or ‘neutral’ depending on how you think about it (Grandma’s cheesecake = positive!)

List as much as you can think of for each of these places:
New York, London, Tokyo, Germany, Russia, Sudan, China, Indonesia, Melbourne
What is similar for all/many of these?
How is it different to what you know about Adelaide?
What sorts of factors determine someone’s feeling about a place? Could different people feel completely different about the same place? How/why? Give an example.

Do these feelings about place determine how we interact with them?

Would you love to travel to any of those places above? Would you not travel to any? Why/ not?

Activity – do this as a New Page in your WordPress site. Provide a link in your blog post of today.

You have won an around the world trip to 20 destinations anywhere in the world for you and 3 others. (You should take parent/s and sibling/s as first priority – if you are an only child, then you can take a friend (an actual friend – name them).) Each person should have at least 5 destinations that they are excited to go to (eg Dad is NOT excited about shopping anywhere) – there can be multiple people

For each destination, you need to:

  1. Name the place
  2. Provide photo/s and
  3. a short explanation of why you chose it (should include who is excited to go there and why)

Create a map (eg Google mymaps, or other is ok) and tag each place. Insert the map to your page.

OECD Better Life Index

19 Monday Oct 2015

Posted by Mr B Toohey in 10GEO

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Sorry, I’m sick today, but I’m sure you don’t want my cold… 

Open this document:

Geographies of Global Wellbeing – GTAV

Copy the terms in the yellow box on page 4 into your notes (Indicator, GDP, GDP per capita, GNI, Life expectancy, HDI)

What is ‘Purchasing Power Parity’? (p.3)

Read the ‘Over to you’ instructions on p.5 and then do ‘Student Activity’ questions on p.6 (Link is http://www.oecdbetterlifeindex.org/)

Thanks

Geographies of Interconnection

16 Friday Oct 2015

Posted by Mr B Toohey in 9HUMS

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Factual
How do people perceive places?
How do people connect to different people and places?
How does trade connect people and places?

Conceptual
Who wins and loses in a globalised world?
How important is the formation of networks in a globalised world?

Debatable
Can the action of one person change the world?
Are people are more concerned with about cheap consumer goods than labour exploitation?

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