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Landscapes and Landforms wine makin TEACHING RESOURCES and STUDENT ACTIVITIES … for online The Geography Teachers Association and classroom learning of NSW & ACT Inc. Volume 52 No 2 2020 IN THIS ISSUE: STAGE 4: Teacher Guide STAGE 4: LANDSCAPE AND LANDFORMS Snapshot 1 : Geomorphic processes Snapshot 2 : Landscape diversity and change Snapshot 3: Meandering Rivers Snapshot 4: Earthquakes Canada 1: Major landforms, geomorphic processes & geomorphic hazards Canada 2: Unique landforms & geomorphic processes Canada 3: Landscape values & protection STAGE 4: WATER IN THE WORLD Snapshot: Water cycle processes & connections Canada 4: Water resources & hazards Canada 5: The Bow River STAGE 4: Virtual Fieldwork STAGE 4: Skills Stimulus STAGE 5: Teacher Guide STAGE 5: SUSTAINABLE BIOMES Snapshot: Biomes & their productivity Pollinators, bees & food Grassland Biomes STAGE 5: ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE Tundra Investigative Study Sydney Harbour Estuary STAGE 5: Virtual Fieldwork STAGE 5: Skills Stimulus CAREERS Careers in Geography Stages 4 and 5 Physical geography edition PROJECTS • REPORTS • RESOURCES • ARTICLES • REVIEWS EXECUTIVE 2020 President Susan Caldis Vice Presidents Lorraine Chaffer Sharon McLean Alexandria Warnock Honorary Treasurer Grant Kleeman Councillors OFFICE OF THE GEOGRAPHY TEACHERS’ Paul Batten ASSOCIATION OF NEW SOUTH WALES Karen Bowden ABN 59246850128 Drew Collins Address: 67–71 St Hilliers Rd, Auburn NSW 2141 Michael da Roza (ACT representative) Postal Address: PO Box 699 Lidcombe NSW 1825, Australia Catherine Donnelly Telephone: (02) 9716 0378, Fax: (02) 9564 2342 Adrian Harrison Email: [email protected] Keith Hopkins Website: www.gtansw.org.au David Latimer John Lewis ANNUAL MEMBERSHIP (Subscriptions include GST) Alex Pentz Personal membership $90.00 Martin Pluss Corporate membership (school, department or business) $200.00 David Proctor Concessional membership (retiree, part-time teacher or student) $40.00 Katerina Stojanovski Primary corporate membership free Louise Swanson Co-opted members Paul Alger Grace Larobina John Petts Public Officer Louise Swanson Front cover: Hot air ballooning over Cappadocia, Turkey. Source: Shutterstock Back cover: Hot air balloon. Source: L.Chaffer GEOGRAPHY BULLETIN Editor The Geography Bulletin is a quarterly journal of The Geography Teachers’ Association of New South Wales. The ‘Bulletin’ embraces those natural and human phenomena Lorraine Chaffer which fashion the character of the Earth’s surface. In addition to this it sees Geography Articles and letters should be sent to the Editor: as incorporating ‘issues’ which confront the discipline and its students. The Geography Lorraine Chaffer Bulletin is designed to serve teachers and students of Geography. The journal has a specific role in providing material to help meet the requirements of the Geography Email: [email protected] syllabuses. As an evolving journal the Geography Bulletin attempts to satisfy the requirements of a broad readership and in so doing improve its service to teachers. Those individuals wishing to contribute to the publication are directed to the ‘Advice Design and layout: to contributors’ inside the back cover. Jill Sillar, Professional Teachers’ Council NSW [email protected] © Copyright 2020 Geography Teachers’ Association of New South Wales Inc. Unless otherwise indicated in an article, non-profit organisations such ISSN 0156-9236 as schools and universities may make up to 30 photocopies of any article in this journal without obtaining further permission. Volume 52, No2 2020 EDITOR: Lorraine Chaffer EDITORIAL.............................................................................................................................................................2 PRESIDENTS REPORT ......................................................................................................................................4 Science meets Parliament; Geography meets STEM ............................................................5 STAGE 4: Teacher Guide ...........................................................................................................................7 STAGE 4: LANDSCAPE AND LANDFORMS Snapshot 1: Geomorphic processes ................................................................................................8 Snapshot 2: Landscape diversity and change ........................................................................13 Snapshot 3: Meandering Rivers .......................................................................................................19 Snapshot 4: Earthquakes .....................................................................................................................24 Canada 1: Major landforms, geomorphic processes & geomorphic hazards .........25 Canada 2: Unique landforms and geomorphic processes ......................................30 Canada 3: Landscape values and protection ..........................................................................35 STAGE 4: WATER IN THE WORLD Snapshot: Water cycle processes and connections ............................................................37 Canada 4: Water resources and hazards .....................................................................................40 Canada 5: The Bow River ......................................................................................................................46 Virtual Fieldwork: NSW EZEC programs for Stage 4 ................................................................ 54 Virtual Fieldwork: Auseco ........................................................................................................................ 57 STAGE 4: Skills Stimulus ............................................................................................................................. 58 STAGE 5: Teacher Guide ........................................................................................................................ 63 STAGE 5: SUSTAINABLE BIOMES Snapshot: Biomes and their productivity .................................................................................. 64 Pollinators, bees and food................................................................................................................... 68 Grassland Biomes ..................................................................................................................................... 70 STAGE 5: ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE Tundra Investigative Study ................................................................................................................ 73 Sydney Harbour Estuary ...................................................................................................................... 83 STAGE 5: Virtual Fieldwork ....................................................................................................................... 90 STAGE 5: Skills Stimulus ............................................................................................................................. 92 CAREERS Careers with geography ...................................................................................................................... 96 ARTHUR PHILLIP AWARD WINNERS ................................................................................................ 98 ADVICE TO CONTRIBUTORS ...............................................................................................................101 Geography Bulletin Vol 52, No 2 2020 1 EDITORIAL Welcome to Edition 2 of the Geography Bulletin for 2020. This is a special edition that is taking on a different format due to the demands on teachers resulting from interruptions to the delivery of lessons to students as a result of COVID-19. The aim is to make existing bulletin resources more useable by turning them into lesson sized or project-based activities with an immediate classroom or online use that does not increase teacher workload. The edition will consist of three components to provide resources that can be used for online and in class lessons with minimal teacher effort. • The Geography Bulletin containing condensed and adapted articles for Stage 4 & 5 topics from previous editions. There will be some new material. • A Geography Bulletin Supplement containing Blackline Masters student activities suited to hard copy and digital use. • Student activities in PPT format that can be imported into school online delivery methods such as Flipcharts and Google Classroom. These are directed at students e.g. In this activity/lesson you will …. Example of a condensed and adapted article Example of activities in PPT format GTANSW & ACT acknowledge the wonderful work being done by the NSW Environmental and Zoo Education Centres in supporting teachers during this time by creating virtual resources for schools to support teaching and learning from home and in the classroom. The centres have given free access to Geography teaching and learning resources and developed virtual fieldwork activities until normal fieldwork activities can resume. These resources will be available to teachers registering for EZEC programs after schools and fieldwork activities return to normal. A selection of programs run by EZEC’s across the state with links to the free access resources are included in this edition. An interactive map showing locations and details of the 25 NSW Department of Lorraine Chaffer, Editor 2 Geography Bulletin Vol 52, No 2 2020 Education Environmental and Zoo Education Centres (EZEC) can be found here https://www.google.com/maps/d/viewer?mid=153_82bL_
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