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GTAV AC:G Y7 - Water in the world
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Examines the uses of water, how it's valued, the ways it connects places as it moves through the environment and its scarcity. Case studies: Australia, Asia, North Africa and/or West Asia.
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Flood waters swelled rivers along the Queensland-New South Wales border in early February 2013.
Geography Teachers' Association of Victoria Inc. (GTAV)'s insight:
CD - The causes, impacts and responses to an atmospheric or hydrological hazard.
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60 years ago the East Coast of England was hit by the worst sea storm of modern times. Here we take a look at what happened that evening, the 31st January 1953 and what has been done since to combat flood risk.
Geography Teachers' Association of Victoria Inc. (GTAV)'s insight:
CD - The causes, impacts and responses to an atmospheric or hydrological hazard.
Flood defences that have been built following the 1953 floods include the Thames Barrier in the Thames Estuary. The barrier is second largest tidal barrier in the World, after the Oosterhelderering Barrier in the Netherlands (which was also built in response to the 1953 floods). The barrier protects central London and the surrounding communities from exceptionally high tides and storm surges like the one experienced in 1953.
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Geography Teachers' Association of Victoria Inc. (GTAV)'s insight:
CD - The nature of water scarcity and ways of overcoming it, including studies drawn from Australia and West Asia and/or North Africa.
This site includes an animation to show how they harvest rain water at the Royal Exhibition Buildings in Melbourne.
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Aboriginal peoples along the Murray--Darling rivers in South-Eastern Australia say their river is sick and their country is dying. Ngarrindjeri Elder, Major ...
Geography Teachers' Association of Victoria Inc. (GTAV)'s insight:
CD - The economic, cultural, spiritual and aesthetic value of water for people, including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples and peoples of the Asia region.
Ngarrindjeri Elder, Major Sumner, brought people together to dance and heal the spirit of the river for the River Country Spirit Ceremony.
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Water Cycles is an iPhone game. In this educational, family-friendly title, players will learn about pollution, ecology, and water quality.
Geography Teachers' Association of Victoria Inc. (GTAV)'s insight:
CD - The ways that flows of water connect places as it moves through the environment and the way this affects places.
Players will guide water from the mountains to the sea, through cities, towns, crop fields, forests, farms, marshes and factories. As the water is moved, and it will get dirty and pollute the groundwater. Your goal is to carry the largest possible amount of water to each waypoint in the game, while keeping it as clean as possible.
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The "Wrong Climate for Damming Rivers," with Right Livelihood Award Winner Nnimmo Bassey, explores the impacts of climate change and hydropower on the world'...
Geography Teachers' Association of Victoria Inc. (GTAV)'s insight:
CD - The causes, impacts and responses to an atmospheric or hydrological hazard.
This video shows how something like a dam, which one might think is a positive agent for change can have a massive negative impact upon the people in surrounding areas and the environment in general. Something such as evaporation in the pooled water reducing available drinking water is something which is easy to misunderstand, but is a real threat in areas which have drinking water issues, such as Sub-Saharan Africa. The damming of rivers also deprives down stream areas of the water they rely upon. This video is a good introduction to these kinds of ideas, and many others.
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the Blog of the Environmental Change and Security Program
Geography Teachers' Association of Victoria Inc. (GTAV)'s insight:
CD - The nature of water scarcity and ways of overcoming it, including studies drawn from Australia and West Asia and/or North Africa.
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Fresh water accounts for only 2.5% of Earth's water, yet it is vital for human civilization. What are our sources of fresh water? In the first of a two part series on fresh water, Christiana Z. Peppard breaks the numbers down and discusses who is using it and to what ends.
Geography Teachers' Association of Victoria Inc. (GTAV)'s insight:
CD - The classification of environmental resources and the forms that water takes as a resource.
Zoe Pyke's curator insight,
August 27, 2013 5:16 AM
TED talks are a great way to obtain information in generally short bursts. This clip is only 3 1/2 minutes long so easily watchable by younger studnets without them losing interest.
It could be used as an engaging way to start a unit on water and water usage.
The clip uses language that is understanable and graphics that make the information clearer and easier to digest as well as being something interesting to watch.
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Geography Teachers' Association of Victoria Inc. (GTAV)'s insight:
This activity incorporates many content descriptors. It was written for a Year 9-10 audience but could easily be modified (if needed) for Year 7s.
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Geography Teachers' Association of Victoria Inc. (GTAV)'s insight:
CD - The classification of environmental resources and the forms that water takes as a resource.
This interactive map documents where 443 million people around the world get their water (although the United States data is by far the most extensive). Most people can't answer this question. A recent poll by The Nature Conservancy discoverd that 77% of Americans (not on private well water) don't know where their water comes from, they just drink it. This link has videos, infographics and suggestions to promote cleaner water. This is also a fabulous example of an embedded map using ArcGIS Online to share geospatial data with a wider audience.
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House break-ins to steal water are becoming increasingly common in Nairobi’s slums, police say
Geography Teachers' Association of Victoria Inc. (GTAV)'s insight:
CD - The nature of water scarcity and ways of overcoming it, including studies drawn from Australia and West Asia and/or North Africa.
Nairobi, Kenya – As droughts become more frequent and water shortages worsen, Kenya is seeing an increase in water thefts and other water-related crime, police records show.
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Short documentary style film delivering key UK Government messages about Climate Change in Bangladesh for presentation for the Department for International D...
Geography Teachers' Association of Victoria Inc. (GTAV)'s insight:
CD - The causes, impacts and responses to an atmospheric or hydrological hazard.
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CD - The classification of environmental resources and the forms that water takes as a resource.
CD - The ways that flows of water connect places as it moves through the environment and the way this affects places.
CD - The nature of water scarcity and ways of overcoming it, including studies drawn from Australia and West Asia and/or North Africa.
A fantastic Study Guide with boxes for students to type in their responses and sign digitally as a pdf to send to their teacher. Nice resource with lots of background, data, graphics and information.