Getting Started

This CBA is a structured inquiry process that requires you to:

• Ask questions

• Gather data

• Evaluate and interpret your findings

• Make conclusions

• Present information

You will be preparing a response to a geographical event that shows engagement with the key geographical questions of who, what, where, when, how and why

Identify recent events of geographical significance in the media that interest you.

• Think of the 'Geography in the News' events that you have studied in your textbook for inspiration and the topics you most enjoyed learning about

• Your media sources can be local, national or international. They can come from a variety of sources, eg. print media, videos, tv reports.

• What is important is that the event has appeared in the media.

Click on the links below for samples of news reports on geographical events

Now complete student task #1 in your learning log

Now that you have chosen your geographical event, you must give your CBA a title.

Your title should be relevant to your chosen topic.

Use the drop down tabs below to see examples of titles.

Discuss your ideas with your teacher

Now complete student task #2 in your learning log

Success criteria are the measures used to determine whether (and to what extent) you have met your learning intentions.

You should consider the following:

• What you want to learn from your CBA

• What you hope to achieve from the process

• How your CBA will link to the Junior Cycle Geography specification

• Your success criteria should be achievable but should also be representative of 'good' work.

Now complete student task #3 in your learning log

This CBA gives you the opportunity to be creative in terms of the format of your CBA

You should choose whichever format you feel will best represent your data.

The following are some examples of how you could present your work:

• Written form (a report or media article)

• Digital form (such as a blog, webpage or slide presentation)

• Visual form (a graphic presentation or a display)

• Audio form (a podcast or a voice-over)

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Discuss any other ideas you may have with your teacher!

Now complete student task #4 in your learning log

• You should use a wide range of sources to learn as much as possible about your chosen geographical event.

• It is important to not rely on articles from one type of website or media outlet.

• Wikipedia is not a media source but you may use it to help you locate media sources by going to the references tab at the bottom of the webpage

• Search engines such as Carrot² and DuckDuckGo are safe and student friendly (links below)

• The Gathering data/Research page in Section 2: Completing the CBA will assist you in your research.

• You are encouraged to draw on as many geographical skills that are applicable to the your response through the CBA process.

• You should demonstrate the interactions, interconnections and implications active in your chosen geographical event

• To investigate the key geographical questions identified, you must engage in research from a variety of sources to develop information that will inform responses and conclusions

• You must interpret and organise your research to demonstrate how your response has been informed

• You should analyse your research findings to prepare your response addressing how the media source relates to a geographical process, pattern and system, and why it is geographically significant