Week 35
Students explained how the combustion engine car is unsustainable, identified sustainable modes of transport, and critically evaluated a transport case study
Week 34
Students explored how solar energy and designed a building that creates it's own energy
Week 33
Students designed a sharing app and began to explore how energy will be supplied in the city of the future
Week 32
Students explored the digital technology within the city - including the shared economy
Week 31
Students explored the built environment of a city
Week 30
Students started their new topic "designing the city of the future" - They began with the concept of the circular economy
Week 29
Students presented their ideas on how to reduce greenhouse gases in the atmosphere. Arief and Enson was voted best in 9A with an afforestation and biomass, while Shane was voted best in 9M with his idea on Nuclear Fusion
Week 28
We finished the term with a quiz
Week 27
Students began designing strategies to reduce the amount of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere
Week 26
Students explored mitigation strategies for climate change
Week 25
Students completed their projects on greenhouse gas emissions
Week 24
Students explored why the climate is getting warmer, analysing news articles and carefully selecting evidence for humans enhancing the greenhouse effect
Week 23
Students investigated various evidence for climate change. They were given 45 minutes to research, and then present on either glacier retreat, ice core analysis, dendrochronology and palyonology
Week 22
Students analysed how Tibetans have adapted to live at high altitude, and explored the highest settlements in the world
Week 21
Students explained why it gets colder as you get higher, they identified how coniferous trees are adapted to high altitudes, and began to evaluate the lives of people at high altitude
Week 20
Students explored opportunities and challenges for development in Alaska. They did this by playing a game where they chose a location based on whether they think their is an economic opportunity there or not.
Week 19
Students investigated why the northern latitudes are so cold and how plants have adapted this environment
Week 18
Students worked at various stations to explain the formation, location, effects, and responses to tropical storms
Week 17
We described the conditions of drought and how these affect people and animals. Students then had 20 mins to prepare a pitch for a strategy to help cope with drought
Week 16
We explained why certain places have extreme weather
Week 15
We began our new topic on "Extreme Weather", by describing population density and identifying where the most extreme places on the planet are
Week 13
Students completed their research, explaining how their strategies would be sustainable, and how they would measure success
Week 12
Continuing their research, students identified appropriate strategies for helping their chosen communities
Week 11
Students conducted their own research into helping achieve the Sustainable Development Goals. They started by identifying which goals they wanted to achieve and what communities they wanted to help
Week 10
We investigated a case study in Malawi of farmers receiving help from the UN as part of the Sustainable Development Goals
Week 8/9
We explored global inequality by describing graphs
Week 7
We explored the UN's Sustainable Development Goals
Week 6
We critically evaluated the cultural factors associated with a country that focuses on prospering economically
Week 5
We explained why some countries are poor and critically evaluated economic indicators
Week 3 and 4 We looked at development indicators and evaluated their use in measuring development
Week 2
We explored the definition of sustainable development, and identified differences between countries