A Brief Introduction to Geography

Map work

A Brief Outline

Students gain skills of reading the topographical maps and are able to apply it to their daily lives.

Students learn how to read atlas and topographical maps. They are taught how to identify settlement patterns, and find reasons for locations of facilities.

Battleship activity

At the start of the year, R4's Teacher, Ms Wang, let us play the game Battle Ship. Two students will place their 'ships' on squares without letting their partner know. Then, the students 'bomb' their partner's ships by calling out coordinates. This activity helped us familiarise ourselves with coordinates on a map and have fun at the same time

Image of a battle ship board --->

Rivers

A brief outline

Students learn about the hydrological cycle and its different processes. Students are taught about the river system and its different sections. This knowledge helps them to understand concepts.

Storybook project

Students gain knowledge of rivers through illustrating and creating their own stories. Each student writes a storybook and draws one page from there, helping students to visualize the river processes. They follow a storyline involving river systems and processes, thus gaining a deeper analysis of the processes of the hydrological cycle. Both Visual and Literary Arts are integrated into the project, where students learn the basic writing conventions (LA) and consider different ways to draw out and present their storybook page (VA).

<--- these are artworks done by two students, Ashley Leong (VA) and Kaira Chow (Theatre).

Drainage Basin activity

A drainage basin is the source of a river. At the start of the year, to help the students understand what a drainage basin is, R4's teacher, Ms Wang, gave the students a task to create a drainage basin using play dough. This activity gave the students a deeper understanding of the parts of a river.

<---- Sophie Liu and Kaira Chow constructing a drainage basin

Water Supply

A Brief Outline

In this topic, students are introduced to the concepts of water shortages, learning more about the situations currently happening in the world, and gaining a deeper knowledge of their own local water resources. They also learn the disadvantages of a high demand for water.

Water Management Project

This project helped students to better understand domestic causes and effects of water shortage. Students compared water consumption of two households by interviewing each household. This helped students to gain a better understanding of domestic activities that may affect water consumption, as well as help them familiarise themselves with graphs.

This shows Quek Chi-e's question and answer segment of the interview and Ashley Leong's graph ----->

Notes by Yoo-ri Kim

Notes by Kaira Chow

Energy Resources

A brief outline

Students were introduced to the use of fossil fuels and the causes and effects of their shortage. This knowledge helps us understand the ways energy shortage impacts us and how to avoid them .

Here are some pictures of notes students took throughout the chapter and slides used during lessons.

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