UNIT 1 CHANGING PHYSICAL ENVIRONMENTS

UNIT 1 CHANGING PHYSICAL ENVIRONMENTS http://www.countercurrents.org/leahy071007.htm “There are trees and lawns in Nome (Alaska) now,” said Patricia Cochran, chair of the Inuit Circumpolar Council. “I never thought I’d see trees growing on the tundra,” Cochran said about her hometown, which lies on the Bering Sea and was once too cold for trees to grow. “Beavers are overrunning the area now that there is food for them. They are even in Barrow, north of the Arctic Circle,” she told IPS from her office in Anchorage.

UNIT 1 CHANGING PHYSICAL ENVIRONMENTS Students could gain more by an overview of variations due to economic development, location and physical characteristics of an area.

UNIT 1 CHANGING PHYSICAL ENVIRONMENTS What strategies can be used to address climate change

UNIT 1 CHANGING PHYSICAL ENVIRONMENTS

UNIT 1 CHANGING PHYSICAL ENVIRONMENTS How successful have strategies been in tackling climate change? A critical review of the strategies

ASSESSMENT

ASSESSMENT Guiding factors • Assessment Objectives set by QCA • Specification content • Provide opportunities for the candidates to show what they know and understand. • Open questions • Simplicity of structure • Choice where appropriate

ASSESSMENT

UNIT 1 CHANGING PHYSICAL ENVIRONMENTS

UNIT 1 CHANGING PHYSICAL ENVIRONMENTS

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Changing Urban Environments

Physical Science Unit 1

Unit 1: Physical Geography

Unit 1: Introducing Physical Geography

Addressing Obesity By Changing Environments

Changing Environments

Unit 1 – Topic 2 – Changing Climates

Physical Science Unit 1

Changing urban environments – the essentials

VCE Physical Education Unit 1

Unit 1: Physical Geography

Physical Environments Earth Systems

Unit 2, Outcome 1 DISCOVERING OUTDOOR ENVIRONMENTS

Changing Rural Environments:

HIGHER GEOGRAPHY PHYSICAL ENVIRONMENTS

Unit 1: Physical Geography

Unit 1 Physical Geography

Changing Urban Environments

Learning Unit 1: Physical Environment