Unit 3 - Holiday Homework (Learning Resources)

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The Headstart information will assist you in a successful start for 2015 and your OES studies throughout the year. The year is about consistency!

Please make a mental note of the following:

Proper Preperation Prevents Poor Performance

Proper Planning & Preperation Prevents Poor Performance

Follow the link to the Study Design Information and take some time to read the areas that we'll be looking at over the next 12 months. Once you have read the Study Design Information, open the new text book and read from Page 133 to gain more of an understanding of the key content.

Read the report form the VCAA regarding the Study Design - they have broken down some of the key areas. Study Design Explained.

Headstart 2015

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Environmental Conflicts

During the summer holidays, you are to collect newspaper and magazine articles on 3 environmental conflicts in Australia.

You must include:

Cattle grazing in the High Country (Alpine National Park)
Development of more Marine National Parks along the Australian coastline
One of your choice

Instructions:

These are to be collected in a clear plastic file booklet and added to during the year

You must highlight or underline important statements/parts of the article
Make any notes under each article about the cases FOR and AGAINST the conflict and outline IF/HOW the conflict was resolved
Discuss these issues with your family and friends over the holidays
Record their thoughts on the conflicts
This work is to be handed in on the first class in 2014, it will be returned to you so that you can add to the articles during the year.
Please put your NAME and CLASS on the front of your clear plastic file.

State of the Environment

In a SCRAP BOOK, you are to collect newspaper and magazine articles on each of the following themes as described in the STATE OF THE ENVIRONMENT REPORT. You can include any of the above CURRENT environmental issues (eg the use of National Parks for building private tourist accommodation facilities) as these directly impact on the state of the environment. The themes are:

Atmosphere
Land
Biodiversity
Coasts and Oceans
Inland Waters
Cultural Heritage
Human Settlement

Instructions:

Allocate at least 15 pages per Theme above (you will fill them during the year)
You must have an initial 3 articles per theme
The articles MUST demonstrate a variety of views/sides + Background knowledge
These are to be glued onto a scrap book or media file
You must highlight or underline important statements/parts of the article
Make any notes under each article about how it relates to the theme
Discussion of your knowledge with your family and friends is really important for you to develop a logical and clear idea of the current state of each part of the environment
Record their feelings about these discussions
This work is to be handed in on the first class in 2014, it will be returned to you so that you can add to the articles during the year.
Please put your NAME and CLASS on the front of your scrap book/media file

Where to look – (the standard of your information is important – so consider WHERE you get your articles from.)

Magazines - National Geographic, Australian Geographic, G Magazine,, Wild Magazine, New Scientist, New Internationalist
TV programs - Catalyst (TV), Foreign Correspondent (TV), Behind the News (TV), Documentaries (TV + Film)
Motion picture films - Sampson + Delilah, An Inconvenient Truth, 10 Canoes, Rabbit Proof Fence, Pocahontas, Wall E, Marbo, Medicine Man, Avatar…
Newspapers – Age, Australian, Herald/Sun, Local (Melbourne Times + Leader)