Floods: Avoidable or Inevitable? - Geography
Courses Description
Head of Pathway: Mr G. Van den Hoeven.
You will learn about the water cycle, how floods are made worse, how it affects Auckland, and what can be done to help lessen these effects.
In this course you will read and make maps, design and conduct your own research gathering, take and annotate photographs, think about perspectives, and make judgements about what the best solutions are. This will prepare you for University level geography where it is expected that you will know how to gather, analyse and reflect on data.
You will like this course if you like field trips, thinking about how cities work and how to make them better, and weighing up different perspectives and solutions.
Credit Information
You will be assessed in this course through all or a selection of the standards listed below.
External
NZQA Info
Geography 3.1 - Demonstrate understanding of how interacting natural processes shape a New Zealand geographic environment
NZQA Info
Geography 3.6 - Analyse aspects of a contemporary geographic issue
Disclaimer
The standards offered are correct at the time of writing. These are subject to change depending on student selections.
We endeavour to run all courses but are subject to minimise class sizes. Maximum class sizes apply. Once a course is full alternative selections are needed.
Course context or content may change by the start of the year.
Once a student makes their selections and confirms these, any changes must be accompanied by a letter of support from Whanau and are subject to available spaces in courses.
All Junior Bilingual students must select the literacy and numeracy modules in the language of their pathway each trimester and one other integrated language module (3 out of 4 of their modules must be bilingual).
All senior Bilingual students must take all modules available in the language of their pathway.