Topic: Year 7 Geography (Latitude & longitude)
Year Level 7
Author Tim Poga
Stage 1 – Desired Results
Established Goals:
S&E: Learning Area Outcome 2: Place and Space- understand that the interaction people have with places in which they live is shaped
by the location, patterns and processes associated with natural & built features.
HoM to be Developed:
Striving for Accuracy
Exploring Meaning of the HOM
Expanding Capacity for using the HOM
Increasing Alertness for the HOM
By the end of this unit students will be able to
give examples from their prior classroom
experience of times when they have strived for
accuracy.
By the end of this unit students will
be able to use the ‘One Step Back’
strategy to help them strive for
accuracy.
By the end of this unit of work students will be able to use the
cue of degree of consequence to recognize situations where it
is appropriate to Strive for Accuracy
Extending Values of the HOM
Building Commitment towards the HOM
By the end of this unit students will be able to clearly connect their
ability to Strive for Accuracy to both the quality of their work and the
grade awarded.
By the end of this unit of work students will be able to evaluate their use of Striving for
Accuracy using reflective prompt provided by the teacher and drawing on examples from
their work.
Understandings about the content:
Essential Questions about the content:
Students will understand that…
Latitude and longitude are important mapping tools which can be
used to accurately locate places in the world.
Latitude can be used to describe the global pattern of climate.
Longitude can be used to explain world time zones.
What is latitude and longitude?
How can latitude and longitude be used to accurately locate places
on a map.
What problems might occur if a place is inaccurately located?
Knowledge about the content
Skills required of the content
Students will know…
Students Will be able to…
Key terms: map, latitude, longitude, coordinates.
Identify the continents
Locate places using latitude and longitude.
Stage 2 – Assessment Evidence
Performance Tasks:
Other Evidence:
Your task is to identify and list the latitude and longitude of the
following locations. You are a flight planner for an air cargo
company who uses the ‘One Step Back’ for checking their work.
Your clients are expecting you to drop off cargo at each of these
locations. Your challenge is to drop his cargo off to the exact
locations given or your company will lose money. You will need to
continuously travel east or west around the globe so you will need
to reorganize the list of locations into a sequence which allow them
to be travelled to by flying continually east or west. For each degree
of latitude or longitude you are out on each location, your company
looses $1000 of profit.
You will need to check your flight plan against the ‘Perfect Plan’
your teacher will give you in order to determine how successful you
are.
Anecdotal evidence from class activities.
Stage 3 – Learning Plan
Learning Activities:
Teaching Habits activity: What does it mean to strive for accuracy? Use a ‘what does this mean to you’ activity and word splash.
Skill set development activity: Teach the ‘One step back’ strategy as a way of checking student’s checking their own work. This can be done through a
cooking analogy; once an ingredient has been added to a recipe how might a cook take one step back and double check they have just done the right thing?
What examples can the students give from their own experience when they have done this? (And what did it mean when they realised they were right or wrong
in the previous step they took?)
Direct the use of the Habit activities:
Students are introduced to the concepts of latitude and longitude.
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Students are introduced to the connection between latitude and the global pattern of climate. |
These need to be in terms of why
Students are introduced to the connection between longitude and world time zones.
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accuracy is important.
Task Setting activities:
Students complete a series of increasingly difficult mapping activities using latitude and longitude, latitude and climate, longitude and time zones. These should
These need to be not only in terms of why accuracy is important but the impact of inaccuracy.