Grade 9 Regions - Grade 11 The Best Job in the World

Grade 9 - Political Regions

Region: an area with unique characteristics.

Yesterday we:
1. reviewed the continents and European political regions with a small quiz. For students who were absent or not present last week when we learned this material, we will retest this material again at a later date.
2. Looked at the political regions within Canada by producing a hand drawn political map of Canada.

the six components that must be included on all maps include:
TITLE
BORDER OR FRAME
SCALE
NORTH ARROW
LEGEND OR LABELS
NAME

The map we worked on included Canada's 10 provinces, 3 territories and the capital cities associated  with these political regions, including Ottawa, Canada's capital.

You will be tested on this material on Friday.

Today we will watch and develop notes on the film Physical Geography of Canada which looks at Canada's Landform Regions.

Western Cordillera
Interior Plains
Great Lakes St. Lawrence Lowlands
Appalachians
Arctic Canada
           ARCTIC SUB REGIONS
         Innuitians
         Arctic Canadian Shield
         Hudson Bay Lowlands
         Arctic Lowlands

Tomorrow we will map these regions.

Grade 11 - The Best Job in the World

In January 2009 Tourism Queensland embarked on a global search to find an Island Caretaker to explore the Islands of the Great Barrier Reef in Queensland Australia and report back to the world about their experiences. 

On offer was a salary of AUD $150,000 for a six month position with live in luxury accommodation on Hamilton Island and the opportunity to explore all that the region has to offer.



Over 34,000 would-be caretakers from Azerbaijan to Zimbabwe and everywhere in between uploaded a 60-second video showing their creativity and skills. From celebrities, writers, tour guides, environmentalists, students, to mums, dads and retirees everyone was vying for the Best Job in the World.
A shortlist of 50 applicants from 22 countries were narrowed down to a final 16, 15 whom were chosen by Tourism Queensland, and the 16th a ’wild card’ applicant Claire Wang from Taiwan chosen by popular vote.



In class we reviewed the final 16 submissions and undertook  a process to select the best submission.

A link to the video submissions is found below.

Your culminating project this year is to develop a country BLOG, similar to the "Best Job in the World" blog that profiles Hamilton Island off the Great Barrier Reef in Australia. Your task is to construct a BLOG  that Profiles a country of your choice throughout the semester. At the start of each week you will be given a topic that you will be required to discuss or write about in your BLOG that relates to your country of choice.

Today you will set up your BLOG, select a country and write in your BLOG why you selected the country you did. This submission is reflective in nature. Take some inspiration from the Video presentations above.



Today's Skill development:  Building a personal WebSite  _  a BLOG.