ETL501 Topic 1 Information Resource

Information Resource

A new and inexperienced geography teacher has arrived in your school and has been given the task of teaching a year 7 class on rainforests as part of the Global Environments Focus Area. List 3 key types of information this teacher might need and suggest a source of information

• Location and Size of Rainforests- Google Earth mapping activity
• Characteristics of rainforest ecosystem- Earth Observatory (NASA) Biome, Global Maps
• Australian Rainforests & Wildlife- Australian Government Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry www.daff.gov.au Australian forest profiles. www.arf.net.au. www.rainforest.org.au
• Comparison of Local and Global Rainforest

Comment From Barbra:

Think carefully about readability of your websites, remembering that you will have some students in Year 7 who may still be classed as developing readers. 

Readability tools
http://www.read-able.com/
http://juicystudio.com/services/readability.php
http://www.readability-score.com/

I think I was looking at the latter three sites as resources for the teacher to use as starting points for their knowledge and to structure activities off rather than send students directly there. I tend to use government sites like the forestry website with my VCE geography students.