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Hi Team Tourism,
Our first assessment will be 18243: Demonstrate knowledge of world travel geography outside New Zealand. In this unit standard you will get to know some of the most significant destinations for world tourism. You will need to be able to locate countries and cities and describe attractions in them.

We will be getting fancy and using Google Earth for it.

So today we will start finding out what Google Earth can do.Your task over the next couple of days is to create a Google Earth Folder of some places important to you. It may be a collection of very local places, or other parts of New Zealand, or even over seas. Whatever places you choose, you need to include the following elements:

Before we start looking at the various processes that cause volcanic hazards, I would like to see what you know already.In pairs, you are to construct an answer that uses all of the following words.

Hi everybody!This is the site where Mr Cranston’s classes can work together to further understand the Real World.Welcom to:11 Geography13 Tourism10 MKE10 WYN

Try your luck at the following games:

• Electrocity
• Free Poverty
• Free Rice (click subjects for different categories)
• Purpose Games

Recently, we have been looking into the Rwanda conflict of 1994. We were all pretty moved about what happened and the lack of international support. Unfortunately, there is a very similar conflict taking place right now. Your task is to find out about the crisis in Darfur.You will need to create a voicethread about (Here is an example of a voicethread to: Click here):

• Where the conflict is occuring (needs to include a map and a description)
• What is happening in the conflict
• Why the conflict is happening
• 8 Key facts about the conflict.

This is a very sensitive issue and you will need a mature and respectful approach. You final product will be fully public - people who actually live in Darfur and their relatives may see this! - so it is very important that your material is accurate and not too graphic. It should be appropriate for a Year 9 Social Studies teacher to show their class.Here are some videos that will help you understand the Darfur conflict:

1. PBS Frontline: On our watch (8 chapters, about 5mins each)
2. PBS Frontline: Interactive diagram about the groups involved
3. In Darfur, my camera was not enough

• (KTV works at school only): Click here
• Click here for Youtube version

Here is a finished example, Thank You Caleb

Use your research skills to find out what each of the following terms mean, and then write a paragraph to explain how they relate to World War One.

• Alliance
• Armistice
• Entente
• Lusitania
• Propaganda
• Shellshock
• Somme

Create your answers in “Word” and then copy and paste your answers as a comment to this postWhen you have completed the above task, you may learn what conditions were like in the trenches by playing tis game. Click here. It is mainly reading to begin with, but eventually gets into lots of decision-making.