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Notes on Translation
The electronic translation service on the York Region District School Board's website is hosted by Google Translate. The quality of the translation will vary in some of the languages offered by Google. Google Translate is a free service and currently offers translation in over 50 languages, although an impressive number, this does not capture all languages or dialects. The basic translation’s goal is to capture the general intention of the original English material.
The York Region District School Board does not guarantee the quality, accuracy or completeness of any translated information. Before you act on translated information, the Board encourages you to confirm any facts that are important to you and affect any decisions you may make.
The York Region District School Board is committed to parent, family and community engagement, and it is our hope that by providing this tool on our website that we are making our information more accessible to families whose first language is not English and thereby enabling better engagement in public education.
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Department Newsletter
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Department Newsletter
March 19, 2017The Geography Department is continuing our inquiry-based learning journey this semester. We will be developing inquiry skills through guided and independed inquiry.
The skills developed through inquiry will assist with collaboration, critical thinking, and problem solving. As a focus, we will be working on:
- Formulating questions that guide the focus of our inquiries
- Gathering and organizing information from a variety of sources
- Interpreting and analysing data, evidence, and information
- Evaluating and drawing conclusions
- Communicating decisions, conclusions, and predictions
There are many entry points into inquiry and we will support students based on their levels of readiness. March 19, 2017Our focus in all Geography courses will be learning to think like a geographer by applying the concepts of geographic thinking to our understanding of regional and international events and issues. These concepts will also support the inquiry process and the completion of course expectations.
In Geography, we focus on four concepts:
SPATIAL SIGNIFICANCE
This concept requires you to determine the importance of a place or region. Explore the connections that exist between the geographical location and physical characteristics of a site and analyse the unique relationships that exist in and between the natural and human environments in a particular place. The goal is for you to come to understand that the significance of the same place may be different for humans, animals, and plants.
PATTERNS AND TRENDS
This concept requires you to study characteristics that are similar and that repeat themselves
in a natural or human environment (patterns) and characteristics or traits that exhibit a consistent tendency in a particular setting and/or over a period of time (trends). The characteristics may be spatial, social, economic, physical, or environmental. You may analyse connections between characteristics to determine patterns; or, analyse connections between those characteristics over time to determine trends.
INTERRELATIONSHIPS
This concept requires you to explore connections within and between natural and human environments. The interconnected parts of an environment or environments work together to form a system. The goal is for you to understand the relationships that exist within a system and then critically analyse the relationships between systems in order to determine the impact they have on one another.
GEOGRAPHIC PERSPECTIVE
This concept requires you to consider the environmental, economic, political, and/or social implications of the issues, events, developments, and/or phenomena that you are analysing. In order to solve problems, make decisions or judgements, or formulate plans of action effectively, you need to develop the ability to examine issues from multiple perspectives.
March 19, 2017The Geography Department is pleased to offer Grade 11 Forces of Nature: Physical Processes and Disasters for the 2017-2018 school year. In this course, students will explore physical processes related to the earth’s water, land,
and air. They will investigate how these processes shape the planet’s natural characteristics and affect human systems, how they are involved in the creation of natural disasters,
and how they in uence the impacts of human disasters. Throughout the course, students
will apply the concepts of geographic thinking and the geographic inquiry process and
use spatial technologies to analyse these processes, make predictions related to natural disas-
ters, and assess ways of responding to them.
Prerequisite: Issues in Canadian Geography, Grade 9, Academic or Applied
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