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GCSE Bitesize - Geography

GCSE Bitesize - Geography

Curriculum connections - Vrroom Australian History The collection of records in Vrroom offers a window into key events and significant themes of 20th-century Australian History – events such as the birth of the Commonwealth of Australia in 1901 and themes relating to people, power and politics, immigration,national identity and environmental issues. In 2012 Vrroom is linking grouped primary sources with the Australian Curriculum: History. See Traversing Antarctica, the Australian experience. Vrroom can help teachers and students find archival records relating to nine broad research topics. Civics and Citizenship Vrroom is an excellent resource for secondary students studying Civics and Citizenship. What is citizenship? To study Civics and Citizenship, you might look at governance processes: You might explore government policy, for example: Or you might examine how the public interacts with the government: You could also explore Civics and Citizenship through topics such as: English Some records advance an argument: Science

,Migration is the movement of people from one Propaganda Australian propaganda was designed to maintain public anger about German atrocities and idealise Australian soldiers. Germany’s invasion of Belgium meant that German forces were easily portrayed as the aggressors in the conflict. inhuman and monstrous. One month after the landing at Gallipoli, the English passenger ship RMS Lusitania - a ship almost the size of the Titanic - was sunk by German submarines. 1,198 passengers and crew were killed. motif in Allied propaganda. Norman Lindsay, artist and author of the much-loved children’s book The Magic Pudding, created some of the most striking Australian propaganda. Propaganda also marks journalism at the time. bias in their accounts of Allied actions. Deliberately or otherwise, in the age of mass literacy, the lies, exaggerations and errors of the battlefield were turned into official communiqués and elaborated upon in correspondents’ dispatches. Williams, J F 1999, Anzacs, the media and the great war, UNSW Press, Sydney, NSW Victoria Cross

China media: One-child policy 18 November 2013Last updated at 00:50 ET Papers praise relaxation in China's one-child policy Media welcome reforms to relax the one-child policy and abolish a controversial labour camp system, but raise concerns over their effectiveness. A new plan allowing couples in China to have two children if one of the parents is an only child is continuing to reverberate through the media since its announcement on Friday. The measures are part of the resolutions released after the ruling Communist Party Central Committee's third plenum in Beijing last week. The one-child policy was enforced in the late 1970s to bring down a rapidly-growing population. The policy was later ease to allow couples to have two children if they were both without siblings. "This is a positive measure that will not only deal with the demographic dividend decline, labour shortages and other issues, but also help to build a strong social security and pension system," says the Beijing Times. Labour camps

Ageing China: Changes and challenges China's fertility rate - the average number of children a woman has in their lifetime - is 1.6, which is lower than the rate in the UK and the US. The Chinese government believes the one-child policy curtailed population growth, and that it prevented 400 million extra births. The BBC asked Cai Yong, a population expert at the University of North Carolina, to estimate what the country's population growth would have been without the one-child policy. His findings suggest that China's fertility would have declined at a similar rate without the one-child policy and would continue to decline even if the policy was discarded. How did the one-child policy affect population levels? Cai Yong writes: The UN's Population Division and statisticians from the University of Washington developed a set of sophisticated models to predict a country's future fertility based on its fertility change history and fertility trends in all other countries.

Introduction This resource pack describes and explains what are the global patterns of population change through: interpretation of world population distribution interpretation of the demographic transition model interpretation of differing population structures These materials support the Global Citizenship and Interdependence element of the WJEC GCSE geography (A - mainstream) specification, in particular the key question "What are the global patterns of population change?" The materials also offer the learning experiences of interpreting maps and graphs. Animation and graphics are used to show the dynamic nature of population change. Download lesson pack Please save and then extract this file to your hard drive before using.

MathsWorks for Teachers Series - ACER Shop Online Author(s): David Leigh-Lancaster Publisher: ACER Press, 2005 MathsWorks for Teachers has been developed to provide a coherent and contemporary framework for conceptualising and implementing aspects of middle and senior mathematics curricula. Titles in the series are: Functional Equations by David Leigh-Lancaster Complex Numbers and Vectors by Les Evans Foundation Numeracy in Context by Gary Motteram & Dave Tout Matrices by Pam Norton Data Analysis Applications by Kay Lipson Each text includes historical and background material, discussion of key concepts, skills and processes, commentary on teaching and learning approaches, comprehensive illustrative examples with related tables, graphs and diagrams throughout, references for each chapter (text and web-based), student activities and sample solution notes, and an extensive bibliography. maths works

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