Decision-Making Exercises: Teacher's Guide
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The teacher's guide gives explanatory notes, guidance on set up, task sheets and suggested marking schemes. It also contains reduced facsimiles of all the copymasters for easy evaluation and planning for students doing the 16-19 project syllabus. "Decision-Making Exercises 1" uses case studies that relate to modules in the following areas: managing landforms systems at the Humber estuary; ecosystems and human activity on the Queensland coast; the energy question as it relates to Alaskan oil; the challange of urbanization in a Third World city; impact of industrial change in a Welsh valley; changing agricultural systems in Eastern Europe; natural hazards for example the Armenian earthquake; demand for recreation and leisure in Turkey; alternative approaches to development in Bangladesh; water resource management in Danube.
Menrva's Summary
THE THESIS
This guide provides a structured pedagogical framework for implementing decision-making exercises within the 16-19 geography project syllabus. Authors John Chaffey and Steven Richardson offer educators a comprehensive toolkit designed to bridge theoretical geographical concepts with practical, real-world problem-solving scenarios. The text functions as a support manual, detailing the instructional methodology and assessment criteria necessary to evaluate student performance on complex environmental and socio-economic case studies.
THE SCOPE MAP
What You Will Find
- Instructional guidance on setting up and facilitating classroom decision-making tasks.
- Reduced facsimiles of student copymasters for rapid lesson planning and evaluation.
- Standardized marking schemes to ensure consistent assessment of student responses.
- Ten distinct case studies covering global topics such as landform management, urbanization, industrial change, and resource management.
THE AUTHORITY PERSPECTIVE
The material suggests a highly specialized, practical resource tailored for secondary and post-secondary geography instructors focused on the 16-19 project syllabus. Its emphasis on structured assessment and clear instructional scaffolding indicates a focus on academic rigor and classroom utility for educators teaching complex environmental systems.
Page Count:
48
Publication Date:
1990-05-05
Publisher:
HarperCollins Publishers
ISBN-10:
0003266265
ISBN-13:
9780003266269
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Decision Making
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