News Article TASK: Find a newspaper article, follow the instructions on the handout and answer the questions.
Media File
Each week you will need to collect news clippings about current issues and the most useful sources are The Guardian, The Daily Telegraph and The Sydney Morning Herald. Current concerns are usually, immediately covered by the press and it will mean you become familiar with some of the local and macro environment.
Class Activity - Take some notes using key words after reading the article you have brought in class.
Homework = Summary - Write a brief summary of the main issues the article deals with based on your notes.
Personal reflection - Respond in a written format about attitudes, feelings, reflections on the content and implications of the article.
News Article TASK: Find a newspaper article, follow the instructions on the handout and answer the questions.
With the reading unit, for now, we will be using our class blog as one of the online delivery platforms. I will be putting resources and tasks for you to complete and send them back to me as blog posts or via email so you can practise enough to be prepared for the assessment in Week 10.
I really appreciated that Ali, Zahra, Zainab and Amina came this morning and we discussed the flexible delivery of the reading unit. Thanks guys and I hope the other students will follow my instructions.
Biodiversity is the variety and variability of life on Earth. Biodiversity is typically a measure of variation at the genetic, species, and ecosystem level. Terrestrial biodiversity is usually greater near the equator, which is the result of the warm climate and high primary productivity. Biodiversity is not distributed evenly on Earth, and is richest in the tropics. These tropical forest ecosystems cover less than 10 percent of earth's surface, and contain about 90 percent of the world's species. Marine biodiversity is usually highest along coasts in the Western Pacific, where sea surface temperature is highest, and in the mid-latitudinal band in all oceans. There are latitudinal gradients in species diversity. Biodiversity generally tends to cluster in hot spots, and has been increasing through time, but will be likely to slow in the future.
Each week you will need to collect news clippings about current issues and the most useful sources are The Guardian, The Daily Telegraph and The Sydney Morning Herald. Current concerns are usually, immediately covered by the press and it will mean you become familiar with some of the local and macro environment.