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Longitude and Latitude media type="youtube" key="cKT16DjHo_8" height="349" width="560" align="center" Title Page One: Geography Title Page Two: Global Issues and the Role of Citizenship

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WELCOME TO YEAR 8 HSIE!

28/3/2010 Can you believe that Term one is just about over!? How the time has flown by! Tomorrow we will continue to consider urban issues and develop our atlas and map reading skills by studying India's population explosion. Thank you to those who have provided assignments to me. We will again, be in A7 tomorrow for those of you that would like to use the school computers... so bring your USB drives!

23/3/2010 Lets be active 'global citizens'... Please visit [|Earth Hour] and pledge your support! media type="custom" key="5697945" 8/3/2010 Thank you to all of the students that have submitted your 'feed the people' assessable learning tasks. As you are aware, those that have not submitted your work will now be loosing 1 mark per day (1 per weekend). The school and town library is available for those you still need to complete research (online and books). I will make myself available at lunch time tomorrow (WEDNESDAY) if ANY of you would like to use a computer lab during LUNCH to complete your work. Remember this task is worth 30% of your overall mark!

2/3/2010 It is wonderful to see that some of you have made a great start to your 'Feed the People' assessable learning task. This week, we will continue to explore global issues with our focus being 'urban problems and global organisation'.

Don't forget to email me your draft assignment so that it can be reviewed prior to the end of this week. -Miss Grogan

19/2/2010 Today you will need to; 1. Open the file below 2. With your name @the start of the filename, save the doc in P:\Grogan\HSIE8\FeedthePeople 3. Read all of the questions 4. Complete the work in the same word document

If you have received 10 stamps I will spend time, when you have completed today's work, writing merits... Please come prepared with workbook and your diary.

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 * I hope that you have a great weekend... good luck if you are playing in the vollyball comp!!**
 * -Miss Grogan**

13/2/2010 Check out the AusAid Youtube videos if you are able... they are great to watch and will help you with a lot of the work that we will complete during term one... []. Two examples are below... also check out this movement to eradicate poverty from our world-http://www.stopforpoverty.org/ media type="custom" key="5359443"media type="custom" key="5359457" 8/2/2010 Thanks for working so hard today year 8. For those of you who have not completed the __**'Global Issues' poster**__, remember that you will need to have this done by **Thursday 11th** so that we can move on and continue with Global Citizenship. I have put aside my recess on thursday for those who have not finished this poster!!

The 'Globalisation' and/or 'world trade' homework is also due on Thursday 11th.

Good luck at the swimming carnival tomorrow! Go McConaghy!!! -Miss Grogan

5/2/2010 Here are the links for today... [] [] []