How topography defines the shape of Wellington and measures taken to overcome constraints
Wellington’s Location
Learning Intentions: Students are learning to
- Using Google Earth , transcribe the pattern of settlement and relief onto a blank outline map and then describe the way that Wellington’s rugged topography or relief defines and determines the shape of the city and the direction for future expansion. Watch footage on infill of gullies to expand the amount of flat land for building roads and houses
- Describe the exact location of the capital city and the reasons for its location using an atlas and latitude and longitude coordinates
Success criteria (How do students know they have achieved success?)
- Students will have a comprehensive map showing the terrain of Wellington and the areas of flat settled land. They will be able to name the key suburbs of the Wellington urban area
- Students will be able to describe the location of Wellington using mapping coordinates (site) as well as describe Wellington’s location in relation to other important places (situation).
Relevant Film Archive Footage
Disk Three: Future Directions: Changing Image:
- 1966: Toehold on a Harbour
Disk One: Expansion and Infrastructure Post WWII: Wellington in-Fill Housing and Expansion:
- In-Fill: A Use for Refuse
- Suburbs and Subdivisions: Pictorial Parade 193
Activities
- Introductory footage: Disk Three: 1966: Toehold on a Harbour
- Students analyse the terrain of Wellington and explain the relationship between the settlement patterns and the topography using Google Earth and a blank outline map
- Students view relevant footage: Disk One: In-Fill: A Use for Refuse ; Suburbs and Subdivisions: Pictorial Parade 193 and answer a series of questions, The Shape of Wellington on how the city overcame some of the constraints of its uneven topography
- Using the Important Geographic Idea of Location, students state the coordinates for Wellington urban area using an atlas (site). They then describe Wellington’s situation in relation to Auckland (NZ’s primate city), look at distance from other main centres and from Sydney, Singapore, China, USA and Europe (situation).
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