Saturday, 23 April 2011

Alternative Assessment for geography.

Scenario:
Your group is a delegation from a rich European country with a servere water shortage. The minister of water recources in your country has decided to send your group to Singapore to find out what they have done to increase their water supply successfully. After the end of your trip, you will have to come up with a proposal to introduce the different ways that Singapore has increased their water supply. The minister has indicated that he would prefer to see this in the format of a blog.

Task:
1. Find out the different ways that Singapore has dealt with their water constraints.
2. Provide an in-dept description of each method, using pictures, videos, diagrams, of illustrations.
3. Evaluate which method you think is the best method and provide reasons why you have chosen that method.

Things to take note of:
-Form groups of 2 or 3 with your classmates.
-Deadline for this assignment is on the 29th of april.
-Submitting this assignment in a form of a blog is preferred, however, should you want to submit this assignment in the form of a written report it is acceptable. Written reports should be in arial font, size 12, 1.5 spacing.
- 15 marks!

Rubrics:
>Content:
   - Detailed description of each of the ways that Singapore is using to increase their water supply.
   - References to named examples.
>Evaluation:
   - In-depth discussion of why one source of increasing water supply may be more useful then the other.
   - Clear reasoning as to how thwy came to a conclusion.
>Presentation:
   - Pictures, diagrams and videos used very well to contribute to the explaination of content.
   - Very well organized and clear.

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