LEVEL 2 INTERNALS
GENERAL
NUMBER OF STUDENTS DOING EACH STANDARD NATIONALLY 2012
STANDARD
2.2 Urban Pattern
2.5 Research
2.6 Contemporary
Issue
2.7 Global Topic
2.8 GIS
Number new
standard
5,190
6,216
5,250
Number old
standard
6,325
360
1,192
Total
5,190
7,258
6,563
1,042
1,313
7,517
360
This shows that the 2.7 global, closely followed by the 2.5 research, are the most
popular internal assessments which continues the pattern at Level 1. The GIS remains
the least popular and done by only a handful of schools.
SUCCESS IN EACH STANDARD
STANDARD
2.2 Urban
2.5 Research (old)
2.5 Research (new)
2.6 Con Issue (old)
2.6 Con Issue(new)
2.7 Global (old)
2.7 Global (new)
2.8 GIS
NA
ACHIEVED
MERIT
EXCELLENCE
14.9
23.0
20.0
10.9
13.5
13.8
13.9
25.3
37.1
35.9
37.4
37.4
37.1
37.7
36.2
25.8
29.4
26.0
25.0
34.0
31.9
29.2
30.0
24.7
18.6
15.1
17.6
17.7
17.5
19.4
20.0
24.2
The 2.8 has such small numbers it is not appropriate to include this. Of the others
the standard with the highest achievement rate is the 2.6. The standard with the
highest excellence rate is the 2.7. In comparing the old and new standards the
research seems a little easier to gain achievement and excellence in while the 2.6 is
a little trickier to gain achievement in. There is little difference in the global 2.7.
SURVEY RESULTS
This is based on approximately 60 schools in the Upper North Island that
sent in a return to the survey. This is sufficient to give us a good overall
pattern.
Number of Standards covered:
Doing 4 internals
Doing 3 internals
Doing 2 internals
Number of
responses
27
25
5
% of responses
47%
44%
9%
This shows that while most schools are doing 4 of the internal standards, this is
closely matched by those only doing 3. This is likely to reflect if schools are covering 2
or 3 externals.
COMMERCIAL PROVIDERS:
(please note I have only included those known about – if there are others please let
me know to update this)
1. Geostuff http://www.geostuff.co.nz/geographyl12.html
2. Classroom Solutions http://www.classroomsolutions.co.nz/geography.html
3. World vision
https://www.worldvision.org.nz/Catalogue/Education/Search/?&f1=35&f2=&
f3=
4. Rotorua Education Network: http://rotorua-education.co.nz/ncea-levels/
5. Auckland Geography Teachers Association: http://agta.org.nz/
6. Jean McCann [email protected]
2.2 URBAN PATTERN
AVAILABLE COMMERCIALLY:
TITLE
ABOUT
ACCESS FROM:
CSI Chicago
Tourist Patterns
Crime in Chicago
Urban tourist
patterns in
Rotorua
Spatial and
Temporal growth
patterns of
Canberra, Australia
Geostuff
$95
Rotorua Education Free
Network
when
book
AGTA
Free to
members
Canberra
COST
OUTSIDE NZ
Crime in Chicago is the most popular of the assessments which is a
commercially available internal from Geostuff. Many teachers also use
the opportunity to look beyond NZ for this internal.
-
Crime in Chicago (x18)
Mexico city
Singapore
Growth of Dubai
Canberra
AROUND NZ
The majority of teachers take the opportunity to do field work around
their local city.
-
Urban Sprawl in Tauranga
Schools in Tokoroa
Urban shopping pattern of Wellington (x2)
Life around the central city (Rotorua
Auckland residential patterns
Auckland CBD
Auckland Port
Shopping Mall distribution in Auckland (x2)
Auckland Transport (X2)
NO SETTING NAMED JUST PATTERN
- Inside a City—Location of schools or retirement homes or liquor
stores-patterns-factors/reasons.
NOT DONE (x17)
2.5 RESEARCH
AVAILABLE COMMERCIALLY:
TITLE
ABOUT
ACCESS FROM:
Auckland Super
city – do we feel
we belong?
Research collected AGTA
in different areas
of Auckland
COST
Free to
members
The Slippery Slope
of sustainability
Research on
skifields of
Ruapehu
Geostuff
$60
There is a huge range of topics here. The most popular seem to be based
on the 2.1 external.
BASED ON NATURAL GEOGRAPHY (x28)
- Tongariro field trip – Ruapehu Ramblings (x14)
- Kaimai Ranges – plants/soil
- Piha Stream (x2)
- Temperature Variation in Napier
- Temperature/ Weather Variations (x2)
- Waitakare/ Arataki (x3)
- Climate Change
- Coastal characteristics along BoP coastline
- Environmental Impacts on Climate
- Auckland’s volcanic landscape
- River Study – Comparison of 3 different catchments in Long bay
BASED ON CULTURAL GEOGRAPHY (x31)
OUTSIDE AUCKLAND
- Little Boxes/Urban Morphology (the boys walk a transect of
Hastings and map the predominant land use)
- Urban planning in Hastings
- What is happening in the Hastings retail world?
- House Values in Tokoroa
- Urban patterns in Hawke’s Bay
- Rotorua-landscape/environment changes associated with
tourism-fieldwork associated with a trip to that region.
IN AUCKLAND
-
Modern versus traditional shopping centres in Auckland
Auckland CBD (x3)
Auckland CBD Urban Settlement Models
Inner city living in Auckland - CBD study
Function patterns in Auckland CBD
Auckland Unitary plan
- Urban PLVI (Peak Land Value Intersection) study in Auckland
- Coffee Shop location in central Auckland
- Urban Parks in Auckland
GENERAL
- Location of a new bike shop (Wheels in Motion)
- Weir on the river?
- Hockey Turf needs/location
- Urban Patterns/Distance from CBD effect
- Retail therapy
- Town – size of section versus distance from CBD
- Settlement Hierarchies and Service Provision
- Pattern of House Age
- Who are we? Ethnicity and surrounding schools
- Mall or mainstreet? Comparing 2 shopping centres.
- Bring Your Own Device
- Sustainability of geothermal area
- Flight School
- Urban Residential patterns – ours
NOT DONE (x2)
2.6 CONTEMPORARY GEOGRAPHIC ISSUE
AVAILABLE COMMERCIALLY:
TITLE
Tairua Marina
ABOUT
Building a marina
in the Tairua
estuary
Affluenza – Are
Affluence issues in
You Immune?
NZ
Gold Rush
Mining in
Coromandel
Saving The Rotorua Pollution in
Lakes
Rotorua (with
Duck tour)
Clifford Bay
Changing the ferry
terminal across
ACCESS FROM:
COST
Jean McCann
$85
Geostuff
$60
Classroom
$59
Solutions
Rotorua Education Free
Network
when
book
AGTA
Free to
members
Cook Strait
Again there is a wide range of topics used reflecting that teachers are
making this appropriate to their local area.
NORTHLAND (X2)
- Flooding In Northland
- Turbines in Kaipara
AUCKLAND (X12)
- Auckland: Onwards or Upwards? (x4)
- West Coast – off shore mining
- The gentrification of Glen Innes and how people are being moved
out of the area
- Auckland Rail Loop
- Housing in Auckland
- Bachs on Rangitoto
- Auckland-Where are we going to live?
- Tunnel vision – the Waterview connection
- Second Harbour Crossing
CENTRAL NORTH ISLAND (X10)
- Development on Mt Ruapehu’ – on-going development of ski
fields
- Too many feet on the track - Tongariro Crossing
- The Base Shopping Complex destroying Hamilton’s CDB
- Waihi - Gold Rush (x3)
- The Napier-Gisborne Railway Issue
- Te Mata Peak visitors centre
- Tairua Marina (x2)
ELSEWHERE IN NZ (X11)
- Clifford Bay (x6)
- Fighting in Fiordland (a study of the congestion issue at Milford
sound)
- Monorail Queenstown to Fiordland (x2)
- Pollution of Manuwatu River
- Oil Exploration—East Coast –NZ
GENERAL NZ (X12)
- Affluenza (x8)
- 1080 Possums (x2)
- Mining (x2)
- Marina Development
NOT DONE (x9)
2.7 GLOBAL TOPIC
AVAILABLE COMMERCIALLY:
TITLE
ABOUT
ACCESS FROM:
COST
Hip Hop
Global Patterns of
the music of hip
hop
Malaria
Geostuff
$75
Geostuff
$50
HIV + AIDS
World Vision
$50
Stopping A Global
Killer
Facing the Global
challenge
BASED ON NATURAL GEOGRAPHY (x12)
- Desertification (x2)
- Endangered Species (x6)
- Desert location
- Coral Reefs
- Rainforests (x2)
PEOPLE/ENVIRONMENT INTERACTION /RESOURCES (x6)
- Deforestation (X2)
- Impact of climate change on human health (x2)
- Access to safe drinking water
- The Diamond Trade
BASED ON CULTURAL GEOGRAPHY / DEVELOPMENT (x35)
- HIV Aids (x9)
- Bean Bucks (x5)
- Hip Hop Dance (x3)
- Human Trafficking (x7)
- Stopping a global killer - Malaria (x9)
- Time space convergence and access to mobile phones and
computers
- Urbanisation
OTHER (x3)
- Own Choice (x3)
NOT DONE (x3)