1. Commitment to learning
Geography
South America
Name:
Class:
Teacher:
Booklet due date:
Expectations
Pupil
Parent
Treat this booklet with respect and only hand in work you are proud of.
Complete all the tasks to the best of your ability.
Ask, in plenty of time, if you need help with any of the tasks.
Work independently wherever possible.
All work should be your own.
Proof-read this booklet before you hand it in to your teacher.
Check the quality of work and amount of effort your child has put into this booklet.
Where guided, please assess the Commitment to Learning of one task. The descriptors are below.
Contact the teacher in good time via if there are problems handing the work in on time.
Provide support, guidance and an environment to learn so your child makes the most of these tasks.
Commitment to learning 1
Outstanding
You have demonstrated an outstanding level of effort and commitment. Your work is extremely well presented. 2
Good
You have demonstrated a high level of effort and commitment. Care has been taken with your presentation. 3
Coasting
Your work does not reflect your ability and shows a lack of commitment. Presentation could be significantly better. 4
Cause for concern
The quality of your work shows a complete lack of effort and commitment. The presentation of your work is poor.
Choose a minimum of 4 more tasks you will do and mark them with a cross.
Task
Doing? 1 X 6 2 7 3 8 4 9 5 10
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2. Task
Use the timetable below to plan out how you will manage completing the tasks alongside your other commitments. Fill in any out of school activities/ plans you have to ensure you can fit your schedule around the successful completion of this booklet. If you need help with a task from an adult or a peer make sure you have arranged this in the timetable too.
Expected Outcome
A full homework timetable that includes homework deadlines, out of school activities and where others will be involved.
Skills Audit
Time Planning and organisation 1
Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
Friday
Saturday
Sunday
Challenge task:
Read through the booklet and consider the difficulty of the tasks – would you make any changes to the order of the tasks?

3. Teacher Check Box – Commitment to Learning.2
Task
Choose one country in South America to study!
Expected Outcome
Your chosen country highlighted on the map with a range of reasons for why this country has been chosen.
Skills Audit
Geographic enquiry, place knowledge
Your first task is to choose a country to focus on! Will it be somewhere you know something about already? Or somewhere you know nothing about?
Colour in the country you are focusing on.
Draw and colour in their flag in the rectangular box.
Give a range of reasons around the map to explain why you have chosen this country.
Teacher Check Box – Commitment to Learning.
Challenge task:
Give reasons why you did not choose another country.

4. 3
Task
This is the Place Wheel, geographers use this to describe places to each other. Choose an image of the capital city of your chosen country which you can take from Google Images.
Expected Outcome
Show an understanding of different types of geography and use them to effectively describe your local area.
Skills Audit
Description, use of key vocabulary
Where is this place?
What are the key landmarks in this area? (Starting with the most important)
What are the people in this place thinking and feeling?
What are the physical features of this area? (climate, topography, biomes, unusual phenomena)
What is ______________ like? Place an image here.
How is this place affecting your senses? (sights, smells, sounds)
What are the human features of this area? (settlements, industry, key architecture, population)

5. 4
Task
Produce a hand-drawn map of the country you have chosen to study.
Expected Outcome
A hand-drawn map which shows an understanding of key physical and human features.
Skills Audit
Mapping, evaluation, research, data presentation
When maps are produced they represent the views of those who use and produce them, that is why the UK is in the centre of every map you use in school. This task is about you producing a map which tells others about your chosen country. Your task is to look at a range of maps of your chosen country and then produce your own map inspired by what you have learnt about the geography of your chosen country. You could be highly informative, highly creative, or both!
Parent Check Box – what Commitment to Learning score would you give this task?
Parent signature
Challenge task:
Post your map online, ask for feedback and then use this to improve your map.

6. 5
Task
Research your chosen country.
Expected Outcome
A factfile about your chosen country containing information you have researched and selected, which is appropriate to use in the factfile.
Skills Audit
Research, selecting data, using a range of sources, referencing, key vocabulary
Using secondary data is important for geographers in developing an understanding of the processes within a place we have not visited.
Your task is to produce a factfile. Begin by deciding the information which should be included as headings, each of these should be named using key vocabulary.
Use the websites below as a starting point, fill the factfile with useful information about your chosen country which provides relevant information about the chosen country.
Self Check Box – what Commitment to Learning score would you give yourself for this task?
Challenge task:
What are the limitations of using these websites?

7. 6 Task Make notes on a video about tourism in your chosen country.
Expected Outcome
Choose an appropriate video on tourism in your chosen country and make notes on the information in the video.
Skills Audit
Research, note-taking, place knowledge
Watch a video aimed attracting tourists to your chosen country. During the video make notes on the reasons tourists are attracted to your chosen country for a holiday.
Please include the name of the video and the website (or other source) the video is from.
In tutor time, discuss with a peer why they should go to this country on holiday in the future.
Notes from tutor time discussion
Challenge task:
Watch a broader range of videos made by different organisations and people to expand your reasons for visiting this nation.

8. 7
Task
Identify problems associated with tourism.
Expected Outcome
Read an article about the problems tourism has caused in your chosen country and highlight the key information.
Skills Audit
Research, selecting information
Find an article about the problems associated with tourism in your chosen country. The aim of this task is to highlight the most important information within the article and then summarise what you have learnt.
Begin by going through the article with a highlighter pen and highlighting no more than 15 words. This is to ensure you are only highlighting the most important information in your article.
When you have done this, write your own short summary of the article to show you have comprehended the problems discussed in the article.
Tutor Check Box – what Commitment to Learning score would you give this task?
Challenge task:
Repeat the task for another article, but only highlight 10 words.

9. 8
Task
Identify solutions to the problems caused by tourism.
Expected Outcome
Identify an appropriate and sustainable solution to problems associated with tourism.
Skills Audit
Research, considering sustainability
An important skill for geographers is using examples in your work to support points you are trying to make. To begin with choose a problem associated with tourism you found out about in task 7 and then make a list of many ideas as you can of ways to solve this problem – they can be as creative and original as you like.
Now re-read your list and try choose 3 ideas you feel are the most appropriate for the country you have chosen to study. Try research examples of these ideas in action in other parts of the world – how successful have they been?
When you have researched all three choose the one idea which is most suitable for your chosen country and explain why it is an appropriate and sustainable choice for your country in one paragraph.
Peer Check Box – what Commitment to Learning score would you give this task?
Challenge task:
Explain how different groups of people in your chosen country would feel about your idea.

10. 9 Task Ecotourism case study Expected Outcome
Produce a case study for an example of ecotourism in your chosen country.
Skills Audit
Research, producing a case study, data presentation, revision technique
Tourism can be made to be positive for local people, their economy and the environment, this is done through applying the idea of ecotourism. You can find out more at this website:
Geographers are expected to have a wide place knowledge, however there are some places we know about in more detail to use as detailed examples in our work – these are called case studies.
Your task is to produce a case study for an ecotourism resort in your chosen country.
Name:
Location:
Ecotourist features:
How it is sustainable:
Any problems with the resort:
Present this in the box below as a flashcard – short, sharp pieces of information which can be revised quickly and easily.
Challenge task:
What other revision techniques could you use to present this information?

11. Teacher Check Box – Commitment to Learning.10
Task
Summarise what you have learnt about tourism in this country.
Expected Outcome
A poster/leaflet explaining why tourists should visit your chosen country.
Skills Audit
Summarising learning, use of images, writing for an audience
Produce a poster/leaflet explaining why tourists should visit your chosen country.
Where should tourists go? (3)
What activities can they participate in? (3)
How does the country benefit from tourists visiting? (3)
How can tourists visit this country sustainably? (3)
What problems might tourists face and how can they be prevented? (3)
Challenge task:
Compare your work to the official tourism website of your chosen country – how does the information differ?
Teacher Check Box – Commitment to Learning.
Strength
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Target

12. Task 10 Mark Scheme 1 1 – Attractions identified
2 – Further detail of the attractions
3 – Evidence from the area is provided in support 2
1 – Activities identified
2 – Further detail of the activities 3
1 – States benefits of tourism
2 – Explains how the country gains from this tourism
3 – Categorises the gain as economic, social or environmental 4
1 – Define the term sustainable
2 – Describes a way to enjoy tourism sustainably here
3 – Explains how this is sustainable 5
1 – Identifies a genuine problem for tourists here
2 – Describes an appropriate solution
3 – Explains how this solution will make tourists safer