1. LIVEABILITY What makes a place liveable? What is: ‘quality of life?’
How do we measure it?
Tasks:
Discuss questions and list answers on the board
Students make a new heading page and write questions and answers in work books

2. Capital Cities Of Australia
Tasks: These places are the cities of Australian States. Can you identify them?
(From left to right: Melbourne, Hobart, Adelaide, Perth, Darwin, Brisbane, Sydney)
Q. What makes cities liveable places? What attracts people to live in cities?
Access to employment, housing, schools, shops, parks, beaches,
What factors do people face when choosing where to live?
A. Employment prospects, affordable housing, quality schools, life style choices, family,

3. Victoria What makes a place liveable?
Tasks: Choose five towns from the map and search in Google Images.
Answer the following questions:
Why did you choose this town?
List the features you find attractive about this place
List the features you don’t like about this place
Would you be happy to live in this place? Explain your reasons

4. Macedon Ranges
The Macedon Ranges is situated in Central Victoria, North of Melbourne.

5. Macedon Ranges
Task: Discuss with the person next to you the following questions:
What are the reasons your family lives in the town that you live in?
Discuss the features you find important for liveability in your town.
If you had a choice to move, which town would you like to live in and why?
Task: List the main reasons students came up with in terms of:
Accessibility: education, healthcare, employment, leisure centres, transport services, parks, shops, utilities, internet,
Demographics: location, family, friends, culture, environment
Aesthetics: natural features, town layout, infrastructure
Site: land acreage, town block,
Stability: people movement, government, crime rate

6. Quality of Life
You have just given reasons that contribute to your happiness and wellbeing, your quality of life. Liveability is the qualities of a place, city, town, suburb, or neighbourhood that contributes to the quality of life experienced by those who live or visit there. The quality of life you enjoy will be different for other people. This is called Perspective. Let’s Read: Deciding Where to Live and Choices People Make on page 98 to 101 of our text book

7. Which place do you think is the best place to live?
Tasks:
Watch the YouTube video:
Using tally marks, rank each place in terms of ‘liveability’ out of 10 on the handout sheet
Discuss findings
Let’s read: Sense of Place on pages 102 – 105 and Liveability of places on pages
Watch the video. Which place do you think is the best place to live?
Watch again and give each place a "liveability" rating out of 10 (use the hand out sheet to tally marks)
Which place ranks highest? Which comes last? What factors did you take into account in rating the different places?

8. 10 most liveable cities in the world
Watch the video:
How do we measure liveability?
Stability
Education
Infrastructure
Healthcare
Culture
Environment
Let’s read chapter 1.5 on page 108
Watch this 10 most liveable cities in the world
How do we measure liveability?
Read chapter 1.5 Measuring Liveability of text book

9. What is a ‘Liveable City?
From the lists below select one ‘most liveable’ and one ‘least liveable’ city:
Most liveable cities: Sydney, Vancouver, Toronto, Auckland, Helsinki, Vienna, Perth, Bern, New York, Melbourne.
Least liveable cities: Dhaka, Tehran, Abidjan, Karachi, Port Moresby, Algiers, Harare, Lagos, Tripoli.
Make a power point titled:
What makes a city liveable?
Set up for Research Task: What is a liveable city?

10. Research
2. Conduct research into the following aspects of liveability for the two cities. Make a slide for each topic.
Location. Include country and continent.
Population and population density.
Natural environment and climate.
Law and Order. Is this a safe place? What crime statistics can you find?
Economy. What is the average income?
Infrastructure. How well is this city serviced with transport and other facilities?
Health care. Access to hospitals and doctors. How many doctors per head of population?
Education. What education structures are in place? When do children start school? How long do students stay at school?
Lifestyle. Recreation, Culture, Entertainment, Sport and other aspects about living in this city.
Summary. Write a short summary comparing (similarities) and contrasting (differences) the liveability of the cities you chose
Students to begin research, making a slide for each topic.
Include headings and sub headings

11. 3. Things to include:
A map of the world with the two cities you chose marked and labelled on it
Include headings, images, graphs and tables
A bibliography of all websites you use in your research
Remember to save all your work
Send to Mrs Gossip via the portal

12. Your Assessment Rubric
Criteria
Skilled (4)
Capable (3)
Apprentice (2)
Novice (1)
Content/Research
Excellent coverage of the topic.
All information is in your own words.
Most aspects of the topic are covered.
Most of the information is in your own wording.
Some aspects of the topic are covered.
And / OR
Most of the information is copied.
Shows little evidence of relevant research.
All information is copied.
Presentation
AVD
The assignment shows evidence of excellent organisation. Careful thought has been given to the presentation and choice of materials and the task has been produced with great care. The assignment is visually pleasing and contains no errors.
The assignment shows evidence of good organisation. Satisfactory thought has been given to the choice and presentation of material and the task has been produced with care. The task is visually pleasing and contains a few errors.
The assignment shows evidence of satisfactory organisation. Some thought has been given to the presentation of material and the task has been produced with some care. The task contains quite a few errors.
The assignment shows little evidence of satisfactory organisation. Little thought has been given to the presentation of material and the task has not been produced with care. The task contains many errors.
Summary
The summary compares two cities and shows a good understanding of the concept of ‘liveability’.
The summary compares two cities and shows a satisfactory understanding of the concept of ‘liveability’.
.Very little attempt is made to compare the cities studied. A limited understanding of ‘liveability’ is evident.
No attempt made to compare the two cities for ‘ liveability’.
Completion of task requirements.
All aspects of the task completed by due date and to a high standard.
All aspects completed and to a good standard.
Some of the questions completed.
Assignment is incomplete.

13. What is a ‘Liveable City
What is a ‘Liveable City? A Research Project on ‘Liveability’ By Mrs Gossip
Least Liveable City, Dhaka
Most Liveable City, Melbourne

14. Location in the world Dhaka is located in Bangladesh
Melbourne is located in Australia

15. 4 529 500 Population Melbourne Dhaka
Australian Bureau of Statistics report of March 2016 population count stands at:
Melbourne had the largest growth of all Greater Capital Cities in Australia between (up by 91,600)
Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics census population count for Dhaka, in March 2011, is as follows: Young 24,730,884 Adults 20,580,529 Elderly 2,113,005 Total 47,424,418

16. Natural Environment Dhaka Melbourne Outdoor spaces include:
Fitzroy Gardens
Treasury Gardens
Flagstaff Gardens
Queen Victoria Gardens
Royal Botanic Gardens
Kings Domain
Birrarung Marr Park
Carlton Gardens
Outdoor Spaces include:
Baldha Garden
Gulshan Lake Park
Bahadur Shah Park

17. Stability – Law and Order
2015
June 2016
Types of offences
Crimes against the person
Property and deception
Drug offences
Public order and security
Justice procedures
Total
Types of offences
Crimes against the person
Property and deception
Drug offences
Public order and security
Justice procedures
Total

18. Economy Australian Dollar Operations Manager $83 836
Accountant $57 676
Graphic Designer $50 151
Business Manager $79 127
Account Manager $61 865
General Manager $99 706
Executive Assistant $70 389
Bangladesh taka
Country Manager $79 500
General Manager $34 817
Mechanical Engineer $20 400
Software Engineer $10 849
Web Developer $18 000
AUS $10
BDT 10

19. Infrastructure
Melbourne
Dhaka

20. Healthcare

21. Education

22. Lifestyle

23. Summary

24. Bibliography
Australian Bureau of Statistics, Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics (BBS) Wikipedia