CGC1W COURSE OUTLINE

Course Title: Exploring Canadian Geography, Grade 9

Grade: 12

Ministry Course Code: CGC1W

Course Type: De-streamed

Credit Value: 1.00

Course Hours: 110

Department: Geography

Revision Date: N/A

Policy Document: https://www.dcp.edu.gov.on.ca/en/curriculum/canadian-and-world-studies/courses/cgc1w/home

Domestic Student Price: $550
International Student Price: $799

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COURSE DESCRIPTION

Students will explore relationships within and between Canada’s natural and human systems and how they interconnect with other parts of the world. Students will also examine environmental and economic issues, and their impact related to topics such as natural resources and industries, careers, land use and responsible development, and sustainability. In addition, students will understand the connections that diverse communities and individuals have with the physical environment and each other throughout Canada, including First Nations, Métis, and Inuit perspectives. Students will apply geographic thinking, use the geographic inquiry process, and use geospatial technologies throughout their investigations.

OVERALL EXPECTATIONS

A. Geographic Inquiry and Skill Development

1. use the geographic inquiry process and the concepts of geographic thinking when investigating issues relating to Canadian geography

2. apply in everyday contexts skills, including geospatial technology skills, developed through the investigation of Canadian geography, and identify some careers, including those in the skilled trades, in which a background in geography might be an asset

B. Physical Geography and Physical Processes in Canada

1. describe various characteristics of the natural environment and the spatial distribution of physical features in Canada, and analyze the role of physical processes, phenomena, and events in shaping them

2. analyze interrelationships between physical processes, phenomena, and events and the ways in which various communities in Canada respond to and interact with them

C. Managing Canada’s Resources and Industries

1. analyze characteristics of natural resources and industries in Canada, and factors that affect the accessibility and use of natural resources and the location of industries

2. analyze issues related to the sustainable development of resources and industries in Canada

D. Changing Populations

1. analyze key patterns and trends in demographics and population movement and settlement, and factors that affect these patterns and trends, nationally and for various populations in Canada

2. analyze selected national and global population issues and their implications for Canada and for various people who live in Canada

E. Liveable Communities

1. analyze characteristics and impacts of land use in various communities in Canada, including urban communities, and factors affecting land use and land-use planning

2. analyze issues relating to, and strategies for improving, the sustainability of human systems and communities in Canada

OUTLINE OF COURSE CONTENT

TEACHING AND LEARNING STRATEGIES

A variety of teaching and learning strategies are used to allow students many opportunities to attain the necessary skills for success in this course and in future studies. In all activities, consideration will be taken to ensure that individual students’ multiple intelligences and learning strengths are addressed through the use of varied and multiple activities in each lesson.

STRATEGIES FOR ASSESSMENT AND EVALUATION OF STUDENT PERFORMANCE

The primary purpose of assessment and evaluation is to improve student learning. Assessment and evaluation is based on the Ministry of Education’s Growing Success policy document, which articulates the Ministry’s vision for how assessment and evaluation is practiced in Ontario schools.

Growing Success describes the three assessment types as follows:

Assessment as Learning: focuses on the explicit fostering of students’ capacity over time to be their own best assessors, but teachers need to start by presenting and modelling external, structured opportunities for students to assess themselves.
Assessment for Learning: the process of seeking and interpreting evidence for use by learners and their teachers to decide where the learners are in their learning, where they need to go, and how best to get there.
Assessment of Learning: the assessment that becomes public and results in statements or symbols about how well students are learning.

ASSESSMENT AND EVALUATION

EVALUATION SCHEME

A final grade (percentage mark) is calculated at the end of the course and reflects the quality of the student’s achievement of the overall expectations of the course, in accordance with the provincial curriculum.

The final grade will be determined as follows:

Seventy percent (70%) of the grade will be based on evaluation conducted throughout the course. This portion of the grade should reflect the student’s most consistent level of achievement throughout the course, although special consideration should be given to more recent evidence of achievement.
Thirty percent (30%) of the grade will be based on a final evaluation administered at or towards the end of the course. This evaluation will be based on evidence from one or a combination of the following: an examination, a performance, an essay, and/or another method of evaluation suitable to the course content. The final evaluation allows the student an opportunity to demonstrate comprehensive achievement of the overall expectations for the course.

PLAGIARISM

Plagiarism is a serious offense. It is defined as taking words, phrasing, sentence structure, or any other element of the expression of another person’s ideas, and using them as if they were your own. Plagiarism is a violation of another person’s rights, whether the material taken is great or small.Students will be assisted in developing strategies and techniques to avoid plagiarism. They need to be aware that plagiarized term work will be penalized and could result in a mark of zero.