The Challenge:
Using what you know about Katherine how can you urbanise it to either increase birth rates, lower death rates and pull more people to the area to stay?
Task 1: Create a town data profile
Use the following websites to create a set of data visuals.
Create 4 data visuals like the ones on the right.
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Task 2: Inquiry Questions
Using what you know about Katherine from your data create 3 inquiry questions for how to Urbanise Katherine.
What is an inquiry question?
This is an open ended question with no one answer. It leads to discussion and research in order to solve a problem.
Example for Darwin's Data:
Creation of a data driven inquiry question:
You need to state data you have recognized as important, confusing or different and then ask a question of it. You can have it guided such as mentioning how the council can improve housing which would lead to a discussion around housing, or you can leave it completely open such as how can the council improve this statistic?
Task: With your Katherine Data create 3 inquiry questions referring to you data.
What is an inquiry question?
This is an open ended question with no one answer. It leads to discussion and research in order to solve a problem.
Example for Darwin's Data:
- Since approximately 20% of Darwin's residents are professional what can the council do to provide more incentive for other occupations?
- The average age of Darwin residents are between 25-29. What more could Darwin council offer this age band?
- Darwin's population is consistently increasing every year. What can the council to do match Darwin's rising population?
Creation of a data driven inquiry question:
You need to state data you have recognized as important, confusing or different and then ask a question of it. You can have it guided such as mentioning how the council can improve housing which would lead to a discussion around housing, or you can leave it completely open such as how can the council improve this statistic?
Task: With your Katherine Data create 3 inquiry questions referring to you data.
Task 3: Explain your ideas
Using your data and imagination answer your inquiry questions.
Answer the following for each question:
At the end you should have a 4-6 sentence paragraph for each inquiry question.
Answer the following for each question:
- Explain your idea.
- Why is this urbanization idea needed according to the data?
- Why would this idea work? Give at least 2 reasons.
- How would this idea benefit Katherine? Explain at least 3 benefits.
At the end you should have a 4-6 sentence paragraph for each inquiry question.
Task 4: Discuss the impacts
You now need to discuss the possible impacts of your 3 ideas on the Economy, Environment and Society.
Economy (money and businesses)
Environment (flora, fauna, pollution)
Society (humans and culture)
At the end you should have 3 3-4 sentence paragraphs for each of you ideas.
Economy (money and businesses)
- Will there be a low or high impact on the economy? Why?
- What are some negative impacts your idea/s could have on the economy? How could you avoid this problem and be proactive about the solution?
- What are some positive impacts your idea/s could have on the economy?
Environment (flora, fauna, pollution)
- Will there be a low or high impact on the environment? Why?
- What are some negative impacts your idea/s could have on the environment? How could you avoid this problem and be proactive about the solution?
- What are some positive impacts your idea/s could have on the environment?
Society (humans and culture)
- Will there be a low or high impact on the society? Why?
- What are some negative impacts your idea/s could have on the society? How could you avoid this problem and be proactive about the solution?
- What are some positive impacts your idea/s could have on the society?
At the end you should have 3 3-4 sentence paragraphs for each of you ideas.
Task 5: Urbanisation
You need to explain why urbanization is needed in Katherine answering the following questions:
- What is Urbanisation?
- Why would Katherine benefit from being urbanized? (explain at least 3 benefits)
- What are some problems that could occur is Katherine urbanises too quickly? (explain at least 3 possible issues)
- What would need to be in place for rapid urbanization of Katherine to occur successfully? (explain at least 3 necessities Katherine would need)