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- Perth
- Western
Australia
 Introduction: why Perth?- Unit 1: where is it?
- Unit 2: the city
- Unit 3: history of Perth
- Unit 4: Schools in Perth
- Unit 5: some special
aspects
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Why
Perth?
Perth is
just a city in Australia. Just a city? Isn't
there something special about each single city in
the world? Perth is an Australian city just as
Hanover is a German city. And of course Dortmund,
Magdeburg, Aurich and Berlin. They can't be
compared and are all different? Exactly, the same
can be said about Brisbane, Melbourne, Sydney,
and Perth! They are all Australian cities and yet
they are all different. So let's have a look at
Perth, just to see what's going on there.
Unit 1:
Where is Perth?
 Task One: Find out the
geographical location of Perth so that you know where
it exactly is. Just take your atlas and look it up (much
easier than on the web!!). If you want to look up the location
of Perth on the web, this link will help
you:
Expedia Maps: http://www.expediamaps.com/
If the "Encarta WorldAtlas" is
available, use it as well, please.
And now use all the methods
you know from Geography to work out loads of
information on different aspects of Perth, WA.
- Fast Facts
-Overview: http://www.westernaustralia.net/fast_facts/index.shtml
- prepare a
map of Australia (draw it from your atlas, find it on the
web, etc.)
- sum up
geographical information worth knowing about Perth
- work out
the distances to the neighbouring big cities (with more than
a million inhabitants) next to Perth and not only in Australia
- etc.
Task Two: Perth is not just a
city, there's a countryside around it. What does it
look like? What is worth knowing and telling the
others?
Goldfields: http://www.westernaustralia.net/discover/goldfields/index.shtml
and more: http://www.westernaustralia.net/discover/index.shtml
Well then, now
you know where Perth is and what it looks like around
the town. Have you prepared your notes (textfile with graphics) and
saved them as a .doc-file?
Unit 2:
Perth - The City & what's interesting about
Perth?
Aim: Getting in touch with what
the city looks like and what's going on there. After
looking at some of the following links you should be
able to sum up some information about the city of
Perth. You might want to prepare an oral presentation
of your results, supported by a text-file with the
main facts and perhaps some images, too. Don't forget to collect
useful vocabulary as well, please.
http://wattlegroveps.wa.edu.au/perth.html (obviously the result of
a school's project, careful: It takes awfully long
until the page is loaded completely, good fotos are
the reward for waiting!)
http://www.westernaustralia.net/fast_facts/index.shtml (discover Perth: with
some fotos, a map and a short video)
Unit 3: History and
development of Perth
Aim: To learn about details of the settlement
which is mainly connected with convicts and convict labour.
Step 1:
A quick overview
Fast Facts - WA
History: http://www.westernaustralia.net/fast_facts/history/index.shtml
...and if you think Captain
James Cook is important as well, see which role he played in
the history of Australia in general.
Step 2: Details on the topic
"Convicts"
Please work out facts and
details worth knowing about convicts: These were people, at their
time regarded as criminals, who were sent as prisoners from
Britain to Australia
Convicts:
Crime in 18th century England and what to do with criminals?
(detailed information from an Australian CD-ROM
for pupils)
brief information on convicts
in Western Australia
Step 3: Details on the settlement of
Perth, WA
Now you should be able to research the
development of Perth from the first European explorers to a real
city:
Swan River
Settlement: http://www.iinet.net.au/~rchapman/SwanRvr/index.htm (educational site) and
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