Edda's Student Portfolio

For Grade 10 coursework…

Make sure your introduction has a strong map, showing the location and background of East Coast using Borders, Orientation, Title and Scale. You need to make sure your sentences relate back to the research question e.g Should Pulau Ubin be developed or conserved? Is Ubin attractive and valuable? Answer the question and justify it, making sure to be detailed. You need to have primary and secondary resources, including your own investigation data and other websites.

For the method, include photos of your workbook and the ways you recorded data about the place. e.g. a photo of the Ubin perception profiles, field sketches and questionnaires.

Data and Analysis is worth 24 marks, so you need to focus most on this section. Your choropleth map also goes into this section. Present your data within your writing (analysis) of what you could do to improve, why it was not reliable and a story like flow of what this means etc. Make connections to different data points and make conclusions.

The evaluation is also important. Don’t leave this to the last minute and rush it. At the end of the East Coast coursework day, stay focused and take good notes based on what the teacher and other students say. This, as all the sections, also needs to go back to the research question. Don’t just talk about the field trip itself and the problems you faced, go more in depth.

In my opinion, the disadvantages of the construction of the 3 Gorges Dam outweighs the advantages, and the large cost of construction of the dam was not worth it. Although estimates vary, the $25-60 billion cost of the project  payed by the Chinese government with loans from international banks may have been payed back by selling the electricity produced by the dam, however many other factors besides the overall cost come into place.  Social, environmental, and economic disadvantages have caused drastic and detrimental changes for the country, and have and will follow up in the future. I think this project by the Chinese government did not take harmful future changes carefully into consideration. One aim of the project was to reduce climate change by generating electricity using HEP. I think this is very important because it shows that countries are thinking about climate change and what they can do to solve the issue. But instead of focusing on reducing their emissions, they solved an issue by creating more issues for China. The country was taking action in reducing environmental damage, however the construction of the dam did much more harm than good to the environment overall, so I think their actions to help the environment were not effective. Not only that, the ruining of the environment also caused millions of displaced people, deaths and more landslides, decreasing the quality of life for people living in the reservoir. The planning of the dam was not thorough, and their steps to reduce climate change only created a decreasing amount of electricity production for the country. The list of disadvantages grows more and more by the years for the Yangtze river, so I think it is clear that the negatives outweigh the positives.