Reference Unit 2 calendar: when each block runs
| Block | A rotation | B rotation |
|---|---|---|
| Block 1 | Wed Oct 21 | Tue Oct 27 |
| Block 2 | Mon Oct 26 | Thu Oct 29 |
| Block 3 | Wed Oct 28 | Mon Nov 2 |
| Block 4 | Fri Oct 30 | Wed Nov 4 |
| Block 5 | Tue Nov 3 | Fri Nov 6 |
| Block 6 | Thu Nov 5 | Wed Nov 11 |
| Block 7 | Tue Nov 10 | Fri Nov 13 |
| Block 8 | Thu Nov 12 | Tue Nov 17 |
| Block 9 | Mon Nov 16 | Thu Nov 19 |
Your section follows one rotation, A or B. Check which one you are in and read that column.
Learning in English? Start with the key words. Unit 2 key words, with sentence starters · the same words in Tamil, Hindi, French, Korean and Japanese
Present landforms record the processes that produced them, so a landscape can be read as evidence of its own history.
Questions that get you there
- Factual Which processes shape a coast, a river channel, and a floodplain, and over what timescales?
- Conceptual How can a landform that took ten thousand years to make constrain a decision made this year?
- Debatable Should an urban river be channelized for flood control, or restored for the buffer it used to provide?
Unit 2 launches Thread 4: Science, policy, and the public. For the first time, students write for a non-student audience: a hypothetical Greater Chennai Corporation planning meeting. The format choice (≤1500-word written, ≤6-min annotated Google Earth video, or large infographic) is deliberate UDL design: the rubric is identical across all three, so the deliverable assesses landscape-reading thinking, not writing stamina.
It also continues Thread 1: OPVL and AI Documentation with new source types: USGS, Geological Survey of India, ISRO Bhuvan satellite data, historical Google Earth imagery, and Chennai-local news. The geological-time perspective added in Block 3 lets students compare evidence across timescales their U0 + U1 sources never spanned.
Nine blocks, nine locations, one new AI partner (the Field Geologist). The summative, the Landscape Reading, is the structured biography. The planning-audience share-out in Block 9 is the second defense in the year-long defense arc and the first one with a non-academic audience role.