Unit 4: Global transformations Geography
This unit focuses on the process of international integration (globalisation) as a conceptual ‘lens’ through which to investigate issues in human geography. In doing so, it integrates the sub disciplines of economic and cultural geography, and political …
Unit 4: Global transformations | Geography | Humanities and Social Sciences | Senior secondary curriculum
Representation of General capabilities Geography
The general capabilities encompass the knowledge, skills, behaviours and dispositions that, together with the Geography curriculum content and the cross-curriculum priorities, will help students to live and work successfully in the twenty-first century. The …
Representation of General capabilities | Geography | Humanities and Social Sciences | Senior secondary curriculum
Structure of Geography Geography
Units In Senior Secondary Geography, students develop their understanding about themes of immediate relevance to them and which have scope for application at a variety of scales, from the local to the global. There are four units: Unit 1: Natural and …
Structure of Geography | Geography | Humanities and Social Sciences | Senior secondary curriculum
Unit 3: Land cover transformations Geography
This unit focuses on the changing biophysical cover of the earth’s surface, its impact on global climate and biodiversity, and the creation of anthropogenic biomes. In doing so, it examines the processes causing change in the earth’s land cover. These …
Unit 3: Land cover transformations | Geography | Humanities and Social Sciences | Senior secondary curriculum
Unit 2: Sustainable places Geography
This unit examines the economic, social and environmental sustainability of places. While all places are subject to changes produced by economic, demographic, social, political and environmental processes, the outcomes of these processes vary depending …
Unit 2: Sustainable places | Geography | Humanities and Social Sciences | Senior secondary curriculum
Unit 1: Natural and ecological hazards Geography
Natural and ecological hazards represent potential sources of harm to human life, health, income and property, and may affect elements of the biophysical, managed and constructed elements of environments. This unit focuses on identifying risks and managing …
Unit 1: Natural and ecological hazards | Geography | Humanities and Social Sciences | Senior secondary curriculum
Rationale/Aims Geography
Rationale The study of Geography draws on students’ curiosity about the diversity of the world’s places and their peoples, cultures and environments. It enables students to appreciate the complexity of our world and the diversity of its environments, …
Rationale/Aims | Geography | Humanities and Social Sciences | Senior secondary curriculum
ACHGE009
uses geographical language in appropriate contexts to demonstrate geographical knowledge and understanding
ACHGE009 | Content Descriptions | Unit 1: Natural and ecological hazards | Geography | Humanities and Social Sciences | Senior secondary curriculum
ACHGE036
uses geographical language in appropriate contexts to demonstrate geographical knowledge and understanding
ACHGE036 | Content Descriptions | Unit 2: Sustainable places | Geography | Humanities and Social Sciences | Senior secondary curriculum
ACHGE062
uses geographical language in appropriate contexts to demonstrate geographical knowledge and understanding
ACHGE062 | Content Descriptions | Unit 3: Land cover transformations | Geography | Humanities and Social Sciences | Senior secondary curriculum
ACHGE096
uses geographical language in appropriate contexts to demonstrate geographical knowledge and understanding
ACHGE096 | Content Descriptions | Unit 4: Global transformations | Geography | Humanities and Social Sciences | Senior secondary curriculum
ACHGE018
the spatial distribution of the hazard, and how an understanding of biophysical and human processes can be used to explain the patterns that are identified
ACHGE018 | Content Descriptions | Unit 1: Natural and ecological hazards | Geography | Humanities and Social Sciences | Senior secondary curriculum
ACHGE024
the diffusion and resulting spatial distribution of the hazard, and how an understanding of biophysical and human processes can be used to explain its spread
ACHGE024 | Content Descriptions | Unit 1: Natural and ecological hazards | Geography | Humanities and Social Sciences | Senior secondary curriculum
ACHGE074
The concept of anthropogenic biomes and its implications for our understanding of the functioning of the world’s ecosystems.
ACHGE074 | Content Descriptions | Unit 3: Land cover transformations | Geography | Humanities and Social Sciences | Senior secondary curriculum