Year 10 Subject Guide 2020

GEOGRAPHY

Year 10 MYP

Subject Outline Geography focuses on the significance of ‘place’ and ‘space’ in understanding our world. Students engage in a range of learning experiences that develop their geographical skills and thinking through the exploration of geographical challenges and their effects on people, places and the environment. Students investigate places in Australia and across the globe to observe and measure spatial, environmental, economic, political, social and cultural factors. They interpret global concerns and challenges including responding to risk in hazard zones, planning sustainable places, managing land cover transformations and planning for population change. They develop an understanding of the complexities involved in sustainable planning and management practices. Students observe, gather, organise, analyse and present data and information across a range of scales. They engage in real-world applications of geographical skills and thinking, including the collection and representation of data.

Pathways Geography articulates to the following Year 11 and 12 QCCA Senior Programme or the International Baccalaureate Diploma Programme in Year 11 2019:  As part of the Queensland Certificate of Education: - Geography Geography is often studied by students interested in land management, architecture and social justice pathways at university. MYP Objectives The aims of the teaching of Geography are to encourage and enable students to:  appreciate human and environmental commonalities and diversity  understand the interactions and interdependence of individuals, societies and the environment  understand how both environmental and human systems operate and evolve  identify and develop concern for the well-being of human communities and the natural environment  act as responsible citizens of local and global communities  develop inquiry skills that lead towards conceptual understandings of the relationships between individuals, societies and the environments in which they live.  As part of the IB Diploma Programme: - Geography

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