Prerequisites
Minimum C result for semester one, Year 10 Humanities
Corequisites
N/A
Subject Description
In Geography, students develop their skills and thinking through the exploration of geographical challenges and their effects on people, places and the environment.
Students are exposed to a variety of problems and challenges affecting people and places across the globe. These challenges include responding to risk in hazard zones, planning sustainable places, managing land cover transformations and planning for population change.
Weekly workload in hours
4+ hours
Structure
Hazard Zones
| Sustainable Places
| Land Cover Transformations
| Population Change
|
Natural hazard zones
| Challenges to an Australian place
| Climate change
| Australian population
|
Ecological hazard zones | Challenges to a megacity
| Land cover transformations
| Global population changes |
Assessment
Schools devise assessments in Units 1 and 2 to suit their local context. In Units 3 and 4 students complete four summative assessments. The results from each of the assessments are added together to provide a subject score out of 100.
Students will also receive an overall subject result (A-E).
Summative assessment
Summative internal assessment 1 (IA1):
Examination - combination response
| 25%
| Summative internal assessment 3 (IA3): Investigation - data report
| 25% |
Summative internal assessment 2 (IA2):
Investigation - field report
| 25%
| Summative internal assessment 4 (IA4): Examination - combination response
| 25%
|
