Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Geography Stage 4 - Mandatory
100hrs
Anmerkungen:
- Content for stage 4 focuses on learning related to global geography and the interaction of human and physical element of the environment in a global context
- 4G1-Investigating the World
25 hrs
Anmerkungen:
- Focus : An Introduction to the discipline of Geography and the nature of geographical inquiry.
- The Nature of Geography
- The physical elements of environment
Anmerkungen:
- -air
-flora and fauna
-soil
-solar energy (heat and light)
-water
- the human elements of environment
Anmerkungen:
- -agricultural
-industrial
-settlements
-economic
-political
-sociocultural
- the interaction of the physical and human
- Our world
- global representation using maps
- the importance and use of latitude
- the importance and use of longitude
- global patterns of physical and human features
- Geographical research
- key geographycal questions
- fieldwork
Anmerkungen:
- -the use of geographical tools in investigating the physical and human environment
- World Heritage sites
- natural (physical) and cultural (human) sites
- the criteria and process for World Heritage listing
- international treaties and agreements
related to World Heritage sites
- organisations responsible for World Heritage
- Source from Board of Studies NSW - prepared by Lydia Le 2014
Anmerkungen:
- http://www.boardofstudies.nsw.edu.au
- 4G2-Global Environments
25 hrs
Anmerkungen:
- Focus: The geographical process that form and transform global environments, and human interactions within environments
- Global environment
- Types of Global environments and
their location: At least ONE global
environment selected from the list
Anmerkungen:
- The list of global environment: (At least ONE of the following)
-coasts
-coral reefs
-deserts
-grasslands
-mountains
-polar lands
-rainforests
-rivers
-tundra
-wetlands
- the spatial distribution of the
selected global environment
- the major geographical processes that
operate within the chosen environment
Anmerkungen:
- -atmospheric processes
-biotic processes
-geomorphic processes
-hydro-logic processes
- the way humans, including indigenous
groups, interact with the environment
- At least ONE community and
the way it interacts with the
selected global environment
- the way the environment
influences the community
- the way the relationship
between the community and
the environment is changing
- strategies and processes that
individuals, groups and governments
use to influence change
- the way the community is
responding to these changes
- 4G3-Global change
25 hrs
Anmerkungen:
- Focus: The chaning nature of the world and responses to these changes.
- The changing nature of the world
- Globalisation
Anmerkungen:
- -the globalisation process
-changes in technology
-impacts of globasation
- changing global relationships
Anmerkungen:
- -business
-nations
-organisations
- Global inequalities
- extremes of poverty and wealth
- variations in the distribution, access
and use of natural resources
Anmerkungen:
- the distribution, access and use of natural resources:
-use of natural resources
-sustainability of natural resources
- variations in the access of
people to essential aspects of life
Anmerkungen:
- the access of people to essential aspects of life including:
-education
-food
-health
-shelter
-water
- different life opportunities and
quality of life throughout the world
- Global organisations
- investing global organisations
Anmerkungen:
- Global organisations by investing either:
-a group involved in reducing global inequalities
OR
-a group involved in promoting ecological sustainability
- 4G4-Global Issues and
the Role of Citizenship
25 hrs
Anmerkungen:
- Focus: Global geographical issues and appropriate methods of citizenship for their management
- Global geographical issues
Anmerkungen:
- global geographical issues, which must include:
-access to fresh water
-climate change
-energy use
-human rights
-indigenous people and self-determination
-land degradation
-threatened habitats
-tourism
-urbanisation
-use of ocean resources
- the need to promote ecological sustainability
- At least TWO global
geographical issues selected
- the nature of the issue
- different perspectives
relevant to the issue
- the responsibility of governments to the issue
- the actions of individuals,
groups and governments