Geography (Elective)

God left His fingerprints all over creation. Byron Snapp

Overview

There are two units of study in the Year 10 curriculum for Geography: Environmental Change and Management and Geographies of Human Wellbeing. Environmental Change and Management focuses on an overview of the environmental functions that support all like, the major challenges to their sustainability and how people perceive and respond to these challenges. Students investigate a specific type of environment and environmental change in Australia and one other country. Geographies of human wellbeing focuses on investigating global, national and local differences in human wellbeing between places. This unit examines the different concepts and measures of human wellbeing, and the causes of global differences in these measures between countries. Students explore programs designed to reduce the gap between differences in wellbeing.

Aims

To help students to understand their role in the management of the human and natural environment and resources, especially as God’s stewards on the Earth
To understand the causes and consequences of change in places and environments and how can this change be managed
To help students understand the complexity of biophysical, managed and constructed environments
To evaluate the state of our planet today and in the future and the impact of human activities on the environment
To consider how worldviews influence decisions on how to manage environmental and social change and how humanity should respond to change / inequality

Topics Include

Environmental Change and Management in
Human environments (e.g. cities)
Natural environments (e.g. marine or inland waters)
Global Wellbeing and improving living conditions

Time Allocation

4 periods per cycle, for one semester

Requirements

Booklist item

Assessment

Environment Change Case Study
Fieldwork Report
Data Analysis
Global Wellbeing Case Study
Examination

“The earth is the Lord’s, and everything in it, the world, and all who live in it”. Psalm 24:1