Geography

God left His fingerprints all over creation. Byron Snapp

Overview

There are two units of study in the Year 8 curriculum for Geography: Landforms and Landscapes and Changing nations. Landforms and Landscapes focuses on investigating geomorphology through a study of landscapes and their landforms. This unit examines the processes that shape individual landforms, the values and meanings placed on landforms and landscapes by diverse cultures, hazards associated with landscapes, and management of landscapes. Changing nations investigates the changing human geography of countries, as revealed by shifts in population distribution. The unit explores the process of urbanisation and draws on a study of a country of the Asia region to show how urbanisation changes the economies and societies of low and middle-income countries. It investigates the reasons for the high level of urban concentration in Australia, one of the distinctive features of Australia’s human geography and then examines issues related to the management and future of Australia’s urban areas.

Aims

• To enable students to use further develop understanding and analysis of various geographic data.
• To recognise the reliance of humans upon the natural environment and its processes and how humans change and impact the environment.
• To understand that natural resources belong to God and we are stewards of the earth and responsible to care for it.
• To develop students’ understanding of the concept of environment and enable them to explore the significance of landscapes to people.
• By the end of the unit, students will have a greater understanding of the types and scales of interactions that occur between humans and natural environments.

Areas of study:

• Landforms and landscapes, including coastal and volcanic landscapes
• Changing nations, including urbanisation and migration
• Analysing geographic / visual data

Time Allocation

• 6 periods per cycle for one semester

Requirements

• Booklist Items

Assessment

• Coastal fieldwork report
• Landforms and landscapes assignment
• Changing nations task
• Examination

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