This course requires 2 options.
11 Geography
Although next year timetables are yet to be finalised, course selection is now finished. Any changes to student courses will now take place in January.
Course Description
Teacher in Charge: Ms L. Cleere
Geography is all about people and their environment.
This course aims to:
- Develop a knowledge and understanding of the world's people and places
- Allow students to consider and form opinions about current issues facing New Zealand and communities across the planet
- Help students to develop skills to carry out research
- Use information and communication technology to enhance learning
This course will cover:
- An overview of global geography and population
- Population issues and conflicting views on resource use in our environment.
- Extreme Natural Events and their impact within New Zealand and globally. Such as earthquakes, tsunamis and tropical cyclones.
- Current geographic issue affecting people and places.
- Geographical skills including topographic mapping, graphing and interpretation of visual resources such as satellite photographs
Field trips:
Local trips within Auckland to collect data for geographic research and to consolidate geographic understanding in a specific context.
Possible optional trip to Christchurch to look at the impacts of earthquakes.
Course Overview
Term 1
What is Geography? How do we look at environments and issues with a geographic perspective?
Gaining spatial awareness at a local, national and global scale.
Term 2
Extreme natural events, tropical cyclones, earthquakes and tsunamis. How they form and their impacts on people and environments.
Term 3
People and population. How and why do people live where they do?
Term 4
Sustainable environments. Is the way people use the natural environment impacting on their sustainability?
Course Costs and Equipment/ Stationery requirements
Cost of field trips.
Pathway
Geography can lead to careers in planning, economic and social geography, surveying, teaching, marketing, hydrology, tourism and Geographic Information Systems plus many others.
Credit Information
This course is approved for University Entrance.
Total Credits Available: 3 credits.
Internally Assessed Credits: 3 credits.
External
NZQA Info
Useful Links
Disclaimer
We aim to enable every student to have the course that they prefer, however, some courses have limited places or pre-requisits that may restrict the student's choice.