This course requires 2 options.
11 Geography
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 world
- Use information and communication technology to enhance learning
- Encourage spatial thinking and an understanding of the significance of place
- Develop understanding of statistical techniques and resource interpretation
- Develop the use of spatial techniques using google earth and/or ARCGIS.
This course will cover:
- An overview of global geography and biomes
- 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 issues affecting people and places
- Human use of natural environments and the outcomes (sustainable or not?)
- Geographical skills including topographic mapping, graphing and interpretation of visual resources such as satellite photographs
Field trips:
Local trips within Auckland and/or surrounding regions to consolidate geographic understanding in a specific context.
What is the significance of this image? What questions arise from it?
Course Overview
Term 1
What is Geography? How do we look at different environments, biomes and issues with a geographic perspective?
Gaining spatial awareness at a local, national and global scale.
Term 2
People and population. How and why do people live where they do?
Historical development of the settlement of people at a global and local scale.
Look into the current (global, national and local) uneven distribution of population and the consequences surrounding this.
Term 3
Extreme natural events: tropical cyclones, earthquakes and tsunamis. How they form and their impacts on people and environments.
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 be studied through to Level 3 NCEA and Scholarship. It has the advantage of continuing as both a science and arts subject at university. It is very useful alongside other subjects as it offers an understanding of the world necessary for a variety of disciplines. Geography offers skills and content useful in many disciplines of study and career pathways.
Credit Information
You will be assessed in this course through all or a selection of the standards listed below.
This course is approved for University Entrance.
External
NZQA Info
Geography 1.1 - Demonstrate understanding of the spatial distribution of a phenomenon and its impacts on place
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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.