Epsom Girls Grammar School Epsom Girls Grammar School

11 Geography

11GEO
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?

Learning Areas:

Social Sciences


Assessment Policy & Procedures
Pathway

Level 2 Geography

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.



			
					
					Course Costs and Equipment/ Stationery requirements
										
Cost of field trips.

										

								


				






    

        
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.