Teacher in Charge: Ms L. Cleere.
Geography is all about people and their environment.
This course aims to:
This course will cover:
Field trips:
Local trips within Auckland to consolidate geographic understanding in a specific context.
What is the significance of this image? What questions arise from it?
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
People and population. How and why do people live where they do?
Historical development of the settlement of people at a local scale due to natural characteristics.
Look into the current global, uneven distribution of population and the consequences surrounding this.
National scale - New Zealand.
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?
Geography can lead to careers in planning, economic and social geography, surveying, teaching, marketing, hydrology, tourism and Geographic Information Systems plus many others.
Course Costs and Equipment/ Stationery requirementsCost of field trips.
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.