Geography

Subject Description

The Year 10 curriculum involves the study of two topics.

Environmental change and management: Students explore on the environmental functions that support all life, the major challenges to their sustainability, and the environmental world views that influence how people perceive and respond to these challenges. Students will examine the causes and consequences of a change within the context of a specific environment and the strategies to manage the change. This topic draws on studies from within Australia, and other countries.

Geographies of human wellbeing: Student explore on global, national, and local differences in human wellbeing between places, the different measures of human wellbeing, and the causes of global differences in measurements between countries. Students consider the spatial differences in wellbeing within and between countries, and programs designed to reduce the gap between differences in wellbeing. The study of this topic draws on studies from within Australia, India and another country in Asia or the Pacific.