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11–12Geography 11–12 Syllabus

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Implementation from 2024
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Life Skills

Life Skills for Stage 6

Through collaborative curriculum planning, it may be decided that Life Skills outcomes and content are the most appropriate option for some students with intellectual disability.

Earth’s natural systems
The uniqueness and diversity of the Earth
  • Experience nature as a source of wonder, for example inspirational landscapes, biodiversity hotspots, great wildlife migrations across air, land and sea

  • Recognise ways in which natural environments are valued

The Earth's surface – a physical perspective
  • Recognise the physical elements of natural environments

  • Locate major terrestrial and marine environments on a map

  • Identify types of natural features and environments on the Earth's surface

  • Locate distinctive natural features of environments on a map

  • Identify spatial dimensions of a natural environment

  • Record information about natural features in an environment

Processes and cycles connecting natural systems
  • Investigate the biophysical components of a local natural system

  • Describe a biophysical process

  • Explore factors that affect natural systems

  • Measure and record data related to components of a biophysical environment

Natural systems and land cover change
  • Explore land cover change through at least one distinctive biophysical process

  • Identify land and water cover change in photographs or other visual representations

  • Collect and record evidence of evolving natural systems

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