11–12Geography 11–12 Syllabus
The new Geography 11–12 Syllabus (2022) is to be implemented from 2024.
2024, Term 1
- Start teaching new syllabus for Year 11
- Start implementing new Year 11 school-based assessment requirements
- Continue to teach the Geography Stage 6 Syllabus (2009) for Year 12
2024, Term 4
- Start teaching new syllabus for Year 12
- Start implementing new Year 12 school-based assessment requirements
2025
- First HSC examination for new syllabus
Content
Life Skills
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.
As part of this focus area, teachers may choose for students to undertake ONE of the following investigations:
- Investigation: Local rural or urban place
- Investigation: Large city.
The investigation can be conducted individually, collaboratively or as a class. Students may complete a whole investigation, part of an investigation or selected aspects of the investigation.
Teachers may select an appropriate local rural or urban place, or large city for investigation.
Explore elements of demographics
Identify characteristics of rural and urban places at a range of scales
Identify different types of places at a range of scales
Compare spatial characteristics of different types of places based on a variety of geographic measures
Collect evidence of the human environmental footprint in rural and urban places at a range of scales
Collect evidence of different human wellbeing indicators in rural and urban places at a range of scales
Draw conclusions about a rural and urban place based on spatial characteristics or human wellbeing indicators
Identify features of demography and demographic change
Identify reasons for urbanisation
Locate megacities on a map
Outline the multiple functions of a megacity
Identify reasons for rural decline
Explore ways in which rural and urban places are interdependent
Examine a place at a local scale
Investigate human and natural geographic processes that have shaped the place
Represent data related to human and physical geographical processes
Identify links to surrounding areas
Explore a sustainability challenge for the place
Suggest solutions to enhance the sustainability of the place
Locate a large city
Identify the main characteristics of the large city
Represent one or more characteristics
Outline processes shaping the large city over time
Recognise challenges for sustainability
Explore opportunities for sustainability
Assess the effectiveness of responses to sustainability challenges