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11–12Geography 11–12 Syllabus

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Implementation from 2024
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Year 12

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.

Ecosystems and global biodiversity

As part of this focus area, teachers may choose for students to undertake an individual, collaborative or class investigation of a selected ecosystem. The ecosystem chosen may be local, national or global. Students may complete a whole investigation, part of an investigation or selected aspects of the investigation. This may also include conducting fieldwork.

Teachers may choose an appropriate ecosystem for investigation.

Value of ecosystems

  • Identify features of ecosystems that have intrinsic value

  • Explore functions within ecosystems

  • Collect and record evidence of biodiversity within an ecosystem

Global biodiversity

  • Locate places globally with significant evidence of biodiversity

  • Identify risks and challenges to the biodiversity of the ecosystem

  • Explore management and sustainability practices for ecosystems

Aboriginal sustainable management practices of ecosystems

  • Identify customary Aboriginal land-management practices

Biodiversity loss and conservation programs

  • Identify loss of biodiversity in a local area

  • Identify reasons for loss of biodiversity

  • Explore actions, practices and programs that promote sustainable management to prevent loss of biodiversity

  • Develop an action, practice or program to promote sustainable management of a local area

  • Assess the effectiveness of an action, practice or program to promote sustainable management in a local area

Investigation: An ecosystem

  • Select an ecosystem to study

  • Collect and record geographical information about a chosen ecosystem

  • Communicate some information about a chosen ecosystem

  • Propose sustainable management strategies for the chosen ecosystem

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