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7–10Geography 7–10 Syllabus

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Implementation from 2027
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Content

Life Skills

Life Skills for Stage 4/5

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.

Changing places

Content in Thinking and working geographically outlines how geographical concepts, inquiry skills and tools are to be integrated with the content in this focus area.

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Thinking and working geographically
  • Engage with relevant geographical concepts

  • Participate in geographical inquiry for the purpose of observing data, collecting and recording data and information, presenting findings and drawing conclusions

  • Use relevant geographical tools

  • Communicate ideas about the movement of people or the features of places where people settle through oral, visual, written or multimodal texts

Movement of people
  • Factors that influence international migration

  • Impacts of international migration to Australia

  • Factors that influence internal migration within Australia

  • Personal connections for movement within the local community or wider environment

Changing settlement patterns
  • Natural and human features of the local environment

  • Features of an urban area

  • Features of a rural area

  • Location of urban and rural areas nearby

  • Reasons why people live in urban, rural and remote places

  • Opportunities and challenges for employment and work experience in urban, rural and remote places

Urban planning for sustainability
  • Types of urban communities

  • Considerations when planning urban areas

  • Sustainable practices used in an urban community

  • Impacts of population changes on a place

  • Ways urban planning caters for diverse experiences, including for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples

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