7–10Geography 7–10 Syllabus
The new Geography 7–10 Syllabus (2024) is to be implemented from 2027.
2025 and 2026 – Plan and prepare to teach the new syllabus
2027 – Start teaching new syllabus
School sectors are responsible for implementing syllabuses and are best placed to provide schools with specific guidance and information on implementation given their understanding of their individual contexts.
Content
Stage 4
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.
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.
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 liveability of places through oral, visual, written or multimodal texts
Different places and environments where people live
Features and characteristics of the places where people live
Reasons people live in different places
Collection of data to represent why people live where they do
People’s and communities’ connections to a local area
Access to services and facilities that increase the liveability of a place
Impacts of physical influences on the liveability of a place
Impacts of human influences on the liveability of a place
Factors that enhance the liveability of a place
Cultural connections to a place that enhance liveability
How caring for Country enhances liveability for Aboriginal Peoples
Initiatives that can engage people to enhance the liveability of the local area
Reasons for enhancing the liveability of a place