7–10Geography Elective 7–10 Syllabus (2025)
The new Geography Elective 7–10 Syllabus (2025) is to be implemented from 2028 and will replace the Geography Elective 7–10 Syllabus (2019).
2026 and 2027 – Plan and prepare to teach the new syllabus
2028 – Start teaching the 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. Schools may choose to implement the new syllabus during the planning and preparation phase.
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.
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.
LoadingEngage 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 global citizenship through oral, visual, written or multimodal texts
Responsibilities towards others in familiar contexts
Ways to be a responsible citizen
Roles or responsibilities of national citizenship
Awareness and appreciation of diverse cultural groups
Inclusion of people from other countries in Australia
Responsibilities of being a global citizen
Impacts of technology on global citizenship
Individual actions that demonstrate environmental responsibility
Individual and group actions that support the local community
Effects of the actions of one country on places and environments in another part of the world
Promoting global citizenship between Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples and international Indigenous Peoples through education and advocacy
Cooperation between countries to help with global issues
Global geographic challenges in the world today
Actions that can be taken to raise awareness about global geographic challenges
Individual, community or government responses to global geographic challenges
Strategies to respond to global geographic challenges
Investigation of ONE environmental, social or economic challenge on a global scale in which Australians play a role as global citizens.
Nature and extent of the selected challenge
Perspectives of different people or groups towards the selected challenge
Individual actions that can be taken in response to the selected challenge
Roles or responsibilities of communities or governments in relation to the selected challenge