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.
This option provides schools with the opportunity to develop students’ geographical knowledge and understanding of a particular location and/or area of inquiry that caters for their needs and interests. This study also provides an opportunity to investigate a geographical issue in depth and to undertake fieldwork within the local area or at an accessible location. Students use geographical inquiry skills to investigate the interactions between people and environments and the civics and citizenship aspects of a selected study.
The school-developed option should focus on ONE specific area of interest building on prior knowledge or addressing new content of either physical geography or human geography or a combination of both.
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 for a geographical inquiry through oral, visual, written or multimodal texts
Location of the selected area of interest
Features or characteristics of the selected area of interest
Changes experienced by the selected area of interest
The perspectives of different people or groups towards the selected area of interest
Environmental issues or events affecting the selected area of interest
Human activity and interactions between people and the environment that take place for the selected area of interest
A social, cultural, political or economic issue impacting the selected area of interest
Roles of people and organisations in managing or protecting the selected area of interest