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7–10Geography Elective 7–10 Syllabus (2025)

Implementation from 2028
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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.

Human geography: Primary production

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 primary production through oral, visual, written or multimodal texts

Primary production
  • Resources provided through primary production

  • Environments suitable for primary production

  • Types of primary production in the local area or community

  • Factors that influence primary production in the local area or community

  • Ways primary production can be managed to protect the local environment

  • Employment opportunities in primary production

Economic importance of primary production
  • Ways primary production supports businesses and the community

  • Primary industry products that Australia sells to other countries

  • Role of technology in primary production

Improving sustainability in primary production
  • Natural resources used in primary production

  • Challenges of using natural resources in primary production

  • Ways to conserve natural resources

  • Management of primary production activities to protect the environment

  • Sustainable practices in a primary production industry

Investigative study

Investigation of ONE activity in relation to primary production operating on a local, regional or global scale.

  • Location of the selected activity

  • Timeframes for the selected activity

  • Purpose of the selected activity

  • Equipment for the selected activity

  • Human activities undertaken for aspects of the selected activity

  • Work opportunities associated with the selected activity

  • Skills or qualifications needed to undertake the selected activity

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