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

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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.

Physical geography: Interactions and patterns across a continent

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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Select ONE transect to investigate from the options below. Transects may be transcontinental.

  • Australia from Perth to Sydney
  • Australia from Adelaide to Darwin
  • Australia along the Tropic of Capricorn
  • North America from Los Angeles or San Francisco to New York
  • North America from Seattle to Boston
  • South America along the equator
  • Africa along the equator
  • Africa from Cape Town to Cairo
  • Asia from Dhaka to Beijing
  • The Trans-Siberian Railway
  • India from north to south
  • China from west to east
  • South America from Lima to Rio de Janeiro
  • Europe from Calais to Naples
  • Antarctica through the South Pole
  • Other selected transect, which may include a familiar transect or a transect connecting places in the student’s local environment, such as Broken Hill to Sydney, or from one Aboriginal Country or Torres Strait Islander Place to another
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 geography and transcontinental transects through oral, visual, written or multimodal texts

Diverse physical environments

  • Location of the selected transect

  • Physical environments along the selected transect

  • Natural resources along the selected transect

  • Access to water along the selected transect

Dynamic human environments

  • Human activities along the selected transect

  • Importance of resources along the selected transect for human activities

  • Changes to human features along the selected transect

  • Transport networks to move goods and people along the selected transect

Human–environment interactions

  • Settlement, work, travel and resource use along the selected transect

  • Influences on human activities along the selected transect

  • Changes to physical features from human activities along the selected transect

  • Sustainable use of land and water resources along the selected transect

  • Management or protection of natural resources along the selected transect

  • Cultural Practices evident, including those of Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander Peoples or international Indigenous Peoples along the selected transect

  • Natural hazards along the selected transect

Significant places, events and issues

  • Significant places, cultural or religious events along the selected transect

  • Significant places along the selected transect, including places significant to Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander Peoples or international Indigenous Peoples

  • A contemporary geographical issue relevant to the selected transect

  • Effects of the issue on the people living in different parts of the selected transect

  • Future of the natural environment along the selected transect

  • Future of human activity along the selected transect

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