11–12Geography Life Skills 11–12 Syllabus
The new Geography Life Skills 11–12 Syllabus (2022) is to be taught from 2024.
2023
- Plan and prepare to teach the new syllabus
2024, Term 1
- Start teaching new syllabus for Year 11 students
- Continue to teach the Geography Life Skills outcomes and content from the HSIE Life Skills 11–12 Syllabus (2018) for Year 12 students
2024, Term 4
- Start teaching new syllabus for Year 12 students
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.
As part of this focus area, teachers may choose for students to undertake an individual, collaborative or class study to develop an understanding of the role of people in changing places and environments, the processes involved, and the various ways they respond to change. Students may complete a whole study, part of a study or selected aspects of the study.
The areas of study for the People, patterns and processes study are suggestions only:
- Study 1: Human resilience in diverse environments
- Study 2: Local places and global economic change
- Study 3: Place and cultural change
- Study 4: Political power and contested spaces
- Study 5: Technological advances and the transformation of places.
Teachers may choose their own area of study.
Explore distinctive human features in the local community
Describe human features in a local community
Explore ways to access human features in a local community
Identify spatial dimensions of a human environment
Locate distinctive landmarks
Locate distinctive human features with or without a map
Research reasons why people live in a particular community
Explore patterns of human activity
Collect and record information about human features and/or human activity in a local environment
Investigate global integration
Explore global connections through clothing, entertainment and technology brands
Investigate global networks
Describe populations of people using indicators
Explore ways to measure population
Describe human population at various scales
Collect and record population data for a place
Describe human population density and distribution at a range of scales
Observe representations of population density and distribution on a range of maps
Compare population data between 2 places to show differences in density and distribution
Identify factors that affect changes to population on a range of scales
Identify some challenges to population growth and/or decline
Discuss some responses to population change
Identify natural resources that humans need for survival
Observe human resource consumption at a range of scales
Explore the links between population growth and resource consumption
Identify some challenges created by increased resource consumption
Investigate some responses to increased resource consumption
A place where humans have developed resilience
Characteristics of the place
Resilience of people
Spatial dimensions and nature of an economic activity
Impact of global forces on a local business or enterprise
Characteristics of a place and the impacts of the economic activity on the place
Impacts of the economic activity on people
Natural and human characteristics of a place
Human characteristics that contribute to sense of place
Influence of mass consumer culture, including media, fashion, brand images, sport, music
Evidence of cultural change in various local or global communities
The geopolitical characteristics of places
The forces contributing to global conflict
Consequences of, and responses to, political tension and/or conflict
A case study of a contested space at a local or regional scale
Technological advances that contributed to the rise of global networks and transformed a place
Social, economic and environmental impacts of technological advances on a place
The role of networks in transforming places