Year 10 Geography sample curriculum grid

Curriculum grid: Geography Strand: Skills To see how skills are integrated within each chapter, see the ‘Contents by skills’ tables on pages viii–xi of the Student Book.

Sub-strand Questioning and researching using geographical methods

Interpreting and analysing geographical data and information Concluding and decision-making

Communicating

Content descriptions

AC9HG10S01 develop a range of questions for a geographical inquiry related to a phenomenon or challenge AC9HG10S02 collect, represent and compare data and information from primary research methods, including fieldwork and secondary research materials, using geospatial technologies and digital tools as appropriate AC9HG10S03 evaluate geographical data and information to make generalisations and predictions, explain patterns and trends and infer relationships AC9HG10S04 evaluate data and information to justify conclusions AC9HG10S05 develop and evaluate strategies using environmental, economic or social criteria; recommend a strategy and explain the predicted impacts AC9HG10S06 create descriptions, explanations and responses, using geographical knowledge and geographical tools as appropriate, and concepts and terms that incorporate and acknowledge research findings

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Student Book topic

Chapter 1 The geography toolkit 1.3 Questioning and researching using geographical methods

Chapter 1 The geography toolkit 1.4 Interpreting and analysing geographical data and information Chapter 1 The geography toolkit 1.5 Concluding and decision making

Chapter 1 The geography toolkit 1.6 Communicating

Strand: Knowledge and understanding Sub-strand Environmental change and management

Content descriptions

AC9HG10K01 the human-induced changes that challenge the sustainability of places and environments

Student Book topic

Chapter 2 Changing and managing the environment 2.1 Understanding environmental change 2.2 Degrading the land 2.3 Degrading the atmosphere 2.4 Degrading the water 2A Skills in Context: Return to Eden 2.6 Australia’s collapsing ecosystems 2.7 Ecosystem decline: invasive species 2.8 Loss of biodiversity 2.9 Drivers of ecosystem change 2.12 Climate change 2B Skills in Context: Retreating glaciers Chapter 3 Coastal change and management 3.1 Change in coastal environments 3.3 Climate change and coasts

AC9HG10K02 the environmental world views of people and their implications for environmental management

Chapter 2 Changing and managing the environment 2.13 One world, many views

AC9HG10K03 First Nations Australians’ approaches to custodial responsibility and environmental management in different regions of Australia

Chapter 2 Changing and managing the environment 2.14 Custodial responsibility Chapter 3 Coastal change and management 3.9 First Nations peoples’ management of the coast

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Chapter 2 Changing and managing the environment 2.5 Ecosystem services 2.10 Pollution 2.11 Water pollution

2.15 Managing salinity 2.16 Managing deforestation 2.17 Challenges to sustainability 2C Skills in Context: Climate change and the Saami people Chapter 3 Coastal change and management 3.2 Natural coastal processes 3.4 The impact of climate change on the Great Barrier Reef 3.5 The impact of population growth on the coasts 3.6 Loss of coastal biodiversity 3A Skills in Context: Dunwich’s disappearing churches 3.7 New ways of managing coasts 3.10 Change at Rainbow Beach 3.11 Integrated Coastal Zone Management 3.12 ICZM in the Netherlands 3.14 Using spatial technologies 3.15 Understanding spatial variations 3.16 Assessing environmental change

Geographies of human wellbeing

AC9HG10K05 the methods used to measure spatial variations in human wellbeing and development, and how these can be applied to determine differences between places at the global scale

AC9HG10K06 reasons for, and consequences of, spatial variations in human wellbeing at a regional and national scale, drawing on studies such as from within India or another country in Asia

Chapter 4 An unequal world 4.1 Defining wellbeing 4.2 Different measures of wellbeing 4.3 Mapping wellbeing 4.4 Exploring links between wellbeing 4A Skills in Context: Global obesity epidemic Chapter 5 Inequalities in wellbeing 5.8 Gender and inequalities in wellbeing Chapter 4 An unequal world 4.5 Contrasts in wealth 4.6 Contrasts in health 4.7 Contrasts in education 4.8 Variations in wellbeing within India 4.9 India’s rural–urban divide Chapter 5 Inequalities in wellbeing 5.1 Why inequalities in wellbeing occur

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5.2 Environmental factors and inequalities 5.3 The influence of natural resources on inequality 5.4 The influence of location on inequality 5A Skills in Context: Prisoners of geography 5.5 Human factors and wellbeing 5.6 Population growth and inequalities in wellbeing 5.7 Conflict and inequalities in wellbeing 5.9 Technology and inequalities in wellbeing 5.10 Politics and inequalities in wellbeing 5B Skills in Context: Demographic change in Japan AC9HG10K07 reasons for, and consequences of, spatial variations in human wellbeing in Australia, including for First Nations Australians

Chapter 4 An unequal world 4.10 Wellbeing in Australia 4.11 Wellbeing in First Nations communities

AC9HG10K08 responses of international and national government and non-government organisations to improve human wellbeing in Australia, within India and another country in the Pacific

Chapter 6 Improving wellbeing 6.1 Improving wellbeing 6.2 Organisations working to improve wellbeing 6.3 Australia and foreign aid 6.4 The role of non-government organisations 6A Skills in Context: Charity 6.5 Improving wellbeing in Australia 6.6 Improving wellbeing of First Nations peoples 6.7 Improving wellbeing in India 6B Skills in Context: No place to call home: the wellbeing of stateless people

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