Craighead Diocesan School

Year 11 Diploma Geography

Subject Description

Teacher in Charge: Ms W. Johnston.

Topics Covered

* Students will be able to demonstrate knowledge of local and global contexts, through a geographic lens. They will be able to apply the different geographic concepts to these contexts.

* Students will demonstrate geographic thinking through anaylsis of data.

* Students will be able to present geographic research, including data collection, analysis and research evaluation, in a clear and written/oral form and a display board.

* Students will be able to demonstrate understanding of and apply geographic skills and concepts.

* Students will be able to demonstrate their digital literacy skills with geographic software, by presenting a wide range of GIS outputs, including a story map.

Year 11 Diploma: Geography

"There is no subject in the school curriculum so many-sided as Geography, and none of more practical value. It teaches history, literature, travel, business and, indeed, every phase of the everyday life of everybody, and its teaching in the schools ought to be that vitality which characterises the study itself." (Melville Dozier)

In Geography, we aspire to develop geographic thinkers who can interpret the interactions between people and place in a variety of contexts and methods. Students will explore a range of contexts both locally and at a global scale, encouraging students to see the geography in their everyday life. Students will learn and develop their geographic skill base, such as mapping (GIS, precis, topographic), graphing, perspectives, decision making and interpretation of data/texts, as well as draw on their skills from subjects such as English, Maths and Science. These skills will continue to be built upon in subsequent levels of Geography.

Course Overview:

* The Global Pattern of Cocoa Production (Cultural)

* The Global Patterns - Volcanoes (Natural)

* Process of Earthquakes (Natural)

* Urban development in New Zealand and Internationally

* Planning and evaluating Geographic Research

* Application of geographic skills and concepts

Departments:

Social Sciences

Assessment Information

1. Demonstrate understanding of how processes have shaped and impacted environments
2. Demonstrate understanding of the global spatial distribution of phenomena
3. Conduct geographic research with direction
4. Demonstrate understanding of decision-making in response to a geographic challenge