Yr 6 Students will study two units. 1. Passport to Asia - This unit focuses on the characteristics of a place and how they are the result of cause and effect relationships within the place, and with other places. It looks at how places are connected to other places, locally, regionally and globally through the movement of people and human events.
2. Natural Hazards - This unit will focus on natural disasters and other hazards that are recurring features of seasonal changes to environments.
Year 7 students will study two units. 1. It Flows. - This unit focuses on environmental resources, using water as a case study. It exams water as an essential, renewable resource and it's role in natural hazards.
2. Liveability. - This unit focuses on investigating the reasons why people decide to live where they do, at a variety of scales and in the context of the environmental, economic, social and other factors that might influence decision making.
Year 8 Students will study two units. 1. Fantastic Formations - This unit focuses on the nature of landscapes and the forces, processes and factors which shape them physically, as well as people's perceptions and use of them.
2. Urban Myths - This unit focuses on the geographical concepts of place and space, beginning with the student's experience of daily life and developing into an investigation of community and neighbourhood and how these can be defined and understood
In Year 9 students will study one geography unit. 1. Biomes a Plenty... -This unit focuses on the connectedness of humans and the World's natural and man made biomes. Through inquiry students look at the world food needs and how different countries and providing for their growing populations.
2. Connnections. - This unit focuses on how we are all connected to each other. It uses the students own interests to look at how social media, popular culture, radio, television and materialism encourages globalisation.