Geography

Year 10 Geography is an exciting subject for students who are curious about the world around them and want to understand how people and environments are connected. Students will explore some of the most significant environmental challenges facing Australia and the world, investigating how natural and human activities can cause environmental change. Through real-world case studies, they will examine issues such as climate change, deforestation, land degradation, and other environmental challenges, analysing their causes, impacts, and the strategies used to manage and respond to them.

Students will also discover how their everyday choices, from what they buy to how they travel, connect them to people, places, and environments across the globe. By exploring globalisation, sustainability, and human-environment interactions, students will gain a deeper understanding of how places are shaped and transformed over time. Through engaging investigations, mapping activities, research projects, and the analysis of contemporary issues, students will develop valuable critical thinking, problem-solving, and geographical inquiry skills while gaining a greater appreciation of the world they live in and their role in creating a more sustainable future.  

What You Will Learn

• Investigate different types of environmental change and explore how these changes occur in different places around the world. Students will examine issues such as climate change, deforestation, biodiversity loss, and land degradation, and analyse how their impacts vary between regions and environments.  
• Examine the environmental, economic, and technological factors that influence environmental change and management. Students will explore how human activities, technological developments, resource use, and economic growth can both contribute to and help address environmental challenges.  
• Explore different environmental worldviews and consider how people's values, beliefs, and perspectives influence decisions about protecting and managing the environment. Students will investigate how governments, businesses, communities, and individuals may approach environmental issues in different ways.  
• Analyse the causes and consequences of environmental change through case studies from Australia and around the world. Students will compare how different countries experience and respond to environmental challenges and evaluate the effectiveness of strategies used to create more sustainable futures. 

Semester 1

Year 10 Students will learn about environmental change and management & geographies of human wellbeing e.g. human-induced environmental changes and their impacts on the sustainability of places and environmental functions. 

Students will show their learning in various ways such as: 

• Class discussions 
• Collaborative work 
• Inquiry tasks 
• Real world case studies 
• Analysing the impacts of sustainability 
• Written work 

Semester 2

Year 10 Students will learn about environmental change and management & geographies of human wellbeing e.g. coastal changes and management.  

Students will show their learning in various ways such as: 

• Class discussions 
• Collaborative work 
• Inquiry tasks 
• Real-world case studies 
• Analysing the impacts of sustainability 
• Written work  

Assessment Areas

Inquiry task and analysis. 

Data and graph interpretation and analysis. 

Future School Pathways

VCE General

• VCE Geography