Geography
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Geographical knowledge and understanding
The Geographical knowledge and understanding dimension covers the patterns and interactions of physical and human phenomena on the surface of the Earth and the processes that created them. It focuses on spatial concepts: location, distance, distribution, location, movement, region, scale, spatial change over time, spatial association, spatial interaction and scale. These concepts underpin the kinds of questions geographers ask and help students to organise the vast amount of information and ideas that geography uses to understand the regularities, intricacies and uncertainties of occurrences on the Earth’s surface.
Students learn to ask a series of geographical questions and follow an inquiry-based approach incorporating identification, observation, description, analysis, explanation, synthesis and evaluation. This extends their understanding and provides students with a well-researched, informed spatial perspective to apply to local and global issues, including sustainable use and management of the world’s resources.
Geospatial skills
In the Geospatial skills dimension students read and interpret maps of different kinds and at different scales, including street directories, atlas maps, ordnance survey maps and topographic maps. Students identify and collect information from maps, plans, photographs, satellite images, statistical data, and information and communications technology based resources; and record and represent data in different types of maps, graphs, tables, sketches, diagrams and photographs. Students develop skills in gathering information first-hand from fieldwork studies. They make observations, take field measurements, conduct surveys and interviews, map and record phenomena in a range of settings.
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References
- Geography (http://vels.vcaa.vic.edu.au/essential/discipline/humanities/geography/index.html) | Discipline-based Learning (http://vels.vcaa.vic.edu.au/essential/discipline/index.html) | P-10 Curriculum and Standards (http://vels.vcaa.vic.edu.au/essential/index.html) | VELS HOME (http://vels.vcaa.vic.edu.au/)
- GTAV (http://www.gtav.asn.au/) Geography Teachers Association of Victoria
- AGTA (http://www.agta.asn.au/) Australian Geography Teachers' Association
- EuroGeo (http://www.restena.lu/aleg/eurogeo/index.htm) European Network of Geography Teachers' Associations
