This document provides an overview of the Year 9 Geography course for 2017, including three main areas of study, assessment tasks, and key geographical concepts. Assessment tasks will include tests, fieldwork, and a research assignment to evaluate students' geographical skills and knowledge. The course will cover biomes, food security, and geographies of interconnection. Key geographical concepts from Year 8 like place, space, and sustainability will also be emphasized.

1. Welcome toYear 9
Geography

2. Major areas of study forYear 9
Geography in 2017
Key geographical concepts
Biomes
Food Security
Geographies of Interconnection
Skills

3. Assessment
Tasks
■ The major summative assessment tasks
this semester will test your geographical
skills and also your recall and application
of knowledge.They will relate to each of
our main areas of study.
■ Assessment tasks will be spread
throughout the semester.They will
include things such as a test, fieldwork
and a research assignment.
■ There will also be various formative or
minor assessments throughout the
semester designed to help you with your
knowledge and understanding of each
topic.

4. Key geographical
concepts
Key geographical concepts are the organizing concepts common
to all branches of geography. Although there are many organizing
concepts, there are 7 commonly recognized concepts used in
Middle School. You should be familiar with these from Year 8 but
just in case the concepts are listed below:
■ Place
■ Space
■ Environment
■ Interconnection
■ Sustainability
■ Scale
■ Change

5. Unit 1: Geographies of Interconnection

6. Looking at the
previous slide
note down some
ideas of what
you think the
unit on
Geographies of
Interconnections
will be about.

7. What does this image
mean?What does it tell us
about the role of humans in
relation to the existence of
the Earth?

8. What types of
Geography are there?
■ PhysicalGeography: e.g. rocks and
minerals, landforms, soils, water, animals,
plants, atmosphere, environment, climate
and weather
■ Human Geography: e.g. population,
settlements, transportation, economic
activities, recreational activities, religion,
political systems, social traditions,
migration, agricultural systems
■ Geotechniques: GPS, GIS, cartography,
remote sensing

9. Where does Geography fit in the real
world?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sgGb8BM2TBk
■ Geography is a link between natural and social sciences.
■ Geography is a very holistic subject in that it connects to so many different things in
our lives
■ A lot of things which are part of our daily lives link to Geography e.g. where our food
comes from, how we get to school, where our clothes are produced, where we travel
to on holidays, what the weather will be like
■ Decisions for the future link to Geography also e.g. how we manage our environment,
who we elect as our political leaders, which products we choose to buy

10. Why is Geography
important?
■ Why do you think Geography is important?Think
about some of the ideas on the previous slide

11. Geography reflection and goals for 2017
1. How did you find Geography inYear 8? Rate yourself out of 5 (1 = low, 5 = high) against
the following:
■ Enjoyment of Geography – how much did you enjoy your Geography lessons?
■ Level of understanding – how well did you understand the work and the topics?
■ Geographic skills – how do you rate your skills in mapping, resource interpretation and
presentation of work?
2. List 3 goals or things you would like to achieve in geography this semester.Try to
make these specific to Geography rather than just “I want to get As in my
assessments” (e.g. always remember to use BOLTSS when doing mapwork)
3. Other comments – anything else you would like to tell your teacher about your
attitude towards Geography or yourself as a geographer…..

12. ■ Submit this PowerPoint with your responses to each of the tasks on Classe,
Assessment Dropbox, ClassTasks and Homework folder