Are you interested in how rivers and local environments are managed? In the role of forests for people’s survival and wellbeing? Do you like being outdoors? Care about people’s rights and wonder why some countries have higher quality of life than others? Then Year 10 Geography is the right fit for you. With a field trip and investigations into the management and changes to our local environment; in depth studies into the development and wellbeing of countries all around the globe, you will be well placed for VCE Geography and a fulfilling career beyond. Be curious, be a Geographer!
Are you interested in Humanitarian Aid or Disaster Management? Want to learn more about Climate Change, how and how well earthquakes, volcanoes,floods, bushfires, drought, carp, Ebola, COVID-19 and other disasters are managed. Would you like to better understand tourism, its global significance and future? Refine your mapping, spatial technology, critical evaluation and assessment skills? Then pick up Year 11 Geography; a great foundation for Year 12 Geography. Be critical, be a Geographer!
What are the implications of turning more and more wheat into housing estates or tropical rainforests into soybean farms? What is happening to the world’s glaciers and ice sheets? Why are the main deserts of the world in the mid latitudes? What will happen to food security for a growing world population with increasing land degradation? Which countries will be future superpowers, which countries have growing or ageing populations. How do people on the ground, governments and global organisations manage all these changes and challenges. Use and further improve skills with your case studies and on field trips. Be a doer, be a Geographer!
For further information please refer to page 45 Year 10 & page 82 VCE of the St. Joseph's College Senior School Subject Information Handbook.
Website Global ForestWatch for Forest Monitoring
YouTube Blue Marble 3000
YouTube Do you know all 17 SDGs?
Website NASA Observatory
Website Spatial Technologies
Website Land Use and Planning Victoria
Website New Echuca Bridge Project
Website Glacier Retreat Time Lapse
Website Career Paths Geography
Website with embedded video career example I am a Geographer: Volcanologist,
Dr Adele Bear-Crozier
Website with embedded video career example I am a Geographer: Manager, Research and Development -Country Fire Authority (CFA), Sarah Harris