Geography NSW for the AC Stage 5 Year 9 and 10 Print and Digital

Components

Print Textbook
The text delivered in print format.

Access Code (found on the inside cover of the Print Textbook)
The 16-character code gives Cambridge GO access to:

• PDF Textbook: The downloadable PDF version of the student text enables students to take notes, highlight key passages, and bookmark pages.
• Interactive Textbook - 2 year access: The online version of the student text delivers a host of interactive features to enhance the teaching and learning experience of the student text.

Foster curiosity, understanding and respect for the places, environments and people of our world.

Developed as two separate stage books to provide the flexibility to teach content over either year level, Geography NSW Syllabus for the Australian Curriculum caters for the range of learning styles and abilities in New South Wales classrooms without sacrificing depth and quality of content.

• Provides an inquiry-based approach to support the study of geography, with complete coverage of the NSW Syllabus for the Australian Curriculum.
• Helps students become informed, responsible and active citizens as they explore and question key concepts and apply essential skills and tools to study the places, peoples, cultures and environments that make up our world.
• Written by highly experienced teachers and renowned academics from across Australia. Series Editor, Kate Thompson, offers extensive experience and an understanding of what works in NSW classrooms.
• The included Interactive Textbook offers additional content, together with a host of rich media resources and interactive activities, to bring the study of geography to life.

Contents

Geographical skills toolkit

TOPIC 1 SUSTAINABLE BIOMES

• 1 Biomes
• 2 Changing biomes
• 3 Biomes produce food
• 4 Challenges to food production
• 5 Food security

TOPIC 2 CHANGING PLACES

• 6 Causes and consequences of urbanisation
• 7 Urban settlement patterns
• 8 Internal migration
• 9 International migration
• 10 Australia’s urban future

TOPIC 3 ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE AND MANAGEMENT

• 11 Environments
• 12 Environmental change
• 13 Environmental management
• 14 Investigative study – Marine environments

Additional investigative study chapters available in the Interactive Textbook and on Cambridge GO:

• 14a Investigative study – Land environments
• 14b Investigative study – Inland water environments
• 14c Investigative study – Coastal environments
• 14d Investigative study – Urban environments

TOPIC 4 HUMAN WELLBEING

• 15 Human wellbeing and development
• 16 Spatial variations in human wellbeing
• 17 Human wellbeing in Australia 18 Improving human wellbeing
• 18 Improving human wellbeing

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