Stage 4 Skills - current syllabus
Maps
- use an atlas
- use various types of maps: physical, political, topographic, thematic
- identify and use elements of maps, including legend, direction, title, scale, border
- distinguish between different types of map projections
- locate features on a map using:
- latitude and longitude
- area and grid references
- identify physical and cultural features on a map
- measure distances on a map using a linear scale
- identify scale as written, linear or representative fraction
- use the points of a compass to determine direction
- identify and interpret relief using shading, spot heights, colour and contour lines
- construct a sketch map
- read synoptic charts: wind direction and speed, pressure patterns, fronts and rainfall
- use various types of maps: physical, political, topographic, thematic
- identify and use elements of maps, including legend, direction, title, scale, border
- distinguish between different types of map projections
- locate features on a map using:
- latitude and longitude
- area and grid references
- identify physical and cultural features on a map
- measure distances on a map using a linear scale
- identify scale as written, linear or representative fraction
- use the points of a compass to determine direction
- identify and interpret relief using shading, spot heights, colour and contour lines
- construct a sketch map
- read synoptic charts: wind direction and speed, pressure patterns, fronts and rainfall
Fieldwork
- use geographical instruments, including:
- a compass to determine direction
- a clinometer and tape
- weather instruments, a Beaufort wind scale and cloud identification charts
- vegetation identification charts
- collect and record data in the field including:
- design and conduct interviews
- construct and implement surveys
- fieldsketch, diagrams
- a compass to determine direction
- a clinometer and tape
- weather instruments, a Beaufort wind scale and cloud identification charts
- vegetation identification charts
- collect and record data in the field including:
- design and conduct interviews
- construct and implement surveys
- fieldsketch, diagrams
Graphs and statistics
- identify and calculate maximum, minimum, total, range, rank and average
- construct and interpret bar, column, line, climatic and proportional graphs
- construct and interpret bar, column, line, climatic and proportional graphs
Photographs
- draw a line drawing
- distinguish between oblique, aerial, ground level photographs and satellite imagery
- collect and interpret photograph images
Board of Studies syllabus
- distinguish between oblique, aerial, ground level photographs and satellite imagery
- collect and interpret photograph images
Board of Studies syllabus
Stage 4 Tools - new NSW syllabus
Maps:
Maps to identify:
Fieldwork:
Fieldwork instruments such as :
Spatial technologies
Visual representations
New NSW BOSTES Geography syllabus
- Sketch map,
- relief maps,
- political maps,
- topographic maps,
- flowline maps,
- choropleth maps,
- isoline maps,
- précis maps,
- cartograms,
- synoptic charts
Maps to identify:
- Direction
- scale and distance,
- area and grid references,
- latitude and longitude,
- altitude,
- area,
- contour lines,
- gradient,
- local relief
Fieldwork:
- observing,
- measuring,
- collecting
- recording data,
- developing and conducting surveys and interviews
Fieldwork instruments such as :
- weather instruments,
- vegetation identification charts,
- compasses,
- GPS,
- GIS
- data tables
- pie graphs
- column graphs
- compound column graphs
- line graphs
- climate graphs
- population profiles
- multiple tables and graphs presented on a geographical theme
- statistics to find patterns and trends
Spatial technologies
- virtual maps
- satellite images
- global positioning systems (GPS)
- geographic information systems (GIS)
Visual representations
- photographs
- aerial photographs
- illustrations
- flow charts
- annotated diagrams
- multimedia
- field sketches
- cartoons
- web tools
New NSW BOSTES Geography syllabus
