Stage 4 Tools & Skills - 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