Stage 4 Tools & Skills - new NSW syllabus

Maps:

• 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 
  
  

Graphs and statistics

• 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