Auckland Seventh-Day Adventist H S Auckland Seventh-Day Adventist H S

NCEA Level 3 Geography

L3GEOG
Subject Description

Teacher in Charge: Dr C. Bootsman.


Course Outline 2019

 

Subject Name: Level 3 GEOGRAPHY

 

Subject Code: 13 GEOG

 

 

Introduction

This subject provides you with the opportunity to gain credits towards the National Certification of Education Achievement.

Please refer to your Student Diary for the NCEA Policies at ASDAH. The Geography department in general does not provide an opportunity for resubmission of internal achievement standards. You need to be aware of the Policies of Authenticity, Reassessment, Appeals, Absences and Lateness, Compassionate consideration and checking records of your results.

During this course:

  • Students learn more about applying geographic skills and ideas.
  • Students learn to do research in geography with consultation.
  • Students learn to understand and analyse contemporary and global geographic issues.
  • Students learn more about the tourism development process in Rotorua.
  • There is one excursion in Term 1.

 

 

Topic Guide

 

TERMS/ WEEKS

Topics to be covered

Topics to be covered

Term 1

 

Introduction to geographical concepts and skills [3 weeks]

  • A geographic research project [7 weeks]
  • Plan research, collect and record data, present data, analyse findings, draw research conclusions, evaluate the research process

Term 2

 

  • A study of a geographic issue [5 weeks]
  • A global geographic study [5 weeks]

 

  • Explain a contemporary issue, explain people’s responses, justify a proposed solution
  • Describe a global pattern, explain factors and processes, explain significance

Term 3

 

  • A study of a cultural process [7 weeks]
  • Geographical concepts and skills [3 weeks]
  • Analyse a cultural process (tourism process) and its impacts on the environment
  • Analyse environments, select and apply geographic concepts

 

 

This course can lead to: tertiary education or professional employment.

Vocational Pathways include: Construction and Infrastructure, Primary industries, Service industry, Social and community services, and Creative industries.

It can lead to such jobs as: forestry worker, quarry worker, miner, travel agent, flight attendant, immigration officer, environmental health officer, social worker, air traffic controller, ranger, secondary school teacher, judge, anthropologist, archaeologist, atmospheric scientist oceanographer, political scientist, mining engineer, sociologist, economist, environmental judge, solicitor, astronomer, geologist, geographer, demographer, volcanologist geophysicist, statistician, map maker, land surveyor, weather forecaster, natural resources engineer, etc.

 



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