Year 11 Geography

As a global citizen, students will gain skills and knowledge to better understand the world around them and prepare for future challenges.  This encourages them to take an active role in their community, examine various perspectives, critically analyse contemporary issues, and evaluate courses of action. 

Students will study both physical and human geography.

Physical geography focuses on the natural environment such as volcanic eruptions, and tsunamis, climate patterns, coastal processes, beach formations, and coral reefs. Students will study the natural processes, as well as, human responses to these 

Human geography focuses on human issues such as overpopulation, poverty, inequality, migration, and sustainable tourism. 

In Genesis 1 we read about how God created the earth around us and how we are to manage the resources in this world for the benefit of everyone. In Geography, we study how people interact with this environment that God has provided for us.

If you want to know what GEOGRAPHY is all about, click on this link: What is Geography? 

These include: 

• Extreme Natural Events - using case studies like Whakaari/White Island and Mount St. Helen's                                                (volcanic eruptions, earthquakes, tsunamis) 
• Sustainable Tourism at Waitomo Caves (Field Trip) 
• How much is too much? (population issues facing New Zealand and the world) 
• Geographic Skills (Maps, Graphing, Cartoons, Field Sketching)
• GIS (geographic information systems) 

Students will have the opportunity to carry out fieldwork within the BOP during a field trip related to the Year 11 course.