Welcome Year 8s to your new Year 8 Geography site. We will be using this site as a basis for our learning where everything will be accessible whether in class or at home. This will be the place to come for our lessons and for any extra information you may need.
Landscapes and Landforms
Exploration of the different landscapes within Australia and the landforms that make up each of them. Researching the value placed on landscapes either spiritual, cultural, aesthetic or economic. The spiritual connection that the Indigenous people have with the landforms and the Dreaming stories they pass down. Exploration of the geomorphic processes that produce landforms.
Changing Nations
Exploration of the causes and consequences of urbanisation including a case study on a country of the Asian region.
Human causes and effects
Researching the effects that humans have on landscape degradation through walkers and off-road vehicles, mining and urban development and exploring the ways we can protect the landscapes of Australia. Exploration of the way geomorphological hazards affect landscapes.