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Oxford Big Ideas Geography Australian Curriculum

• Explicitly integrates content and skills from both strands of the Australian Curriculum Geography:
– Geographical Knowledge and Understanding
– Geographical Inquiry and Skills.
• Provides comprehensive coverage of ‘Concepts for geographical understanding’ – concepts are clearly explained and supported with worked examples, then revisited with increasing complexity throughout each chapter to reinforce student understanding.
• Organises learning around meaningful inquiry-based questions, or big ideas, that are closely mapped to the content of the Australian Curriculum: Geography.
• Provides a complete teaching and learning program from Year 7 to 10 across a range of print, digital, and blended resources.

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• Content tailored to the needs of your classroom—each unit is enhanced by a range of engaging learning resources (such as stunning artwork, maps and differentiated tasks) designed to ensure full coverage of the syllabus within the allocated class time.
• Purpose-written content and learning resources cater to a wide range of student abilities learning styles.
• Provides a complete teaching and learning program at each year level from Years 7–10, across print (student text), digital (obook), and blended (text + obook) and (teacher kit + obook) formats.

Using Oxford Big Ideas Geography
Australian Curriculum: Geography 7 – Scope and sequence   

The geographer’s toolkit
Concepts for geographical understanding

• Place
• Space
• Environment
• Interconnection
• Sustainability
• Scale
• Change

Geographical inquiry and skills

• Observing, questioning and planning
• Collecting, recording, evaluating and representing
• Analysing and concluding
• Communicating
• Reflecting and responding

Fieldwork in geography

UNIT 1 Water in the world
Chapter 1 Water as a resource
1.1 What are environmental resources?    
1.2 Where is water found?
1.3 How is water used?    

Chapter 2 Managing water
2.1 Why is water a difficult resource to manage?
2.2 How can we use water more sustainably?
2.3 How do people respond to floods?

UNIT 2 Places are for living in
Chapter 3 Where people live
3.1 What are local communities like?
3.2 Where do Australians live?
3.3 Why do people move?

Chapter 4 Liveable places
4.1 What makes a place liveable?
4.2 Where are the world's most liveable cities?
4.3 How can we make places more liveable?

Glossary
Index   
Acknowledgements   

Mark Easton is a full-time teacher and Head of Humanities at Saint Margaret’s School in Berwick. He has taught Geography, History and English for over twenty years and over the last decade has contributed to many school textbooks and atlases and has also written a novel, Kazim the Great.