Geographical concepts Geographical inquiry skills Geographical tools Place: the significance of places Acquiring geographical Maps – and what they are like eg information pictorial maps, large-scale location and features of local pose geographical maps, world map, globe places and other places in the questions (ACHGS007, world Fieldwork – ACHGS013) Space: the significance of observing, collecting and collect and record location and spatial distribution, recording data, conducting geographical data and and ways people organise and surveys information, for example, by manage the spaces that we live observing, by interviewing, or Graphs and statistics – in eg where activities are located using visual and how spaces can be tally charts, pictographs, representations (ACHGS008, organised. data tables, column graphs, ACHGS014) weather data Environment: the significance of Processing geographical the environment in human life, Spatial technologies information – and the important virtual maps, satellite represent data by interrelationships between images constructing tables, graphs or humans and the environment eg maps (ACHGS009, natural and human features of a Visual representations – ACHGS015) place; daily and seasonal photographs, illustrations, draw conclusions based on weather patterns of places. diagrams, story books, the interpretation of Interconnection: no object of multimedia, web tools geographical information geographical study can be sorted into viewed in isolation eg local and categories (ACHGS010, global links people have with ACHGS016) places and the special Communicating geographical connection Aboriginal and Torres information Strait Islander Peoples maintain with Country/Place. present findings in a range of communication Scale: the way that geographical forms (ACHGS011, phenomena and problems can ACHGS017) be examined at different spatial levels eg various scales by which reflect on their learning and places can be defined such as suggest responses to their local suburbs, towns and large findings (ACHGS012, cities. ACHGS018)
Geographical concepts Geographical inquiry skills Geographical tools Place: the significance of places and what they are like eg location and features of local places and other places in the world Space: the significance of location and spatial distribution, and ways people organise and manage the spaces that we live in eg where activities are located and how spaces can be organised. Environment: the significance of the environment in human life, and the important interrelationships between humans and the environment eg natural and human features of a place; daily and seasonal weather patterns of places. Interconnection: no object of geographical study can be viewed in isolation eg local and global links people have with places and the special connection Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples maintain with Country/Place. Scale: the way that geographical phenomena and problems can be examined at different spatial levels eg various scales by which places can be defined such as local suburbs, towns and large cities. Acquiring geographical information pose geographical questions (ACHGS007, ACHGS013) collect and record geographical data and information, for example, by observing, by interviewing, or using visual representations (ACHGS008, ACHGS014) Processing geographical information represent data by constructing tables, graphs or maps (ACHGS009, ACHGS015) draw conclusions based on the interpretation of geographical information sorted into categories (ACHGS010, ACHGS016) Communicating geographical information present findings in a range of communication forms (ACHGS011, ACHGS017) reflect on their learning and suggest responses to their findings (ACHGS012, ACHGS018) Maps – pictorial maps, large-scale maps, world map, globe Fieldwork – observing, collecting and recording data, conducting surveys Graphs and statistics – tally charts, pictographs, data tables, column graphs, weather data Spatial technologies – virtual maps, satellite images Visual representations – photographs, illustrations, diagrams, story books, multimedia, web tools
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