Oxford Big Ideas Geography - Australian Curriculum Edition: Year 10 - Student Book + obook/assess (Print & Digital)

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Oxford Big Ideas Geography explicitly integrates content and skills from both strands of 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.

The obook is a cloud-based web-book available anywhere, anytime, on any device, navigated by topic or by ‘page view’. assess is an indispensable online assessment tool, explicitly mapped to the Australian Curriculum that drives student progress through tailored instruction. As well as containing the student text and study tools, this obook offers virtual case studies including interactive maps, videos and other interactives.

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Features

• 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 and learning styles.

Digital Components The obook is Oxford’s next generation ebook. Each obook offers online and offline access to the complete range of content at each year level. All obook content is:

• Presented in a web-style environment suitable for any screen size or device
• Contains a range of purpose-built interactive resources, links to video, audio and supporting websites
• Allows students to take notes, highlight, save and export their work
• Provides access to the complete Australian Concise Oxford Dictionary in addition to a subject-specific Geography glossary.

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Contents

THE GEOGRAPHER’S TOOLKIT – CONCEPTS AND SKILLS

UNIT 1 ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE AND MANAGEMENT

CHAPTER 1 CHANGING AND MANAGING THE ENVIRONMENT

• 1.1 How do human activities affect the environment?
• 1.2 How do people change and manage the land?
• 1.3 How do people change and manage fresh water?

CHAPTER 2 COASTAL CHANGE AND MANAGEMENT

• 2.1 How is the coastal environment changing?
• 2.2 How can coastal changes be managed?
• 2.3 How can geographers help to manage coastal changes?

UNIT 2 GEOGRAPHIES OF HUMAN WELLBEING

CHAPTER 3 AN UNEQUAL WORLD

• 3.1 How does wellbeing vary around the world?
• 3.2 How does wellbeing vary within countries?

CHAPTER 4 INEQUALITIES IN WELLBEING

• 4.1 How does the natural environment cause inequality?
• 4.2 How do human activities cause inequality?

CHAPTER 5 IMPROVING HUMAN WELLBEING

• 5.1 How can we improve wellbeing?
• 5.2 Who is working to improve wellbeing?