Geography Transformed NSW Stage 5 (digital code) [Due Oct 2026]

Pre-order: due Oct 2026 (Cambridge University Press release date). Orders will be supplied on release.

For 2027 implementation of the new NSW 7-10 Geography Syllabus (2024)

Digital Code

This is a digital access code only – no printed textbook is included. The code gives Cambridge GO access to:

• PDF Textbook: the downloadable PDF version of the student text.
• Interactive Textbook – 2 calendar-year subscription: the online version of the student text with interactive features. Subscription term: if activation occurs between January and July, the subscription concludes on 31 December the following year; if activation occurs between August and December, it concludes on 31 December the year after the following.

Print & digital edition: ISBN 9781009788083.

Overview

Geography Transformed NSW Stage 5 provides the right balance of knowledge-rich content and accessible skills development. A dedicated skills chapter per focus area featuring videos from Geography Skills Online, differentiated activities, and a range of engaging maps, graphs and geographical data, will develop a deep understanding of geography. Explicit writing instruction embedded in each content chapter transforms the way students communicate and learn. The online version of the student book delivers a host of interactive features to enhance the teaching and learning experience.

Features

• Engaging global and local case studies, including chapter-length, in-depth options, allow students to connect key syllabus content to real-world contexts.
• Content is structured to reduce student cognitive load with clear learning intentions and success criteria, easily digestible amounts of text and a visually appealing layout featuring maps, images, diagrams, graphs and charts.
• Skills development is curated across the series by our authors through dedicated skills chapters within each focus area, delivering key skills in the context of the content and case studies.
• Cambridge's evidence-based approach to building writing skills, developed with NSW-based literacy experts, makes use of high-impact writing strategies in every lesson including 'Writing focus' worksheets, a range of activities that gradually increase in language and cognitive verbs, digital quizzes, and chapter review activities with model answers.
• Innovative digital resources familiar to NSW students include geography skills videos created by Geography Skills Online, Scorcher competitions, auto-marked quizzes and workspaces for written response questions.

Stage 5 Table of Contents

Focus area: Biomes and sustainable agriculture
Chapter 1 Biomes and productivity
Chapter 2 Geographical skills: Mapping Earth's biomes
Chapter 3 Case study: Factors influencing food production in Australia and Asia
Chapter 4 Towards food security
Focus area: Changing places
Chapter 5 Case study: Movement of people
Chapter 6 International Migration and Australia
Chapter 7 Geographical skills: What demographics tell us about places
Chapter 8 Changing settlement patterns and planning for urban sustainability
Focus area: Environmental management and change
Chapter 9 Environmental change
Chapter 10 Geographical skills: Mapping change across environments
Chapter 11 Environmental management
Chapter 12 Case study: Australia and the Canary Islands
Focus area: Human wellbeing
Chapter 13 Human wellbeing and development
Chapter 14 Geographical skills: Human wellbeing
Chapter 15 Case study: Variations in and improving human wellbeing: Australia
Chapter 16 Case study: Variations in and improving human wellbeing: Denmark and India