Geography Transformed NSW Stage 5 (print & digital) [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)

Components

Print Textbook
The text delivered in print format.

Access Code (found on the inside cover of the Print Textbook)
The 16-character code gives Cambridge GO access to:

• PDF Textbook: The downloadable PDF version of the student text enables students to take notes, highlight key passages, and bookmark pages.
• Interactive Textbook - "2 calendar-year subscription": The online version of the student text delivers a host of interactive features to enhance the teaching and learning experience of the student text. The Interactive Textbook is available as a "2 calendar-year subscription" which is defined as follows: if activation occurs between January and July of this year, subscription concludes on 31 December in the following year. If activation occurs between August and December of this year, subscription concludes on 31 December in the year after the following.

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