It explores the possibilities and limits of comparing past to present and present to past. It allows students to develop their critical powers and to grasp the superiority of thinking and evaluation over an impulsive and uninformed rush to judgement and decision. It allows students to gain historical knowledge and skills, and to evaluate competing versions of the past within a rational framework of inquiry. Through an investigation of history, students learn about the differences in human experience, allowing them to compare their lives with those of people of other times, places and circumstances and, in turn, to learn to know themselves. You may view the complete NSW Geography Stages 4 and 5 here, including the tables of outcomes.
Outcomes express the specific intended results of the teaching of the syllabus.
They are derived from the content of the syllabus and arranged in Stages. The outcomes are placed before the content relating to geographical tools, skills, values and attitudes and before the content of each focus area to indicate their importance in guiding teaching and learning. In a programmed unit of work students will work towards achieving several outcomes. It is not expected that students will achieve any one outcome in any single unit of work. The key learning area of Human Society and Its Environment involves the study of people, cultures, societies and environments in different places and at different times.