Global Interactions For Stage 6 Syllabus

New stimulus material ensures the fourth edition resources are relevant and appealing to contemporary students and teachers. This includes updates to:

• topics
• case studies
• statistics
• imagery.

Every chapter explores the content through examples of the big issues in our contemporary world, including the effects of climate change, contested space in the South China Sea, COVID-19, the war in Ukraine, bushfires, and examples of global sustainability and biodiversity. Extensive case study chapters cover a range of the most popular ‘option’ topics in the new sylllabus, as voted by teachers.

For Year 11 the case study chapters include:

• Deforestation
• Glaciers and ice sheets
• Desertification
• Place and Political change
• Political power and contested spaces
• Human resilience in diverse environments
• Climate change
• Contemporary hazard: Bushfires
• Contemporary hazard: COVID-19.

For Year 12 the case study chapters include:

• Global tourism and its sustainability
• Global winemaking and its sustainability
• Rural place: Tamworth, NSW
• Urban place: Darling Harbour and the Bays precinct, NSW
• Large city outside Australia: New York City
• Large city outside Australia: Mumbai
• Ecosystem study: Great Barrier Reef, QLD
• Ecosystem study: Fjordlands of New Zealand.

In the fourth edition, the chapter glossaries are now positioned at the front of each chapter, allowing students to familiarise themselves with key terms before progressing with the chapter content.

The glossaries provide an easy reference for more than 350 key terms, which are identified throughout the chapter content with bold text.

Extended glossaries are included for chapters requiring greater vocabulary support for students.

Developed specifically for the Geography 11–12 Syllabus (2022), the Global Interactions Student Books offer:

• a fresh layout with updated case studies and statistics
• dynamic and relevant images
• textual examples
• engaging graphs and maps.

The electronic versions of the Global Interactions Student Books help students access:

• coursework on any device, online or offline
• digtal toolkit of resources and downloadable worksheets and interactive activities to support understanding of key geographical skills, including graphs, maps and statistics.

Global Interactions provides educators with access to support materials to enrich the content and save time, including:

• a teaching and learning program, which maps the resource content page by page against the syllabus dot points and offers teaching and learning programming for the knowledge, skills and tools of the new syllabus
• support for teachers via a digital toolkit for students that offers activities to develop a strong understanding of key geographical skills, including graphs, maps and statistics
• sample responses with differentiated and constructed answers to help students develop the skills required for exam preparation, provided in the Year 12 resources.

The Year 11 teaching and learning program is double the size of the program in the previous edition of Global Interactions. This 32-page program maps the resource content page by page against the syllabus dot points, offers teaching and learning programming for the knowledge, skills and tools of the new syllabus.

Global Interactions 11 Fourth Edition has been written for the new Year 11 syllabus, to be taught from Term 1, 2024. The resources will be available in December 2023.

Table of contents: Global Interactions 11 Fourth Edition

• Chapter 1: Geography: An introduction

Section 1: Earth's natural systems

• Chapter 2: The uniqueness and diversity of Earth
• Chapter 3: Earth's natural systems at work
• Chapter 4: Land cover change
• Chapter 5: Deforestation
• Chapter 6: Glaciers and ice sheets
• Chapter G1: Desertification (DIGITAL-ONLY chapter)

Section 2: People, patterns and processes

• Chapter 7: Human activity on Earth
• Chapter 8: Our increasingly integrated world
• Chapter 9: Population and resource consumption
• Chapter 10: Place and cultural change
• Chapter 11: Political power and contested spaces
• Chapter G2: Human resilience in diverse environments (DIGITAL-ONLY chapter)

Section 3: Human–environment interactions

• Chapter 12: Changes to Earth's natural systems
• Chapter 13: Climate change
• Chapter 14: Contemporary hazard: Bushfires
• Chapter 15: Contemporary hazard: COVID-19

Section 4: Geographical investigation

• Chapter 16: Contemporary geographical inquiry
• Chapter 17: Undertaking geographical investigation

Global Interactions 12 Fourth Edition has been written for the new Year 12 syllabus, to be taught from Term 4, 2024. The resources will be available in September 2024.

Table of contents: Global Interactions 12 Fourth Edition

• Chapter 1: Geography in the contemporary world

Section 1: Global sustainability

• Chapter 2: Sustainability in the contemporary world
• Chapter 3: Global tourism and its sustainability
• Chapter 4: Global winemaking and its sustainability
• Chapter 5: Global energy production and its sustainability

Section 2: Rural and urban places

• Chapter 6: Rural and urban settlement
• Chapter 7: Rural place: Tamworth, NSW
• Chapter 8: Urban place: Darling Harbour and the Bays precinct
• Chapter 9: Large city outside Australia: New York City
• Chapter 10: Large city outside Australia: Mumbai

Section 3: Ecosystems and global biodiversity

• Chapter 11: Ecosystems and biodiversity
• Chapter 12: Ecosystems study: Great Barrier Reef
• Chapter 13: Ecosystems study: Fiordlands of New Zealand