Students, Parents/Carers Handbook

Humanities - Passport to the World

Subject Area: Humanities / Geography

 

Unit of Study: Passport to the World

 

Brief Description: Passport to the World will investigate the global industry of tourism, and the economic, geographic, and political ins-and-outs that drive this multi-billion dollar sector. Students will look at the movement of people across the world, and understand why, how, and where people travel.

 

Scaffolding Learning

At the conclusion of this unit of study students will have: 

 

An understanding of key knowledge

  • Ways in which transportation and information and communication technologies are used to connect people to services, information and people in other places (VCGGK140)
  • Ways that places and people are interconnected with other places through trade in goods and services, at all scales (VCGGK141)
  • Effects of people’s travel, recreational, cultural or leisure choices on places, and the implications for the future of these places (VCGGK143)

Attained these key skills 

  • Identify, analyse and explain significant interconnections within places and between places over time and at different scales, and evaluate the resulting changes and further consequences (VCGGC129)
  • Collect and record relevant geographical data and information, using ethical protocols, from reliable and useful primary and secondary sources (VCGGC130)
  • Analyse and evaluate data, maps and other geographical information using digital and spatial technologies and Geographical Information Systems as appropriate, to develop identifications, descriptions, explanations and conclusions that use geographical terminology (VCGGC132)

Demonstrated the Victorian curriculum standards and capabilities

  • Sustainability
  • Intercultural capability
  • Ethical capability
  • Literacy and numeracy

Assessment Tasks

Students will be required to complete the following assessment tasks:

  • Tourism Industry Report
  • Gathering Data and Fieldwork - Combined Excursion and Assessment
  • Destination: The World - Capstone Project

Additional learning opportunities

  • Excursion to one of Melbourne’s hottest tourist attractions as part of AT2
  • Presentation of capstone project
  • Speaker - Gus Balbontin (Former executive director of Lonely Planet)

Resources

  • Matilda Education - Year 10 Humanities Textbook
  • Digital device (laptops preferred)

Pathways

This unit of study could provide students with the following pathway.