VCE resources
Overview
New Perspectives
The GTAV is publishing two exciting new textbooks to replace New Perspectives and New Perspectives Supplement. The changes and new material take into account the many suggestions and ideas provided by VCE Geography teachers.
Geography Environments (VCE Units1 and 2)
Price: $54.95 (incl. GST)
ISBN: 978-1-876703-21-9
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Chapters:
1. Essential Skills
2. Introduction to Natural Environments
3. Volcanic Environments
4. Victorian Forest Environments
5. Coastal Environments
Glossary: Natural Environments
6. Introduction to Human Environments
7. Vietnam: A Changing Human Environment
8. Melbourne: An Urban Environment
9. Yarra Valley: A Rural Environment
Glossary: Human Environments
Resources & Perspectives (VCE Units3 and 4)
Price:
$79.95 (incl. GST)
ISBN: 978-1-876703-22-6
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Chapters:
1. Essential Skills
2. Introduction to Regional Resources
3. The Importance of Water
4. The Murray Darling Basin
5. Cape Woolamai: a local coastal recreation resource
6. Chapel Street: a local retail resource
7. Haining Farm: a local farming resource
Glossary: Regional Resources
8. Introduction to Global Perspectives
9. Population
10. Climate Change
11. Fishing
12. Desertification
13. Disease
Glossary: Global Perspectives
14. Approaching the VCE exam
What to expect in the new textbooks
- All topics have been fully revised and updated providing students with the current information and data
to meet the VCE Geography study design outcomes.
- The chapters in Geography Environments (VCE Units1 and 2) include a sample SAC for students to
complete.
- Resources and Perspectives (VCE Units 3 and 4) includes a chapter with sample annotated
questions and answers that guide students on how to approach exam questions.
- The skills chapter in each text book includes examples appropriate to the topics studied for
Units 1 and 2 / 3 and 4.
- Two new chapters in Resources and Perspectives – A Local Farming Resource and Disease.
- A new emphasis for the Phillip Island chapter as Cape Woolamai: a local coastal recreation resource.
- A glossary of terms at the end of each unit section.
- Key knowledge and skills specified throughout each chapter.
VCAA Study design
Skills
