Course Outlines - Humanities

Year 7

Tropical rainforest ecosystems – climate, vegetation and human activity, focusing on the Amazon rainforest.
Imperial China
Fragile environments - Antarctica
Improving the school environment. Sustainable development. Managing the lakeside at Golden Lake.
Ancient Greece
Tourism – where and when to go, types of holidays, planning holidays, locating a new tourist facility. Tourism in China.

Natural hazards – a study of earthquakes and volcanoes
Middle Ages
Weather and climate – how we measure the weather, why it rains, monsoon climates and typhoons. Microclimates – focusing on the school grounds
American War of Independence
Settlements, including map work
History of Hong Kong