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.

Year 8

  • 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