Geography, Secondary Cycle One (Secondary 1-2)

Unit 1: Urban territory

Cities as territories: the metropolis, the city living with natural hazards, and the heritage city - how each is located, organized, developed, and challenged.

• Situating and characterizing a metropolis
• Planning and developing a metropolis
• Issues facing a metropolis

• Situating a city subject to natural hazards
• Planning a city for natural hazards
• When a hazard becomes a disaster

• Situating and characterizing a heritage city
• Protecting and accessing a heritage site
• Protecting heritage under pressure

Unit 2: Regional territory

Regions defined by an activity: tourism, forestry, energy, and industry - how each region is located, characterized, developed, and challenged.

• Situating and characterizing a tourist region
• Developing a tourist region
• The two faces of tourism

• Situating and characterizing a forest region
• From forest to market
• Exhausting or renewing the forest

• Situating and characterizing an energy region
• Producing and transporting energy
• The cost of energy

• Situating and characterizing an industrial region
• Developing an industrial region
• Pollution, decline, and relocation

Unit 3: Agricultural territory

Farmland as territory: an agricultural territory in a national space and one subject to natural hazards - how each feeds people, is developed, and is threatened.

• Situating and characterizing an agricultural territory
• Farming practices and productivity
• Farming and its impacts

• Farmland in a hazard zone
• Protecting hazard-prone farmland
• When people intensify the risk

Unit 4: Native territory

First Nations and Inuit territories: their location, cultures, ancestral rights, self-governance and the agreements with the government of Quebec, how they are organized and developed, and the claims still to be resolved. Taught truthfully and respectfully as real governance and land questions.

• First Nations and Inuit territories and cultures
• Ancestral rights, agreements, and self-governance
• Organizing and developing the territory
• Shared territory, impacts, and unresolved claims

Unit 5: Protected territory

The natural park as a protected territory: how it is located, what it protects, how it is zoned and developed, and the tension between conservation and use.

• Situating and characterizing a natural park
• Zoning and developing a park
• Conservation versus use

Unit 6: Techniques used in geography

The geographer's toolkit: sketching and drawing maps, interpreting maps and documents, and working with tables and graphs. Method skills taught in their own right, woven through the territory studies.

• Reading and sketching a landscape
• Drawing a simple map

• Interpreting a map
• Interpreting written and illustrated documents

• Interpreting a table and graph
• Constructing a table and graph