Outcomes

A student:

GE2-1: examines features and characteristics of places and environments

GE2-2: describes the ways people, places and environments interact

GE2-4: acquires and communicates geographical information using geographical tools for inquiry

Content

Different environments

Students:

• investigate the natural characteristics of Australia and a country in Asia, for example: (ACHGK020)

• comparison of climate, natural vegetation and native animals

Significance of environments

Students:

• investigate the importance of natural vegetation and natural resources to the environment, animals and people, for example: (ACHGK021, ACHGK022, ACHGK024)

• identification of types of natural vegetation eg forests, grasslands, deserts

• explanation of the importance of natural vegetation to animals and the functioning of the environment eg provision of habitats, production of oxygen

Perception of environments

Students:

• investigate the ways people, including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples, value environments, for example: (ACHGK022, ACHGK023, ACHGK024)

• discussion of why people value environments differently eg cultural, agricultural, commercial, recreational values

• description of how custodial responsibility for Country/Place influences Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples’ views of the environment

Critical and Creative Thinking

Inquiring – identifying, exploring and organising information and ideas

• identify main ideas and select and clarify information from a range of sources

• collect, compare and categorise facts and opinions found in a widening range of sources

Reflecting on thinking and processes

• reflect on, explain and check the processes used to come to conclusions

• transfer and apply information in one setting to enrich another

Analysing, synthesising and evaluating reasoning and procedures

• draw on prior knowledge and use evidence when choosing a course of action or drawing a conclusion

• explain and justify ideas and outcomes

Information and Communication Technology (ICT) Capability

Applying social and ethical protocols and practices when using ICT

• acknowledge when they use digital products created by someone else, and start to indicate the source

• identify the value and role of ICT use at home and school

Investigating with ICT

• use ICT to plan an information search or generation of information, recognising some pattern within the information,

• explain why located data or information was selected

• locate, retrieve or generate information from a range of digital sources

Creating with ICT

• create and modify simple digital solutions, creative outputs or data representation/transformation for particular purposes

Communicating with ICT

• use appropriate ICT tools safely to share and exchange information with appropriate known audiences

• understand that computer mediated communications are directed to an audience for a purpose

Managing and operating ICT

• manage and maintain digital data using common methods

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Histories and Cultures

• OI.2: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities maintain a special connection to and responsibility for Country/Place.

• OI.3: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples have holistic belief systems and are spiritually and intellectually connected to the land, sea, sky and waterways.

• OI.4: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander societies have many Language Groups.

• OI.7: The broader Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander societies encompass a diversity of nations across Australia.

Asia and Australia’s Engagement with Asia

• OI.2: Interrelationships between humans and the diverse environments in Asia shape the region and have global implications.

• OI.5: Collaboration and engagement with the peoples of Asia support effective regional and global citizenship.

• OI.6: Australia is part of the Asia region and our histories from ancient times to the present are linked.