Year 9 Geography Achievement Standard – Australian Curriculum v9
This Achievement Standard describes what students are expected to know and do in Year 9 Humanities and Social Sciences by the end of the year. Teachers can use it to guide assessment design, collect evidence of learning, and ensure planning stays aligned with the Australian Curriculum v9.
What Students Should Know
By the end of Year 9, students explain how peoples’ activities or environmental processes change the characteristics of places. They explain the effects of human activity on environments, and the effects of environments on human activity. They explain the features of biomes’ distribution and identify implications for environments. They analyse the interconnections between people and places and environments. They identify and explain how these interconnections influence people, and change places and environments. Students analyse strategies to address a geographical phenomenon or challenge using environmental, social or economic criteria.
Students develop a range of questions about a geographical phenomenon or challenge. They collect, represent and compare relevant and reliable geographical data and information by using a range of primary research methods and secondary research materials in a range of formats. They interpret and analyse data and information to explain patterns and trends and infer relationships. They draw evidence-based conclusions about the impact of the geographical phenomenon or challenge. They develop and evaluate strategies, predict impacts and make a recommendation. Students use geographical knowledge, concepts, terms and digital tools as appropriate to develop descriptions, explanations and responses that acknowledge research findings.
Content Descriptors by Strand
This standard is supported by 14 Content Descriptors:
Knowledge and understanding
Biomes and food security
AC9HG9K01 the distribution and characteristics of biomes as regions with distinctive climates, soils, vegetation and productivity AC9HG9K02 the effects on environments of human alteration of biomes to produce food, industrial materials and fibres AC9HG9K03 the environmental, economic and technological factors that impact agricultural productivity, in Australia and a country in Asia AC9HG9K04 challenges to sustainable food production and food security in Australia and appropriate management strategiesGeographies of interconnections
AC9HG9K05 the ways changing transportation and technologies are used to connect people to services, information and people in other places AC9HG9K06 the effects on places of people’s travel, recreational, cultural or leisure choices, and the strategies for managing the impacts on these places AC9HG9K07 the ways that places and people are interconnected with other places through trade in goods and services, at all scales AC9HG9K08 the impacts of the production and consumption of goods on places throughout the world, and strategies to manage sustainability in these placesSkills
Questioning and researching using geographical methods
AC9HG9S01 develop a range of questions for a geographical inquiry related to a phenomenon or challenge AC9HG9S02 collect, represent and compare data and information from primary research methods, including fieldwork and secondary research materials, using geospatial technologies and digital tools as appropriateInterpreting and analysing geographical data and information
AC9HG9S03 evaluate geographical data and information to make generalisations and predictions, explain patterns and trends and infer relationshipsConcluding and decision-making
AC9HG9S04 evaluate data and information to justify conclusions AC9HG9S05 develop and evaluate strategies using environmental, economic or social criteria; recommend a strategy and explain the predicted impactsCommunicating
AC9HG9S06 create descriptions, explanations and responses, using geographical knowledge and geographical tools as appropriate, and concepts and terms that incorporate and acknowledge research findingsAt a Glance
| Strand | Substrand | CDs | Elaborations |
|---|---|---|---|
| Knowledge and understanding | Biomes and food security | 4 | 16 |
| Knowledge and understanding | Geographies of interconnections | 4 | 15 |
| Skills | Questioning and researching using geographical methods | 2 | 9 |
| Skills | Interpreting and analysing geographical data and information | 1 | 3 |
| Skills | Concluding and decision-making | 2 | 7 |
| Skills | Communicating | 1 | 3 |
| Total | 14 | 53 | |