AC9HG10K01
Year 10
Humanities and Social Sciences
AC9HG10K01 | Year 10 Geography: Environmental change and management
Content Descriptor
Content descriptor the human-induced changes that challenge the sustainability of places and environments
Strand
Knowledge and understanding
Substrand
Environmental change and management
This content descriptor sets out learning for Year 10 Geography. Use it to plan lessons and assessment with the Australian Curriculum v9.
Elaborations
- • Elaboration identifying tensions between the conflicting perspectives of individuals, communities and governments on the use of sustainable practices
- • Elaboration explaining the nature of human-induced environmental changes (for example, water and atmospheric pollution; loss of biodiversity; degradation of land and aquatic environments) and the challenge they pose for sustainability
- • Elaboration discussing the concept of sustainability in relation to environmental functions and identifying tensions between the conflicting perspectives of communities, businesses and government
Plan a lesson from this content description.
Start freeAchievement standard statements this supports
- By the end of Year 10, students explain how the interactions of people and environmental processes at different scales change the characteristics of places.See it on the standard page →
- They evaluate the extent of interconnections occurring between people and places and environments.See it on the standard page →
- They analyse changes that result from these interconnections and their consequences.See it on the standard page →