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AC9HG10K05: Year 10 Humanities and Social Sciences Content Descriptor – Geographies of human wellbeing
AC9HG10K05 Year 10 Humanities and Social Sciences

AC9HG10K05 – Year 10 Humanities and Social Sciences: Geographies of human wellbeing

Strand
Knowledge and understanding
Substrand
Geographies of human wellbeing

This Content Descriptor from Year 10 Humanities and Social Sciences provides the specific knowledge and skills students should learn. Use it to plan lessons, create learning sequences, and design assessments that align with the Australian Curriculum v9.

Content Descriptor

the methods used to measure spatial variations in human wellbeing and development, and how these can be applied to determine differences between places at the global scale

Elaborations

  • • identifying the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals 2015–2030 relevant to human wellbeing
  • • comparing different measurements of human wellbeing (for example, comparing rankings of selected indicators such as Gross Domestic Product [GDP], Human Development Index [HDI] and Physical Quality of Life Index [PQLI] for Australia, India and a country in the Pacific) and explaining trends in the different measurements
  • • interpreting and explaining trends in human wellbeing in a developed country and a developing country over time; for example, Australia compared with a country in Asia or the Pacific

Achievement Standard This Supports

This Content Descriptor contributes to the following Achievement Standard:

Year 10 ASHASGEOY10
Year 10 Humanities and Social Sciences Achievement Standard
By the end of Year 10, students explain how the interactions of people and environmental processes at different scales change the characteristics of places. They explain the effects of human activity on environments, and the effect of environments on human activity, over time. They evaluate the implications of a distribution. They evaluate the extent of interconnections occurring between people and places and environments. They analyse changes that result from these interconnections and their consequences. Students evaluate strategies to address a geographical phenomenon or challenge using environmental, social and economic criteria. Students develop a range of relevant 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, using appropriate formats. They interpret and analyse data and information to make generalisations and predictions, explain significant patterns and trends, and infer relationships. They draw evidence-based conclusions, based on relevant data and information, about the impact of the geographical phenomenon or challenge. They develop and evaluate strategies using criteria, recommend a strategy and explain the predicted impacts. Students use geographical knowledge, concepts, terms and digital tools as appropriate to develop descriptions, explanations and responses that synthesise research findings.