AC9HG10S01 Year 10 Humanities and Social Sciences

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.

develop a range of questions for a geographical inquiry related to a phenomenon or challenge

Elaborations

• 1 developing a range of relevant questions to investigate why a geographical phenomenon has changed or a challenge may arise; for example, “What is human wellbeing?”, “How has human wellbeing changed over time?”, “How and why should inequality in human wellbeing be reduced?”
• 2 developing and modifying questions to sharpen the focus of an investigation using concepts or scale of study; for example, “How are variations in the spatial distribution of human wellbeing measured at the global scale?”, “Why does human wellbeing vary between and within countries?” (national scale), “How would you measure human wellbeing in the local area?” (local scale)
• 3 planning an investigation of a phenomenon or challenge being studied at a range of scales, using digital tools; for example, investigating the causes of human-induced climate change at the global scale and its impacts on Australia, Bangladesh and/or a Pacific Island country at the national scale

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