AC9HG7K05
Year 7
Humanities and Social Sciences
AC9HG7K05 | Year 7 Geography: Place and liveability
Content Descriptor
Content descriptor factors that influence the decisions people make about where to live, including perceptions of the liveability of places and the influence of environmental quality
Strand
Knowledge and understanding
Substrand
Place and liveability
This content descriptor sets out learning for Year 7 Geography. Use it to plan lessons and assessment with the Australian Curriculum v9.
Elaborations
- • Elaboration explaining how the economic, cultural, spiritual and aesthetic value of places influence choices about where to live; for example, economic – working for industries located in remote and very remote places; culture – connections for cultural groups; spiritual – meanings attributed to places; aesthetic – “bright lights” attraction or tree change
- • Elaboration discussing the concept of liveability and the ways it is measured, and comparing objective measures, such as transportation infrastructure with subjective measures, such as people’s perceptions
- • Elaboration comparing students’ access to and use of places and spaces in their local area, and evaluating how this affects perceptions of liveability
- • Elaboration examining the influence of environmental quality on decisions people make about where to live; for example, clean land, air and water, views, recreation facilities and favourable climate
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