AC9HG7K05 Year 7 Humanities and Social Sciences

This Content Descriptor from Year 7 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.

factors that influence the decisions people make about where to live, including perceptions of the liveability of places and the influence of environmental quality

Elaborations

• 1 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
• 2 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
• 3 comparing students’ access to and use of places and spaces in their local area, and evaluating how this affects perceptions of liveability
• 4 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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