AC9HG7K07 Year 7 Humanities and Social Sciences

AC9HG7K07 – Year 7 Humanities and Social Sciences: Place and liveability

Strand

Knowledge and understanding

Substrand

Place and liveability

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.

Content Descriptor

the cultural connectedness of people to places and how this influences their identity, sense of belonging and perceptions of a place, in particular the cultural connectedness of First Nations Australians to Country/Place

Elaborations

• identifying different places where people can feel included or excluded, safe or threatened, and explaining how this affects perceptions about liveability of place
• explaining the importance of people being socially connected and the effect on perceptions of liveability
• discussing the cultural connectedness and belonging that First Nations Australians have to a number of places through family, Country/Place, dispossession, relocation and employment

Achievement Standard This Supports

This Content Descriptor contributes to the following Achievement Standard:

Year 7 ASHASGEOY7

Year 7 Humanities and Social Sciences Achievement Standard

By the end of Year 7, students describe how the characteristics of places are perceived and valued differently by people. They describe the importance of environments to people. They describe the features of a distribution. They explain the interconnections between people and places and environments, and describe how these interconnections change places or environments. Students describe a response or strategy to address a geographical challenge or phenomenon. Students develop questions about a geographical phenomenon or challenge.They collect, organise and represent relevant data and information, using primary research methods and secondary research materials. They identify similarities and differences, and describe patterns in data and information. They draw conclusions about the impact of the geographical phenomenon or challenge on people, places and environments. They develop a strategy for action. Students use geographical knowledge, concepts, terms and relevant findings from sources to create descriptions, explanations and responses.