AC9HG8K01 Year 8 Humanities and Social Sciences

AC9HG8K01 – Year 8 Humanities and Social Sciences: Landscapes and landforms

Strand

Knowledge and understanding

Substrand

Landscapes and landforms

This Content Descriptor from Year 8 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

geomorphological processes that produce different landscapes and significant landforms

Elaborations

• explaining the diversity of landscapes, such as wetlands, grasslands, forests, and cold and hot deserts, and landforms at the national scale; for example, mountains – Himalayan Mountains, Nepal; grasslands – the Steppe, central Asia; forests – Daintree, Australia; hot deserts – Gobi, China
• explaining how tectonics, volcanism, folding, faulting, chemical weathering and physical weathering such as erosion, transportation and deposition shape places; for example, folding – MacDonnell Ranges, Northern Territory, Australia; faulting – Great Sumatran Fault (Semangko Fault), Indonesia; volcanism – Krakatoa, Indonesia
• explaining the effects of rock type on a selected landform at the local scale; such as Fraser Island, Queensland or Twelve Apostles, Victoria; for example, sedimentary – igneous and metamorphic; chemical weathering – oxidation and solution; physical weathering – exfoliation and frost wedging
• explaining the effects of erosion, transportation and deposition of water and wind on a selected landform at the local scale; for example, Fraser Island, Queensland, formed by wind, waves and ocean currents; the Twelve Apostles, Victoria, formed by erosion, tides and ocean currents

Achievement Standard This Supports

This Content Descriptor contributes to the following Achievement Standard:

Year 8 ASHASGEOY8

Year 8 Humanities and Social Sciences Achievement Standard

By the end of Year 8, students explain how the interactions of people and environmental processes impact on the characteristics of places. They explain how the characteristics of places are perceived and valued differently by people. They describe the effects of human activity or hazards on environments. They explain the features of a distribution and identify implications. They explain the interconnections between people and places and environments. They explain how these interconnections change places or environments. Students explain responses or strategies to address a geographical phenomenon or challenge, referring to environmental, economic or social factors. Students develop relevant questions about a geographical phenomenon or challenge. They collect, organise and represent relevant and reliable data and information using primary research methods and secondary research materials. They interpret and analyse data and information to explain patterns and trends and infer relationships. They draw reasoned conclusions about the impact of the geographical phenomenon or challenge. They decide on appropriate strategies for action and explain potential impacts. Students use geographical knowledge, methods, concepts, terms and reference findings from sources to create descriptions, explanations and responses.