AC9HG8K02 Year 8 Humanities and Social Sciences

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.

the location and distribution of Australia’s distinctive landscapes and significant landforms

Elaborations

• 1 representing the distribution of Australian distinctive landscapes, such as the deserts in Central Australia, and significant landforms, such as Uluru in Central Australia
• 2 locating iconic landscapes and landforms in Australia on a map and describing what makes them iconic
• 3 comparing the distribution of Australia’s distinctive landscapes with distinctive landscapes in another country; for example, grasslands in Arnhem Land in northern Australia compared to grasslands in Mongolia; tropical rainforests in northern Australia compared to forests in Laos and Cambodia
• 4 explaining the significance of a landform important to First Nations Australians; for example, the names, meanings and significance of the Three Sisters in the Blue Mountains, New South Wales; Budj Bim cultural landscape within Gunditjmara Country; Uluru-Kata Tjuta National Park in Northern Territory

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