AC9HG8K03 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 spiritual, aesthetic and cultural value of landscapes and landforms for people, including Country/Place of First Nations Australians

Elaborations

• 1 identifying the ways people value significant landscapes in Japan and China, such as Mt Fuji and the Yellow Mountains respectively, and describing what makes them important
• 2 analysing the role of landforms and landscapes in tourism; for example, Uluru in Australia or the Himalayas in Nepal
• 3 examining how Aboriginal Dreaming stories and Torres Strait Islander Creation stories give meaning to Country/Place
• 4 discussing the meaning of the stories that describe First Nations Australians’ special connection to Country/Place
• 5 discussing the multilayered meanings (material, cultural and spiritual wellbeing) associated with landscapes and significant landforms for First Nations Australians
• 6 explaining the formation of a landform with reference to the special connections First Nations Australians have to Country/Place

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