AC9HG8K03
Year 8
Humanities and Social Sciences
AC9HG8K03 | Year 8 Geography: Landscapes and landforms
Content Descriptor
Content descriptor the spiritual, aesthetic and cultural value of landscapes and landforms for people, including Country/Place of First Nations Australians
Strand
Knowledge and understanding
Substrand
Landscapes and landforms
This content descriptor sets out learning for Year 8 Geography. Use it to plan lessons and assessment with the Australian Curriculum v9.
Elaborations
- • Elaboration 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
- • Elaboration analysing the role of landforms and landscapes in tourism; for example, Uluru in Australia or the Himalayas in Nepal
- • Elaboration examining how Aboriginal Dreaming stories and Torres Strait Islander Creation stories give meaning to Country/Place
- • Elaboration discussing the meaning of the stories that describe First Nations Australians’ special connection to Country/Place
- • Elaboration discussing the multilayered meanings (material, cultural and spiritual wellbeing) associated with landscapes and significant landforms for First Nations Australians
- • Elaboration explaining the formation of a landform with reference to the special connections First Nations Australians have to Country/Place
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