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AC9HG8K04: Year 8 Humanities and Social Sciences Content Descriptor – Landscapes and landforms
AC9HG8K04 Year 8 Humanities and Social Sciences

AC9HG8K04 – 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

the interconnections between human activity and geomorphological processes, and ways of managing distinctive landscapes

Elaborations

  • • identifying the interconnections and effects of erosion and sedimentation produced by human activities on the quality of the environment; for example, the effects of overuse of tourist tracks in bushland or the effects of land-clearing for the production of palm oil in Indonesia and Malaysia
  • • explaining the interconnections and effects of mining, quarrying and urban development on the quality of the environment; for example, the interconnections of the quality of the environment and uranium mining in Kakadu, urban development in Singapore or the extension of land area in Tokyo Bay
  • • explaining the effects of river regulation, including dams, locks, channel straightening and drains, on the quality of riverine and wetland environments; for example, the Three Gorges Dam on the Yangtze River in China, or dams and weirs on the Murray–Darling River system
  • • identifying the contribution of the knowledges of First Nations Australians to the use and management of distinctive landscapes; for example, Indigenous Peoples’ Knowledge (IPK) incorporated into modern management of diverse landscapes and landforms such as Kakadu National Park, Uluru, the Great Barrier Reef and the Snowy Mountains

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.