AC9HG8K06 Year 8 Humanities and Social Sciences

AC9HG8K06 – Year 8 Humanities and Social Sciences: Changing nations

Strand

Knowledge and understanding

Substrand

Changing nations

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

causes of urbanisation and its impacts on places and environments, drawing on a study from a country such as the United States of America, and its implications

Elaborations

• explaining the difference between urban growth and urbanisation, and how push-pull forces contribute to internal and international population movements and increase the size of urban areas
• distinguishing between large cities and the rise of megacities at the national scale, including the growth of large capital cities in Australia, Los Angeles as a megacity, or Boston – Washington as an urban corridor in the United States of America
• explaining how changes in economic conditions affect the characteristics of urban places, including population growth in a tourist community in coastal New South Wales such as Byron Bay, population decline in a regional area such as Carnarvon Shire, or old industrial areas evolving into areas of urban renewal, and urban villages in Green Square and Barangaroo, Sydney
• explaining the connections between urbanisation and economic and social opportunities; for example, the location of universities, sporting stadiums or parliaments in capital cities
• explaining how urbanisation can positively or negatively affect the quality of the environment; for example, increases in carbon emissions or increases in water consumption

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.