AC9HG8K06 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.

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

• 1 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
• 2 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
• 3 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
• 4 explaining the connections between urbanisation and economic and social opportunities; for example, the location of universities, sporting stadiums or parliaments in capital cities
• 5 explaining how urbanisation can positively or negatively affect the quality of the environment; for example, increases in carbon emissions or increases in water consumption

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