AC9HG8S01 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.

develop questions for a geographical inquiry related to a phenomenon or challenge

Elaborations

• 1 developing questions to investigate why a geographical phenomenon has changed or why a challenge may arise; for example, “How does urban development affect the sustainability of wetlands?”, “Why is biodiversity declining in urban places?”
• 2 planning an investigation of a geographical phenomenon or challenge being studied, at a range of scales using digital planning tools; for example, how geomorphological processes produce significant landforms at the local scale, or the causes and consequences of urbanisation at the national scale

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