AC9HG9K05 Year 9 Humanities and Social Sciences

AC9HG9K05 – Year 9 Humanities and Social Sciences: Geographies of interconnections

Strand

Knowledge and understanding

Substrand

Geographies of interconnections

This Content Descriptor from Year 9 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 ways changing transportation and technologies are used to connect people to services, information and people in other places

Elaborations

• discussing how access to transportation affects the ways people perceive, use and are connected to specific services or opportunities in a place; for example, regional flights to travel to capital cities and to international destinations
• identifying and describing how transport and information networks function to connect people to goods and services (for example, from cotton crop to t-shirts or from farm to table), including how supply-chain logistics influence these connections
• discussing how communications infrastructure and networks support people to collaborate; for example, local people working for social sustainability and inclusion such as the Masai in Kenya, Berber in North Africa, San or Kalahari Bushmen in southern Africa, Uyghurs in China, Ainu in Japan, Inuit in Greenland and Yanomami in the Amazon Basin
• interpreting differences in people’s access to the internet between and within countries, such as in rural areas across Australia and across the world, including a country of Asia, and explaining how technologies are used to connect people to information, services and other people
• examining how technologies have made it possible for places to provide a range of global business services, such as businesses operating call centres in India and the Philippines

Achievement Standard This Supports

This Content Descriptor contributes to the following Achievement Standard:

Year 9 ASHASGEOY9

Year 9 Humanities and Social Sciences Achievement Standard

By the end of Year 9, students explain how peoples’ activities or environmental processes change the characteristics of places. They explain the effects of human activity on environments, and the effects of environments on human activity. They explain the features of biomes’ distribution and identify implications for environments. They analyse the interconnections between people and places and environments. They identify and explain how these interconnections influence people, and change places and environments. Students analyse strategies to address a geographical phenomenon or challenge using environmental, social or economic criteria. Students develop a range of questions about a geographical phenomenon or challenge. They collect, represent and compare relevant and reliable geographical data and information by using a range of primary research methods and secondary research materials in a range of formats. They interpret and analyse data and information to explain patterns and trends and infer relationships. They draw evidence-based conclusions about the impact of the geographical phenomenon or challenge. They develop and evaluate strategies, predict impacts and make a recommendation. Students use geographical knowledge, concepts, terms and digital tools as appropriate to develop descriptions, explanations and responses that acknowledge research findings.