AC9HG9K06 Year 9 Humanities and Social Sciences

AC9HG9K06 – 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 effects on places of people’s travel, recreational, cultural or leisure choices, and the strategies for managing the impacts on these places

Elaborations

• discussing the causes of the global growth of tourism and its environmental, economic or social impacts on places
• explaining the impacts of people’s cultural and leisure choices on the sustainability of places popular with tourists (for example, visiting Mecca, Vatican City or Varanasi as religious pilgrimages) and predicting how space tourism or the impacts of COVID-19 may affect places
• examining how management plans for national parks, such as Uluru-Kata Tjuta National Park, bring together cultural and scientific knowledge and experience, and examining governance and past experience to manage the effects of people’s cultural and leisure choices

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.