AC9HG9K06 Year 9 Humanities and Social Sciences

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.

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

Elaborations

• 1 discussing the causes of the global growth of tourism and its environmental, economic or social impacts on places
• 2 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
• 3 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

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