AC9HG9S01 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.

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

Elaborations

• 1 developing a range of questions to investigate why a geographical phenomenon has changed or why a challenge may arise; for example, “Why is food security important?”, “What are sources of food in Australia?”, “How are people, places and environments connected?”
• 2 developing and modifying questions to sharpen the focus of an investigation using concepts or scale of study; for example, “Why is the security and sustainability of food production important at the national scale?”, “How can bush food become a sustainable nutritional source of food in Australia?”, “How can connections between people, environments and places affect the sustainability of places at the global scale?”
• 3 planning an investigation of a geographical phenomenon or challenge being studied at a range of scales, using digital tools; for example, the diverse types of biomes modified by humans for food and non-food products at a national and global scale, or the different types of connections between people and places at local, national and global scales

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