AC9HG9S02 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.

collect, represent and compare data and information from primary research methods, including fieldwork and secondary research materials, using geospatial technologies and digital tools as appropriate

Elaborations

• 1 identifying primary research methods, including fieldwork, to collect original materials; for example, comparison of aerial photographs or field sketches over time to document the use or alteration of biomes by people, or surveying peers on their use of the internet or other technologies
• 2 collecting relevant secondary research materials online using targeted criteria; for example, "connections between food security and deforestation in Bangladesh”, “the digital divide and its impacts on people and places in North Korea”
• 3 evaluating primary or secondary research materials for relevance (for example, “Does the information reflect current thinking on sustainable food production?”) and reliability (for example, “Who is/are the author/s? Does the author reference other experts or reports in the field of environmental management?”)
• 4 creating a presentation of data and information using geospatial technologies; for example, a 3D diagram illustrating interactions between an oil spill in coral reefs and resultant decline in aquatic food production; a flow diagram showing the daily activities of a female subsistence farmer in Africa; or a diagram of a mangrove ecosystem before and after human interactions
• 5 creating visual representations of multi-variable geographical data using digital tools; for example, a table to compare the daily consumption of meat per person in developed and developing countries; a complex graph to illustrate the relationship between temperature, precipitation and biomes; or a cross-section identifying horizons in a soil profile, and the impacts of mining and fracking on agricultural land
• 6 representing spatial distribution of geographical phenomena by constructing special purpose maps that conform to cartographic conventions, for example creating a map to show the relationship between biomes and world food production

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