AC9HG9S03 Year 9 Humanities and Social Sciences

AC9HG9S03 – Year 9 Humanities and Social Sciences: Interpreting and analysing geographical data and information

Strand

Skills

Substrand

Interpreting and analysing geographical data and information

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

evaluate geographical data and information to make generalisations and predictions, explain patterns and trends and infer relationships

Elaborations

• making generalisations about trends; for example, using questionnaires or interviews to identify people’s perspectives on live food fish trade in Australia or people’s access to the internet in the local area
• explaining a pattern; for example, using the current Global Hunger Index and the updated Food and Agricultural Organization’s Low-Income Food-Deficit Countries (LIFDCs) to identify locations of food scarcity and malnutrition, or comparing maps showing transport networks with survey responses on personal mobility
• explaining relationships between causes and impacts of factors represented in data; for example, the impact of the use of Global Positioning System (GPS) and Geographic Information Systems (GIS) on the way farmers control the dispersion of fertilisers and pesticides to produce higher yields and limit run-off, or the effects of the use of GPS to construct maps on how tourists use different transport systems to visits popular places in Australia

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.