AC9HS2K03 Year 2 Humanities and Social Sciences

This Content Descriptor from Year 2 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.

how places can be spatially represented in geographical divisions from local to regional to state/territory, and how people and places are interconnected across those scales

Elaborations

• 1 identifying where they live in Australia, including in relation to their nearest capital city, the region and state/territory on a map and a globe
• 2 investigating the places locally and at a broader scale that they and their families visit for shopping, health, recreation, religious or ceremonial activities, or other reasons
• 3 identifying links they and other people in their community have with people and places at the regional and/or state/territory scale; for example, where produce in their supermarket comes from or produce from their farms goes to, relatives they visit, places they go for holidays
• 4 describing how communication and transport technologies connect their place to other places at the regional and/or state/territory level; for example, online communication, phone, road, rail, planes, ferries

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