AC9HS3K05 Year 3 Humanities and Social Sciences

This Content Descriptor from Year 3 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 similarities and differences between places in Australia and neighbouring countries in terms of their natural, managed and constructed features

Elaborations

• 1 identifying and locating examples of the main climatic types in Australia and neighbouring countries (for example, equatorial, tropical arid, semi-arid, temperate) and the features of those climate types and their impact on other natural features
• 2 identifying and describing the similarities and differences between places in Australia and places in neighbouring countries, such as Indonesia and Pacific Island nations, in their natural features; for example, rocks, landforms, bodies of water, climate, soils, natural vegetation and animal life
• 3 investigating differences in the type of housing that people use in different climates and environments
• 4 exploring different types of settlement and classifying them into hierarchical categories, such as isolated dwellings, outstations, villages, towns, regional centres and large cities
• 5 choosing a place in a neighbouring country, such as Indonesia or Pacific Island nations, to compare with a place in Australia in terms of managed and built features to explore the reasons for similarities and differences

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