AC9HS4K05 Year 4 Humanities and Social Sciences

This Content Descriptor from Year 4 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 importance of environments, including natural vegetation and water sources, to people and animals in Australia and on another continent

Elaborations

• 1 identifying the main types of vegetation, including forest, savannah, grassland, woodland and desert, and exploring natural vegetation in Australia and another continent such as Africa or South America
• 2 exploring how vegetation has an important role in sustaining the environment by producing oxygen, protecting food-producing land from erosion, retaining rainfall, providing habitat for animals, sheltering crops and livestock, providing shade for people, cooling urban places, producing medicines, wood and fibre, and making places appear more attractive
• 3 explaining how people’s connections with their environment can also be aesthetic, emotional and spiritual
• 4 exploring strategies to protect particular environments that provide habitats for animals; for example, planting bird-attracting vegetation
• 5 identifying the importance of water to the environment and to sustaining the lives of people and animals

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