AC9HS4K05 Year 4 Humanities and Social Sciences

AC9HS4K05 – Year 4 Humanities and Social Sciences: Geography

Strand

Knowledge and understanding

Substrand

Geography

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.

Content Descriptor

the importance of environments, including natural vegetation and water sources, to people and animals in Australia and on another continent

Elaborations

• 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
• 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
• explaining how people’s connections with their environment can also be aesthetic, emotional and spiritual
• exploring strategies to protect particular environments that provide habitats for animals; for example, planting bird-attracting vegetation
• identifying the importance of water to the environment and to sustaining the lives of people and animals

Achievement Standard This Supports

This Content Descriptor contributes to the following Achievement Standard:

Year 4 ASHASHASY4

Year 4 Humanities and Social Sciences Achievement Standard

By the end of Year 4, students describe the diversity of experiences of people in Australia prior to and following 1788. They describe the events and causes of the establishment of the first British colony in Australia. They describe the effects of colonisation on people and environments. Students describe the importance of environments, and sustainable allocation and management of resources. They describe the importance and role of local government, community members and laws, and the cultural and social factors that shape identity.Students develop questions and locate, collect and record information and data from a range of sources and formats. They interpret and analyse information and data to identify perspectives, and draw conclusions. Students propose considered actions or responses. Students use ideas from sources and relevant subject-specific terms to present descriptions and explanations.