AC9HS5K04 Year 5 Humanities and Social Sciences

Content descriptor the influence of people, including First Nations Australians and people in other countries, on the characteristics of a place

Elaborations

• • Elaboration identifying how First Nations Australian communities altered the environment and sustained ways of living through their methods of land and resource management; for example, firestick farming
• • Elaboration exploring the extent of change in the local environment over time (for example, through vegetation clearance, fencing, urban development, drainage, irrigation, erosion, farming, the introduction of grazing livestock such as sheep and cattle, forest plantations or mining), and evaluating the effects of change on economic development and environmental sustainability
• • Elaboration exploring examples of positive influences people have on the characteristics of places; for example, reforestation, land-care groups, rehabilitating former mining, industrial or waste disposal sites
• • Elaboration identifying positive and negative influences of people on places in other countries, including countries in Asia, Europe and North America