AC9HS5K05 Year 5 Humanities and Social Sciences

This Content Descriptor from Year 5 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 management of Australian environments, including managing severe weather events such as bushfires, floods, droughts or cyclones, and their consequences

Elaborations

• 1 exploring how environments are used and managed, such as the practices and laws that aim to manage human impact, the use of zoning to manage local environments, creation of wildlife corridors and national parks
• 2 examining how changes due to environmental practices create issues, such as water shortages and increased floods and bushfires, the impact of issues on places and communities, and how people can mitigate the impacts, for example through building codes, zoning, firebreaks and controlled burns, and efficient irrigation

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