AC9HS5K05 Year 5 Humanities and Social Sciences

Content descriptor the management of Australian environments, including managing severe weather events such as bushfires, floods, droughts or cyclones, and their consequences

Elaborations

• • Elaboration 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
• • Elaboration 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