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• VCGGK084

  Similarities and differences between places in terms of their type of settlement, demographic characteristics and the lives of the people who live there

  Elaborations

  • exploring different types of settlement, and classifying them into hierarchical categories, for example, isolated dwellings, outstations, isolated communities, villages, towns, regional centres and large cities
  • investigating the diversity of people who live in their place, using census data on age, birthplace, ancestry, language, religious affiliation, family composition or household composition, comparing them with the people in another place in Australia, and discussing their results
  • discussing the similarities and differences in the types of work and other activities people do in their own place with a different type of place in Australia and a place in another country
  • examining the similarities and differences between their daily lives and those of young people in a place outside Australia and discussing what it would be like to live in these places
  • proposing possible actions that could promote awareness about the similarities and differences between particular places and discussing reasons for raising this awareness

  VCGGK084 | The Humanities | Geography | Levels 3 and 4 | Geographical Knowledge | Diversity and significance of places and environments

• VCGGK124

  The reasons for and effects of international migration to Australia

  Elaborations

  • identifying and explaining the main types and patterns of international migration. For example, permanent migration, temporary labour migration, student migration, forced migration (including refugees) and family reunion
  • investigating where and why international migrants settle in Australia and how this may reinforce urban concentration
  • exploring the changing cultural diversity of the Australian population

  VCGGK124 | The Humanities | Geography | Levels 7 and 8 | Geographical Knowledge | Changing nations

• VCGGK080

  The many Countries/Places of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples throughout Australia, and the custodial responsibility they have for Country/Place, and how this influences views about sustainability

  Elaborations

  • investigating how the Australian continent was (and still is) divided into many Aboriginal Countries and Torres Strait Islander Places, drawing on languages maps, geographical features and other sources such as Traditional Owners
  • compare the characteristics of two Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders Countries/Places. For example, where students live and one elsewhere in Australia
  • exploring how oral traditions of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people were used to describe Country/Place
  • recognising that the distribution of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples before colonisation was concentrated in more productive areas such as in the coastal and riverine areas of Australia and investigating how Aboriginal people were able to trade across the continent
  • investigating how Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples’ ways of living were adapted to the resources of their Country/Place. For example, the alpine country of the Ngarigo People, the rainforests, beaches and dunes of the KuKu Yalanji People, the desert country of the Arrernte People, the savannah country of the Jawoyn People, the riverine plains of the Wiradjuri People, and the local Country/Place

  VCGGK080 | The Humanities | Geography | Levels 3 and 4 | Geographical Knowledge | Diversity and significance of places and environments

• VCGGK113

  Environmental, economic and social measures used to evaluate places for their liveability, comparing two different places

  Elaborations

  • comparing objective measures of liveability such as transportation infrastructure, with subjective measures such as people’s perceptions
  • comparing two liveability surveys and how this affects ranking places
  • evaluating surveys of liveability and the measures they use

  VCGGK113 | The Humanities | Geography | Levels 7 and 8 | Geographical Knowledge | Place and liveability

• VCGGK096

  Environmental and human influences on the location and characteristics of places and the management of spaces within them

  Elaborations

  • comparing how people have responded to climatic conditions in similar and different places and factors that may have influenced this such as culture and technology
  • investigating the influence of landforms on the development of settlements that are involved in food and fibre production. For example, river valleys such as the Murray-Darling, Yellow (Huang He), Yangtze, Amazon, Mekong or Ganges
  • explaining why most Australians live close to the coast rather than in inland Australia
  • examining how the use of the space within their local place is organised through zoning
  • investigating a current local planning issue, such as the redevelopment of a site, preservation of open space or subdivision of farming land, exploring why people have different views on the issue, and developing a class response to it

  VCGGK096 | The Humanities | Geography | Levels 5 and 6 | Geographical Knowledge | Factors that shape places and influence interconnections

• VCGGK011

  Experience weather and seasons

  Elaborations

  • exposed to weather conditions and their sensory characteristics
  • exposed to weather conditions being linked to pictures, words and images
  • experiencing the changing of clothing and activities due to the weather and the season

  VCGGK011 | The Humanities | Geography | Level A | Geographical Knowledge | Places and our connections to them

• VCGGK026

  The major features of a place

  Elaborations

  • using objects, images, photos or Augmentative Alternative Communication to identify a place or activity from a field of two
  • matching feathers to a place using images
  • exploring the features of a place
  • creating a class multimedia text which identifies a place and its key features

  VCGGK026 | The Humanities | Geography | Level B | Geographical Knowledge | Places and our connections to them

• VCGGK135

  The interconnection between food production and land and water degradation; shortage of fresh water; competing land uses; and climate change, for Australia and other areas of the world

  Elaborations

  • exploring environmental challenges to food production from land degradation (soil erosion, salinity, desertification), industrial pollution, water scarcity and climate change
  • identifying the impacts on food production from competing land uses. For example, urban and industrial uses, mining, production of food crops for biofuels, production of food crops for livestock, and recreation (such as golf courses)
  • evaluating whether some ways of increasing food production could threaten sustainability

  VCGGK135 | The Humanities | Geography | Levels 9 and 10 | Geographical Knowledge | Biomes and food security

• VCGGK108

  Nature of water scarcity and the role of humans in creating and overcoming it, including studies drawn from Australia and West Asia and/or North Africa

  Elaborations

  • investigating the causes of water scarcity. For example, an absolute shortage of water (physical), inadequate development of water resources (economics), or the way water is used
  • comparing the effectiveness in reducing water scarcity of methods that increase the supply of water (such as recycling waste water, stormwater harvesting and re-use, desalination and inter-regional transfer of water) with methods that reduce the demand for water (such as pricing, changing the use of water and water restrictions)
  • examining why water is a difficult resource to manage. For example, difficulties in accounting for its economic value, its competing uses and variability of supply over time and space
  • explaining why some land use management practices such as land cleaning and some farming practices have adversely affected water supply

  VCGGK108 | The Humanities | Geography | Levels 7 and 8 | Geographical Knowledge | Water in the world

• VCGGK008

  Experience personal places and their features represented on large-scale maps and models

  Elaborations

  • reacting to the features of a place
  • exposed to the collection and construction of texts which record different places, their features and their purpose
  • exposed to places and their features being represented by images and photos
  • experiencing places being represented in different ways and scales, for example through a series of large-scale bird's eye maps
  • exposed to sensory and visual representations of significant places, for example, thorough the use of daily timetable, or multimodal text of a daily task or activity

  VCGGK008 | The Humanities | Geography | Level A | Geographical Knowledge | Places and our connections to them

• VCGGK070

  Activities in the local place and reasons for their location, and the influence of purpose, distance and accessibility on the frequency with which people visit places

  Elaborations

  • identifying the activities located in their place, such as retailing, medical, educational, police, religious, recreational, farming, manufacturing or office activities, locating them on a pictorial map, and suggesting why they are located where they are
  • investigating the places they and their families visit for shopping recreation, religious or ceremonial activities, or other reasons
  • suggesting what the pattern of visits to places might have been two generations ago and comparing this to their current pattern
  • investigating how people's patterns of visits to places are affected by transport and information and telecommunications technologies

  VCGGK070 | The Humanities | Geography | Foundation to Level 2 | Geographical Knowledge | Places and our connections to them

• VCGGK037

  The connection of their family and peers to other places in Australia and across the world

  Elaborations

  • investigating important local places and events and their connection to other places around the world
  • investigating places their family and peers have visited or are connected to in the world

  VCGGK037 | The Humanities | Geography | Level C | Geographical Knowledge | Places and our connections to them

• VCGGK137

  Land and resource management strategies used by Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander peoples to achieve food security over time

  Elaborations

  • investigating the knowledge and practices of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples that enabled them to use resources and environments sustainably (such as rotational use and harvesting of resources through planned movement, controlled burning, temporary or permanent prohibitions on hunting animals and harvesting plants, and limitations on harvesting) and how some of this knowledge is currently shared among Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples and also with non-Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples
  • investigating the impacts of alterations of biomes on the productivity and availability of staple resources for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, for example, the Murnong (yam daisy) in Victoria

  VCGGK137 | The Humanities | Geography | Levels 9 and 10 | Geographical Knowledge | Biomes and food security

• VCGGK042

  Places regularly used at school and the location, and activities undertaken

  Elaborations

  • exploring and linking activities to location
  • creating data displays to explore locations and activities experienced within a week

  VCGGK042 | The Humanities | Geography | Level C | Geographical Knowledge | Places and our connections to them

• VCGGK117

  Geomorphic processes that produce landforms, including a case study of at least one landform

  Elaborations

  • describing the influence of folding, faulting or volcanism on a chosen landform
  • contrasting the effects of geomorphic processes that lower the land surface (weathering and erosion) and those that raise the land surface (transportation and deposition)

  VCGGK117 | The Humanities | Geography | Levels 7 and 8 | Geographical Knowledge | Landforms and landscapes

• VCGGK051

  The connection of their school and local community to other places in Australia and across the world

  Elaborations

  • investigating how local celebrations and events link to places in the world
  • exploring the location of places people have visited

  VCGGK051 | The Humanities | Geography | Level D | Geographical Knowledge | Places and our connections to them

• VCGGK143

  Effects of people’s travel, recreational, cultural or leisure choices on places, and the implications for the future of these places

  Elaborations

  • investigating the global growth of tourism and its likely effects on the future of places
  • discussing the effects of people's cultural and leisure choices on towns and cities or heritage areas. For example, predicting how changing choices may affect these and other places in the future

  VCGGK143 | The Humanities | Geography | Levels 9 and 10 | Geographical Knowledge | Geographies of interconnection

• VCGGK054

  The major features of a place and their location

  Elaborations

  • participating in structured discussions about a place, exploring the major features and locations of familiar places
  • comparing characteristics of familiar places
  • answering questions about a place using a single word or short simple sentence

  VCGGK054 | The Humanities | Geography | Level D | Geographical Knowledge | Places and our connections to them

• VCGGK038

  Explore names and places of local spaces and their Dreaming stories

  Elaborations

  • exploring the features associated with dreaming stories
  • labelling and linking places and spaces with their dreaming stories
  • linking people, places and events to the local aboriginal community

  VCGGK038 | The Humanities | Geography | Level C | Geographical Knowledge | Places and our connections to them

• VCGGK027

  Experience specific activities in a place

  Elaborations

  • assisting to create personal and class multimodal texts in structured situation which identify places they like and what they like to do in them; a place and what it is used for including ‘special’ event/s
  • participating in activities related to the care and maintenance of a place, for example planting and watering plants; weeding, picking up rubbish; cleaning, maintaining or putting away equipment
  • matching an activity to the place it occurs, such as matching a photo of an activity to its location or object to its usual location

  VCGGK027 | The Humanities | Geography | Level B | Geographical Knowledge | Places and our connections to them