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• VCGGC127

  Predict changes in the characteristics of places over time and identify the possible implications of change for the future

  Elaborations

  • researching the potential of agricultural production in northern Australia
  • 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
  • evaluating the effects of international demand for food products on biodiversity throughout the world, in the places of their production
  • identifying trends in human wellbeing in countries over time

  VCGGC127 | The Humanities | Geography | Levels 9 and 10 | Geographical Concepts and Skills | Place, space and interconnection

• VCGGC100

  Identify, analyse and explain spatial distributions and patterns and identify and explain their implications

  Elaborations

  • interpreting the spatial distribution of rainfall in Australia and comparing it with that of other continents
  • comparing accessibility to and availability of a range of services and facilities between different types of settlements (urban, rural and remote) in Australia and other countries. For example, shops, access to clean water, sanitation, education and health services
  • investigating the natural causes and spatial distribution of a geomorphological hazard. For example, volcanic eruptions, earthquakes, tsunamis, landslides and avalanches
  • exploring the arguments for and against a more balanced distribution of the urban population

  VCGGC100 | The Humanities | Geography | Levels 7 and 8 | Geographical Concepts and Skills | Place, space and interconnection

• VCGGC047

  Model or draw key features of a familiar place

  Elaborations

  • collecting images, objects to represent a place or space
  • identifying a place by its significant feature
  • using three dimensional objects to construct a map of a familiar place and it’s spaces
  • creating a two dimensional representation of a familiar place

  VCGGC047 | The Humanities | Geography | Level D | Geographical Concepts and Skills | Data and information

• VCGGC031

  Link places to their related activities and special events

  Elaborations

  • exploring some of the features of a place in their local community and its spaces in structured learning experiences
  • experiencing and identifying the functions of a significant community facility
  • identifying significant people from a significant place
  • labelling significant places and identifying various spaces within a place
  • identifying some conservation activities by communicating or showing how they look after the environment in a place
  • matching an appropriate event to a place or space

  VCGGC031 | The Humanities | Geography | Level C | Geographical Concepts and Skills | Place, space and interconnection

• VCGGC029

  Identify a familiar place and present findings using locational vocabulary, photos and visuals

  Elaborations

  • identifying some significant places or objects passed on the journey to a place, for example parks, trees, shops, truck
  • identifying the type of transport they use to get to significant places, for example walk, bus, car, train
  • locating familiar rooms and places at school and navigating confidently within familiar places
  • assisting in the construction of multimedia texts which represent the location of the places and features they pass, for example on their way from school to the place; they pass on the way to school and/ or they pass on their way from place to place within the school

  VCGGC029 | The Humanities | Geography | Level C | Geographical Concepts and Skills | Place, space and interconnection

• VCGGC044

  Describe the location of a familiar place and the related activities

  Elaborations

  • identifying some key places and features of their journey to a place
  • identifying and participating in basic processes that enable them to use public transport to journey to significant places with supervision
  • using their own experience to identify places they like and their purpose

  VCGGC044 | The Humanities | Geography | Level D | Geographical Concepts and Skills | Place, space and interconnection

• VCGGC030

  Link activities to a location

  Elaborations

  • investigating places they visit and what they do there
  • identifying their favourite place and why they like it such as specific features or activities
  • drawing on their own experience to use a place appropriately

  VCGGC030 | The Humanities | Geography | Level C | Geographical Concepts and Skills | Place, space and interconnection

• VCGGC058

  Describe and explain where places and activities are located

  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
  • describing the location of continents and oceans relative to Australia using terms such as north, south, near, far

  VCGGC058 | The Humanities | Geography | Foundation to Level 2 | Geographical Concepts and Skills | Place, space and interconnection

• VCGGC062

  Interpret data and information to draw conclusions and describe the direction and location of places, using terms such as north, south, opposite, near, far

  Elaborations

  • using information from a range of sources, such as fieldwork observations and representation of features and places in photographs, satellite images and rock art, to answer ‘what’, ‘how’ and ‘why’ questions
  • sorting transport and telecommunications technologies by time to draw conclusions about why patterns of visits to places have changed
  • investigating and reporting findings to show the influence of distance and accessibility on the use of places now and over at least one generation
  • describing the direction and location (near and far, above and below, beside and opposite) of familiar places
  • writing or talking about their connection to places using appropriate directional and locational terms, including north and south

  VCGGC062 | The Humanities | Geography | Foundation to Level 2 | Geographical Concepts and Skills | Data and information

• VCGGC128

  Identify, analyse and explain significant spatial distributions and patterns and identify and evaluate their implications, over time and at different scales

  Elaborations

  • identifying and describing the major aquatic and terrestrial biomes of Australia and the world, and their spatial distribution
  • examining how information and communication technologies have made it possible for places in India and the Philippines, for example, to provide a range of global business services
  • proposing geographical management strategies for the environmental change being investigated, for example, establishing reserves and corridors to preserve biodiversity (a spatial strategy), ecosystem-based management (an environmental strategy), urban planning to reduce energy consumption (a spatial strategy), and addressing the underlying as well as immediate causes of environmental change (holistic thinking)
  • examining spatial data on human wellbeing in India to identify the regions with different levels of wellbeing, identifying patterns and debating explanations of the differences

  VCGGC128 | The Humanities | Geography | Levels 9 and 10 | Geographical Concepts and Skills | Place, space and interconnection

• VCGGC004

  Experience geographical information by using their senses

  Elaborations

  • exposed to environmental changes within a place
  • exposed to the collection and construction of texts which record different places, their features and their purpose
  • exposed to places being represented by images and photos
  • experiencing multimedia texts which represent the location of the places and/ or the location and features they pass on their way from school to the place

  VCGGC004 | The Humanities | Geography | Level A | Geographical Concepts and Skills | Data and information

• VCGGC019

  Use images to identify a familiar place

  Elaborations

  • using images to indicate an activity, object or feature of a significant place
  • identifying images of a place
  • selecting images to indicate a place, object or feature they like in a place

  VCGGC019 | The Humanities | Geography | Level B | Geographical Concepts and Skills | Data and information

• VCGGC102

  Collect and record relevant geographical data and information from useful primary and secondary sources, using ethical protocols

  Elaborations

  • gathering from a range of primary and digital sources, for example, from GIS layers, observation, annotated field sketches, surveys and interviews, or photographs, relevant data about the impacts of and responses to a hydrological hazard, or the factors influencing decisions people make about where to live
  • collecting geographical information from secondary sources, such as digital sources, thematic maps, weather maps, climate graphs, compound column graphs and population pyramids, reports, census data and the media
  • applying ethical research methods, including the use of protocols for consultation with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities
  • considering the usefulness of primary and secondary data by finding out when it was collected and for what purpose, and comparing this to the purpose of research
  • gathering relevant data about the ways to protect significant landscapes from a range of primary and digital sources, such as from observation, annotated field sketches, surveys and interviews, or photographs

  VCGGC102 | The Humanities | Geography | Levels 7 and 8 | Geographical Concepts and Skills | Data and information

• VCGGC089

  Represent the location of places and other types of geographical data and information in different forms including diagrams, field sketches and large-scale and small-scale maps that conform to cartographic conventions of border, scale, legend, title, north point and source; using digital and spatial...

  Elaborations

  • summarising the points of view on an issue, for example in a planning or environmental dispute
  • developing a diagram to show the similarities and differences in official languages and religions across a number of countries
  • creating maps such as flow and choropleth maps, or plans for specific purposes. For example, a flow map to show the connections Australia has with other countries, or a bushfire management plan mapping geographical data using spatial technologies, the location of recent bushfires in Australia, or information they have collected through fieldwork
  • annotating a map to show places and their features in Australia and in selected countries of North America and Europe
  • creating small-scale maps to show connections between places

  VCGGC089 | The Humanities | Geography | Levels 5 and 6 | Geographical Concepts and Skills | Data and information

• VCGGC071

  Identify and describe the characteristics of places in different locations at a range of scales

  Elaborations

  • identifying the major natural features of Australia, such as rivers, deserts, rainforests, the Great Dividing Range and the Great Barrier Reef and describing them with annotations on a map
  • researching the main types of natural vegetation and native animals in a climate zone in Australia and comparing them with those found in a similar climate in Africa or South America
  • identifying and locating examples of the main climatic types in Australia and the world, for example, equatorial, tropical, arid, semi-arid, temperate and Mediterranean
  • 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

  VCGGC071 | The Humanities | Geography | Levels 3 and 4 | Geographical Concepts and Skills | Place, space and interconnection

• VCGGC057

  Identify and describe the features of places at a local scale and how they change, recognising that people describe the features of places differently

  Elaborations

  • recounting Aboriginal Dreaming stories and/or Legends of the Torres Strait that identify the natural features of a place
  • using observations and/or photographs to identify changes in natural, managed and constructed features in their place. For example, recent erosion, revegetated areas, planted crops or new buildings

  VCGGC057 | The Humanities | Geography | Foundation to Level 2 | Geographical Concepts and Skills | Place, space and interconnection

• VCGGC085

  Describe and explain the diverse characteristics of places in different locations from local to global scales

  Elaborations

  • researching the population size and density of a selection of countries around the world
  • exploring the diversity of environments and types of settlement, in the Asia region, or in part of the region, or in a country in either North-East, South-East or South Asia and discussing any patterns
  • researching the proportions of the Australian population and of the population from their local area who were born in each world cultural region, using data from the Australian Bureau of Statistics and then comparing aspects of selected cultures
  • investigating the similarities and differences in languages, religions and spiritual traditions between Australia and selected countries of the Asia region and other parts of the world
  • examining how the use of space within an area may be influenced by designation of land, for example, national parks, reserves, significant sites

  VCGGC085 | The Humanities | Geography | Levels 5 and 6 | Geographical Concepts and Skills | Place, space and interconnection

• VCGGK025

  Observe and identify major weather type

  Elaborations

  • experiencing a sunny day and using their senses to identify this and respond to temperature
  • watching and listening to rainfall, and communicating their observations
  • using images to identify characteristics of a storm

  VCGGK025 | The Humanities | Geography | Level B | Geographical Knowledge | Places and our connections to them

• VCGGK092

  Location of the major countries of the Asian region in relation to Australia and the geographical diversity within the region

  Elaborations

  • identifying the geographical divisions of Asia, including North-East, South-East, South Asia and West Asia (the Middle East)
  • exploring the diversity of environments and types of settlement, in the Asia region, or in part of the region, or in a country in either North-East, South-East or South Asia and discussing any patterns
  • describing the location of places in countries of the Asia region in absolute terms using latitude and longitude

  VCGGK092 | The Humanities | Geography | Levels 5 and 6 | Geographical Knowledge | Factors that shape places and influence interconnections

• VCGGK028

  Places used regularly at school and activities I do there

  Elaborations

  • exploring objects and activities related to a place
  • matching objects to the place they can be found
  • indicating what they like or dislike about a place
  • identifying familiar places within the school

  VCGGK028 | The Humanities | Geography | Level B | Geographical Knowledge | Places and our connections to them