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• VCGGK039

  Connection of weather to seasons

  Elaborations

  • exploring how changes in the weather effected a place, activity or event
  • using structured activities to observe and develop an understanding of how changes in the weather can affect a desired activity
  • showing an understanding of how changes in the weather can affect their daily activities by matching clothing activity and weather
  • connecting weather and season to clothing, activity and events

  VCGGK039 | The Humanities | Geography | Level C | Geographical Knowledge | Places and our connections to them

• 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

• The Humanities | Geography: Learning in Geography

  Concepts

  The Geography curriculum identifies the concepts of place, space, environment, interconnection, sustainability, scale and change, as integral to the development of geographical understanding. These are high-level ideas or ways of thinking that can be applied across the subject to identify...

  Overview material | Geography

• VCGGC101

  Identify, analyse and explain interconnections within places and between places and identify and explain changes resulting from these interconnections

  Elaborations

  • describing how water is an available resource when it is groundwater, soil moisture (green water), and surface water in dams, rivers and lakes (blue water), and a potential resource when it exists as salt water, ice, water vapour or waste water, and using the concept of the water cycle to show the connections between the different forms
  • explaining how the movement of water through the environment connects places. For example, the melting of snow in spring feeding rivers and dams downstream
  • comparing student access to and use of places and spaces in their local area and evaluating how this affects perceptions of liveability
  • analysing the role of landforms and landscapes in tourism. For example, Uluru in Australia or the Grand Canyon in the USA
  • examining how urbanisation can affect environmental quality and analysing the effects of erosion and sedimentation produced by human activities on landscape quality

  VCGGC101 | The Humanities | Geography | Levels 7 and 8 | Geographical Concepts and Skills | Place, space and interconnection

• VCGGK064

  Definition of places as parts of the Earth’s surface that have been given meaning by people, and how places can be defined at a variety of scales

  Elaborations

  • examining the names of features and places in the local area, and the meaning of these names and why they were chosen
  • investigating the names and meanings given to local features and places by the local Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples
  • describing the hierarchy of places: from the personal scale of their home, the local scale of their suburb or town, the regional scale of their state, to the national scale of their country

  VCGGK064 | The Humanities | Geography | Foundation to Level 2 | Geographical Knowledge | Places and our connections to them

• VCGGK053

  Ways weather and seasons are described

  Elaborations

  • investigating the seasons and their associated weather, clothes and events
  • explore how local cultural groups view the seasons and related events

  VCGGK053 | The Humanities | Geography | Level D | Geographical Knowledge | Places and our connections to them

• 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

• VCGGC099

  Explain processes that influence the characteristics of places

  Elaborations

  • explaining the physical causes and the temporal and spatial patterns of an atmospheric or hydrological hazard through a study of either droughts, storms, tropical cyclones or floods
  • exploring the geomorphology of the land and how this affects the liveability of a place
  • contrasting the effects of geomorphic processes that lower the land surface (weathering and erosion) and those that raise the land surface (transportation and deposition)
  • discussing urbanisation as a shift in where, how and why people live where they do

  VCGGC099 | The Humanities | Geography | Levels 7 and 8 | Geographical Concepts and Skills | Place, space and interconnection

• Geography: Levels 7 and 8 description

  In Levels 7 and 8, students examine the processes that influence the characteristics of places. They consider spatial distributions and patterns and their implications and consider interconnections between and within places and changes resulting from these. This further develops their understanding...

  Level description | The Humanities | Geography

• Geography: Foundation to Level 2 description

  From Foundation to Level 2, the curriculum develops the concept of place through a study of what places are like over time and how they are defined. The emphasis in F-2 is on the places in which students live, but they also start to investigate other places of similar size that are familiar to...

  Level description | The Humanities | Geography

• 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

• 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

• VCGGK144

  Different types and distribution of environmental changes and the forms it takes in different places

  Elaborations

  • creating a map to show measures of environmental change, using a spatial technologies application
  • examining spatial data and information on desertification affecting drylands
  • describing and analysing a global map showing access to safe water and investigating differences in water pollution in different places

  VCGGK144 | The Humanities | Geography | Levels 9 and 10 | Geographical Knowledge | Environmental change and management

• VCGGK067

  Weather and seasons and the ways in which different cultural groups, including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, describe them

  Elaborations

  • describing the daily and seasonal weather of their place by its rainfall, temperature, sunshine and wind, and comparing it with the weather of other places that they know or are aware of
  • comparing the Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander People’s seasonal calendar for the local area with one students are familiar with, such as the four-seasons calendar derived from Europe

  VCGGK067 | The Humanities | Geography | Foundation to Level 2 | Geographical Knowledge | Places and our connections to them

• VCGGC104

  Analyse maps and other geographical data and information using digital and spatial technologies as appropriate, to develop identifications, descriptions, explanations and conclusions that use geographical terminology

  Elaborations

  • using aerial images of contrasting places to identify differences in housing density
  • using graphs, weather maps and satellite images to examine the temporal and spatial patterns of a selected hydrological hazard in Australia and another region of the world, such as countries of the Asia region, or from the Pacific region
  • using digital maps and overlays of an area to observe, describe and contrast the spatial associations of geographical phenomena. For example, the relationship between economic activities and river systems and the availability of surface water
  • interpreting topographic maps and digital terrain models, cross-sections or block diagrams to investigate landforms and their features
  • reviewing the results of an analysis to propose and defend answers to a question, emphasising at least one of the geographical concepts of place, space, environment, interconnection, sustainability, scale or change

  VCGGC104 | The Humanities | Geography | Levels 7 and 8 | Geographical Concepts and Skills | Data and information

• VCGGK106

  Ways that flows of water connect places as they move through the environment and the ways this affects places

  Elaborations

  • explaining how the movement of water through the environment connects places. For example, the melting of snow in spring feeding rivers and dams downstream
  • investigating the environmental, economic and social effects of water as it connects people and places. For example, the effects of water in the Snowy Mountains, or of upstream irrigation on downstream water quality

  VCGGK106 | The Humanities | Geography | Levels 7 and 8 | Geographical Knowledge | Water in the world

• Geography: Levels 9 and 10 description

  In Levels 9 and 10, students consider changes in the characteristics of places and the implications of these. They consider significant spatial distributions and patterns and evaluate their implications, and consider interconnections between and within places and changes resulting from these,...

  Level description | The Humanities | Geography

• VCGGK149

  Application of environmental economic and social criteria in evaluating management responses to an environmental change, and the predicted outcomes and further consequences of management responses on the environment and places, comparing examples from Australia and at least one other country

  Elaborations

  • explaining how communities and governments attempt to balance environmental, economic and social criteria in decisions on environmental programs, and the extent to which there can be trade-offs between them
  • debating the practical and ethical dilemmas of national and international conservation programs aimed at the environmental change being investigated

  VCGGK149 | The Humanities | Geography | Levels 9 and 10 | Geographical Knowledge | Environmental change and management

• Geography: Levels 5 and 6 description

  In Levels 5 and 6, the curriculum focuses on the concepts of place and interconnection. Students’ mental maps of the world are further developed through learning the locations of the major countries in the Asia region, Europe and North America. The scale of study goes global as students...

  Level description | The Humanities | Geography

• VCGGK153

  Issues affecting the development of places and their impact on human wellbeing, drawing on a study from a developing country or region in Africa, South America or the Pacific Islands

  Elaborations

  • evaluating relationships between gross domestic product (GDP) per capita over time and trends in measures of wellbeing in the selected country or region

  VCGGK153 | The Humanities | Geography | Levels 9 and 10 | Geographical Knowledge | Geographies of human wellbeing