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• VCGGK136

  Human alteration of biomes to produce food, industrial materials and fibres, and the environmental effects of these alterations

  Elaborations

  • identifying the biomes in Australia and overseas that produce some of the foods and plant material people consume
  • investigating ways that the production of food and fibre has altered some biomes through, for example, vegetation clearance, introduction of exotic species, drainage, terracing and irrigation
  • using the concept of a system to identify the differences between natural and agricultural ecosystems in flows of nutrients and water, and in biodiversity

  VCGGK136 | The Humanities | Geography | Levels 9 and 10 | Geographical Knowledge | Biomes and food security

• VCGGK138

  Challenges in feeding the current and projected populations of Australia and the world, and responses to these challenges

  Elaborations

  • examining the effects of anticipated future population growth on global food production and security, and its implications for agriculture and agricultural innovation
  • researching the potential of agricultural production in northern Australia
  • identifying how poverty, food wastage, government policies and trade barriers could affect future food security
  • applying an understanding of the functioning of natural and agricultural ecosystems to investigate ways of making Australian agriculture more sustainable
  • examining a contemporary geographical issue related to food production and security and debating alternative responses that consider environmental, economic and social factors

  VCGGK138 | The Humanities | Geography | Levels 9 and 10 | Geographical Knowledge | Biomes and food security

• VCGGK122

  The causes and consequences of urbanisation, drawing on a study from Indonesia

  Elaborations

  • discussing urbanisation as a shift in where, how and why people live where they do
  • exploring the connections between urbanisation and economic and social opportunities
  • examining how urbanisation can affect environmental quality. For example, carbon emissions and water consumption

  VCGGK122 | The Humanities | Geography | Levels 7 and 8 | Geographical Knowledge | Changing nations

• VCGGK120

  Spiritual, cultural and aesthetic value of landscapes and landforms for people, including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, that influence the significance of places, and ways of protecting significant landscapes

  Elaborations

  • discussing the significance of landscapes in literature, song/music, film, art and identity
  • analysing the role of landforms and landscapes in tourism. For example, Uluru in Australia or the Grand Canyon in the USA
  • exploring the multilayered meanings (material, cultural and spiritual wellbeing) associated with landscapes and landforms by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples
  • identifying different views about the recreational, psychological, aesthetic and spiritual value of particular environments and about the nature and extent of their protection, and discussing how this links to ideas about environmental sustainability
  • investigating a significant landscape that is threatened by human activities and developing a proposal for the future of the landscape that takes account of the views of the diverse groups, including Traditional Owners, with an interest in its use or protection

  VCGGK120 | The Humanities | Geography | Levels 7 and 8 | Geographical Knowledge | Landforms and landscapes

• VCGGK151

  Reasons and consequences for spatial variations in human wellbeing on a regional scale within India or another country of the Asia region; and on a local scale in Australia

  Elaborations

  • 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
  • examining how a person’s wellbeing is influenced by where they live, with reference to at least two different scales in a country of the Asia region
  • researching spatial differences in the wellbeing of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander population across Australia, and the extent to which these differences depend on how wellbeing is measured
  • explaining the spatial pattern of human wellbeing in Australia at a local scale, such as within a city or region, and its causes

  VCGGK151 | The Humanities | Geography | Levels 9 and 10 | Geographical Knowledge | Geographies of human wellbeing

• VCGGK036

  Places are represented at a variety of scales

  Elaborations

  • investigating the relative size of features in a place, to develop awareness of scale
  • developing an awareness of scale by viewing and investigating how places are represented in different scales

  VCGGK036 | The Humanities | Geography | Level C | Geographical Knowledge | Places and our connections to them

• VCGGK112

  Influence of accessibility to services and facilities; and environmental quality, on the liveability of places

  Elaborations

  • 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
  • examining the role transport plays in people’s ability to access services and participate in activities in the local area
  • explaining the importance of water quality to the liveability of places
  • investigating the concept of environmental quality and surveying the environmental quality of their local area and its effect on liveability
  • exploring the geomorphology of the land and how this affects the liveability of a place

  VCGGK112 | The Humanities | Geography | Levels 7 and 8 | Geographical Knowledge | Place and liveability

• VCGGK052

  The Countries/Places that Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people belong to in the local area

  Elaborations

  • exploring local aboriginal Country/Places and what special events they are used for
  • investigating dreaming stories and their relationship to local features and places

  VCGGK052 | The Humanities | Geography | Level D | Geographical Knowledge | Places and our connections to them

• VCGGK065

  Connections of people in Australia to other places in Australia and across the world

  Elaborations

  • examining the ways people are connected to other places through, for example, relatives, friends, things people buy or obtain, holidays, sport, family origin, beliefs, and places of particular significance
  • discussing how their place may be connected to events that have happened in other places, for example, sporting events such as the Olympic Games or natural disasters like the tsunami in Indonesia

  VCGGK065 | The Humanities | Geography | Foundation to Level 2 | Geographical Knowledge | Places and our connections to them

• VCGGK013

  Experience the purpose of or the special event/s of a space

  Elaborations

  • exposed to the purpose of a space in a place, for example swimming in the middle pool at the local pool, shopping at supermarket at the local shops
  • exposed to special events and reacting to sensory element they experience, for example cream, face paint, whistle, sand, visual images
  • exposed to the caring and maintaining of a space, for example, watering, cleaning up
  • reacting to sensory element of an event or activity experienced in a place, for example decorations, food or parade

  VCGGK013 | The Humanities | Geography | Level A | Geographical Knowledge | Places and our connections to them

• VCGGK126

  The challenges of managing and planning Australia’s urban future

  Elaborations

  • examining the forecasts for the size of Australia’s major cities and regional urban centres, and discussing the implications for their environmental sustainability and liveability
  • investigating ways of managing the projected growth of Australia’s cities and regional urban centres
  • exploring the arguments for and against a more balanced distribution of the urban population
  • examining how Canberra can be used as an example of urban decentralisation
  • proposing action to respond to geographical issues related to urbanisation

  VCGGK126 | The Humanities | Geography | Levels 7 and 8 | Geographical Knowledge | Changing nations

• VCGGK116

  Different types of landscapes and their distinctive landform features

  Elaborations

  • identifying different types of landscapes, such as coastal, riverine, arid, mountain and karst, and describing examples from around the world, including Antarctica
  • identifying some iconic landforms in Australia and the world, and describing what makes them iconic
  • exploring the names, meanings and significance of landform features from an Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander perspective

  VCGGK116 | The Humanities | Geography | Levels 7 and 8 | Geographical Knowledge | Landforms and landscapes

• VCGGK055

  What people do in specific spaces

  Elaborations

  • assisting to construct a recount of what a place can be used for
  • identifying how they look after a place
  • identifying some rules about a place, for example, not running, quiet voice etc.
  • participating in structured activities which investigate different places and what they do and do not do in each place
  • identifying and following rules and expectations within a place

  VCGGK055 | The Humanities | Geography | Level D | Geographical Knowledge | Places and our connections to them

• VCGGK154

  Role of initiatives by international and national government and non-government organisations to improve human wellbeing in Australia and other countries

  Elaborations

  • investigating ways of reducing inequalities in wellbeing between places at a local scale in Australia
  • discussing the objectives and outcomes of an Australian Government overseas economic and social development program or a non-government overseas aid program in a specific country or region within a country
  • identifying ways to improve the wellbeing of remote Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander communities, including ways proposed by the communities

  VCGGK154 | The Humanities | Geography | Levels 9 and 10 | Geographical Knowledge | Geographies of human wellbeing

• VCGGK021

  Moving to different places and recognising some features/places on the way

  Elaborations

  • experiencing transportation, places and activities being represented using word, gesture, Picture Communication Symbols (PCS) and/or image
  • responding to significant objects/ places on a journey, for example, truck, shopping centre
  • assisting to constructed a multimedia text to represent a place and the journey there

  VCGGK021 | The Humanities | Geography | Level B | Geographical Knowledge | Places and our connections to them

• VCGGK066

  Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Country/Place on which the school is located and why Country/Place is important to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, and the ways in which they maintain special connections to particular Country/Place

  Elaborations

  • identifying and using the name of the local Aboriginal/Torres Strait Islander Language Group
  • identifying how and why the words Country/Place are used by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples for the places to which they belong
  • inviting members of the Traditional Owner Group to talk about Country and Places of cultural and historical significance to the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander community in the local neighbourhood, suburb, town or rural locality
  • discussing how some people are connected to one Country, for example, because it is ‘mother’s’ Country or ‘father’s’ Country
  • describing the connections of the local Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander peoples with the land, sea, sky and animals of their Country/Place

  VCGGK066 | The Humanities | Geography | Foundation to Level 2 | Geographical Knowledge | Places and our connections to them

• VCGGK098

  Australia’s connections with other countries and how these change people and places

  Elaborations

  • investigating a significant event, such as a severe earthquake or the Olympic Games, and examining its local, regional and global effects on people and places, and discussing the types of responses
  • researching connections between Australia and countries in the Asia region, for example, through trade, migration, tourism, aid, education, defence or cultural influences; and explaining the effects of at least one of these connections on their own place and another place in Australia
  • exploring the provision of Australian government or non-government aid to a country in the Asia region or elsewhere in the world and analysing its effects on places in that country
  • investigating the influence of longitude, time zones and the International Date Line on connections with other countries

  VCGGK098 | The Humanities | Geography | Levels 5 and 6 | Geographical Knowledge | Factors that shape places and influence interconnections

• VCGGK024

  Experience dreaming stories of the local country/places and their features

  Elaborations

  • experiencing and participating in cultural events in appropriate community places
  • experiencing the communication of the name of a place and related activity
  • reacting to element/s within a multimodal retelling of a dreaming story

  VCGGK024 | The Humanities | Geography | Level B | Geographical Knowledge | Places and our connections to them

• VCGGK115

  Strategies used to enhance the liveability of places, especially for young people, including examples from Australia and Europe

  Elaborations

  • researching methods implemented in Australia and Europe to improve the liveability of a place, and evaluating their applicability to their own locality
  • developing a specific proposal to improve an aspect of the liveability of their place, taking into account the needs of diverse groups in the community, including, for example, young people through fieldwork in the local recreation area or Traditional Owners by developing bilingual signage or indigenous garden projects
  • discussing the impact of increasing housing density on the liveability of places, and on their environmental sustainability

  VCGGK115 | The Humanities | Geography | Levels 7 and 8 | Geographical Knowledge | Place and liveability

• VCGGK110

  Causes of an atmospheric or hydrological hazard and its impacts on places, and human responses to it to minimise harmful effects on places in the future

  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
  • explaining the economic, environmental and social impacts of a selected atmospheric or hydrological hazard on people and places, and investigating community responses to the hazard

  VCGGK110 | The Humanities | Geography | Levels 7 and 8 | Geographical Knowledge | Water in the world