Stage 3 Geography Unit
Factors That Shape Places |
S3 - Geographical Concepts:
- Place: the significance of places and what they are like .characteristics of places on a global level.
- Space: the significance of location and spatial distribution, and ways people organise and manage spaces that we live in e.g global patterns of spatial distribution; how people organise and manage spaces in their local environment.
- Environment: the significance of the environment in human life, and the important interrelationships between humans and the environment e.g how the environment influences people and places; how people influence the environment; the effect of natural disasters on the environment.
- Interconnection: no object of geographical study can be viewed in isolation e.g how environments influence where people live; ways people influence the characteristics of their environments; diversity of cultures and peoples around the world.
- Scale: the way that geographical phenomena and problems can be examined at different spatial levels e.g environmental and human characteristics of places on local, regional and global scales; the effect of global events on people and places locally, regionally and globally.
- Sustainability: the capacity of the environment to continue to support our lives and the lives of other living creatures into the future e.g extent of environmental change; environmental management practices; sustainability initiatives.
- Change: explaining geographical phenomena by investigating how they have developed over time e.g changes to environmental and human characteristics of places.
S3 - Inquiry Skills:
Acquiring geographical information
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Processing geographical information
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Communicating geographical information
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S3 - Geographical Tools: may include
Maps –
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Fieldwork –
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Graphs and statistics –
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Spatial technologies –
• virtual maps • satellite images • global positioning systems (GPS) Visual representations –
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Outcomes: A student...
GE3-1
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GE3-2
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GE3-3
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GE3-4
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Content Focus
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Key Inquiry Questions:
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Students investigate how people change the natural environment in Australia and other places around the world. They also explore how the environment influences the human characteristics of places. Students examine ways people influence the characteristics of places, including the management of spaces. Students explore the impact bushfires have on Australian people, places and environments and propose ways people can reduce the impact of bushfires in the future.
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Content:
Factors that change environments
Students:
Environments shape places
Students:
- comparison of how landforms influence where and how people live in Australia and another country |
Humans shape places
Students:
- examination of the natural and human features of neighbouring countries - comparison of the natural and human features of a city in Australia with a city in a neighbouring country Bushfire hazard
Students:
- description of the impact of the disaster on natural vegetation and the damage caused to communities - examination of how people can prevent and minimise the effects of a bushfire |
https://educationstandards.nsw.edu.au/wps/portal/nesa/k-10/learning-areas/hsie/geography-k-10/content/1183
BUSHFIRE MITIGATION
http://www.hsiensw.com/k-10-teaching-and-learning-framework.html |
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WHY LIVE WHERE?
http://www.hsiensw.com/k-10-teaching-and-learning-framework.html |
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CONTEMPORARY LAND USE
http://www.hsiensw.com/k-10-teaching-and-learning-framework.html |
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Revision:
Characteristics of Place - National Geographic
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Features of Places - Weather (State Library)
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Features of Places - Beaches (State Library)
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ABC:
Programme Planning Templates
s3_factorsthatshapeplaces.pdf | |
File Size: | 276 kb |
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updated Feb 2022