Humanities and social sciences / Year 1 / Knowledge and Understanding / Geography

Curriculum content descriptions

Activities in the local place and reasons for their location (ACHASSK033)

Elaborations
  • identifying the activities located in their place (for example, retailing, medical, educational, police, religious, office, recreational, farming, manufacturing, waste management activities), locating them on a pictorial map, and suggesting why they are located where they are
  • identifying which resources they can recycle, reduce, re-use or none of these, and what local spaces and systems (for example, rules, signs, waste collection truck routes) support these activities
  • exploring activities in the local rivers, lakes and coastal waters and identifying constructed features (for example, Aboriginal eel traps, jetties, shark nets, fish farms)
  • describing how they rearrange the space within the classroom for different activities (for example, reading time or a drama)
General capabilities
  • Numeracy Numeracy
  • Critical and creative thinking Critical and creative thinking
ScOT terms

Industries,  Human settlements,  Environmental influences

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