Humanities and social sciences / Year 7 / Knowledge and Understanding

Curriculum content descriptions

The way that flows of water connect places as they move through the environment and the way these affect places (ACHASSK183)

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 importance of environmental flows
  • investigating the environmental, economic and social uses of water and the effects of water as it connects people and places (for example, the effects of water diversion in the Snowy Mountains)
General capabilities
  • Numeracy Numeracy
  • Critical and creative thinking Critical and creative thinking
ScOT terms

Water resources,  Human settlements

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