Geography / Year 10 / Geographical Knowledge and Understanding / Unit 2: Geographies of human wellbeing

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Curriculum content descriptions

Reasons for spatial variations between countries in selected indicators of human wellbeing (ACHGK077)

Elaborations
  • investigating the economic, social, technological, political and or environmental causes of spatial inequality between countries
  • examining differences in indicators by gender across countries and within selected countries
  • investigating the interrelationships between the rate of population growth and human wellbeing in countries
  • examining how access to natural resources (for example, minerals and water) can affect wellbeing and be a source of conflict
General capabilities
  • Numeracy Numeracy
  • Critical and creative thinking Critical and creative thinking
  • Ethical understanding Ethical understanding
ScOT terms

Countries,  Wellbeing,  Social indicators

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Gapminder world

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This is an interactive resource featuring an animated scatter plot displaying the development of over 200 countries between 1800 and 2011 based on data for two variables, the default being income per person and life expectancy, with population size represented by the size of the plotted points (bubbles). The graph has a ...

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A geographical focus on 'Choose your own statistics'

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This teaching resource demonstrates ways in which real data can used to support geographical enquiry. It is based on the interactive learning resource Choose your own statistics, where data is presented in the form of infographics, graphical representations and data tables. It also includes supporting information on each ...

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Child wellbeing

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This is a web resource consisting of a database providing data on child wellbeing in OECD countries, including Australia. The 21 indicators used to measure child wellbeing are grouped into six categories: material wellbeing, housing and environment, educational wellbeing, health and safety, risky behaviours and quality ...

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Life expectancy PowerPoint

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This teacher resource is a PowerPoint presentation designed to address common student misunderstandings about life expectancy. It emphasises that life expectancy is an average, that most people live for much longer or shorter than their life expectancy and that, when life expectancy is low, it is mostly because of a very ...

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Development and health

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This is a web-based resource produced by BBC Scotland providing basic factual information and interactive exercises to explore the relationship between economic development and human health. The site is divided into two key topic headings, Development and Health. Subsections include human and physical factors, social and ...

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Has the world become a better place?

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This interactive resource is a Flash presentation with voice-over that considers whether conditions have improved in developing countries since 1962. The presentation uses an animated scatter plot showing fertility rate and child mortality for all countries from 1962 to 2003 and compares industrialised countries with developing ...

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Fair Trade resource page

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This is a wide-ranging set of resources about the fair trade initiatives of the world-wide development agency Oxfam. The resources include eight frequently asked questions about fair trade; an article entitled 'What’s wrong with world trade?'; a 7 min video and a poster tracing fair trade coffee from Papua New Guinea and ...

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Development and health - teacher resource

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This teaching sequence provides activities for students that link to a range of online resources, particularly the BBC website Development and health. It assists teachers to use particular websites and online tools that underpin learning and lines of inquiry. Students develop an understanding of the different dimensions ...

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GeogSpace: year 10 - exemplar

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This is a web page consisting of an overview and four illustrations of practice on the GeogSpace website, a resource for teachers. The four illustrations relate to two units of study in the Australian Curriculum: Geography. Environmental change and management draws on the concepts of environment, change, interconnection ...

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Difference Differently: thinking globally

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This is a resource with four related sets of student activities that explore global inequalities in human wellbeing and initiatives that aim to address this problem. It looks at global maps and data used to measure human wellbeing and explores the reasons for the variation. It explores the strategies used by the United ...

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Malaria - preventable and treatable?

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This is a compilation of three teaching sequences about the symptoms, treatment and preventative measures associated with malaria. It introduces this health issue and provides ideas and activities for classroom use. It uses spatial technologies and other digital resources including an interactive quiz, games, maps, animations ...

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Gender, institutions and development database, 2012 (GID-DB)

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This is a web resource consisting of a database of comparative data on discriminatory social institutions related to gender inequality for 21 countries in 2012. The database includes the 14 variables of the 2012 Social Institutions and Gender Index (SIGI), and the overall rankings and scores for the SIGI and its sub-indices: ...

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MDG 4: reducing child mortality

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This teacher resource is a step-through Flash presentation about the 4th Millennium Development Goal of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP). This goal, known as MDG 4, is about reducing child mortality, with the target of reducing the under-five years old mortality rate by two-thirds between 1990 and 2015, which ...

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Teacher's guide: 200 years that changed the world

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This is a teacher resource explaining how to use an animated scatter plot from Gapminder world in the context of a presentation to students about global development over the past 200 years. The resource consists of a step-by-step guide to making effective use of the scatter plot, which represents the development in wealth ...

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Population and development

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This is a rich multimedia professional learning module for primary and secondary teachers about the interrelationships between population, environment and development. It focuses on: global population patterns and trends; population growth rates; sustainable development; new understandings about population and development; ...

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Gross domestic product per capita: breakdown into components

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This is a web resource consisting of a database providing data for gross domestic product (GDP) per capita for 39 countries including Australia in 2011, and a breakdown into its components including GDP per hour worked and hours worked per head of population. A comparison with US data shows differences in labour utilisation, ...

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HIV AIDS: who's at risk?

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This is a compilation of three teaching sequences about HIV AIDS. It includes sections on the global distribution of people living with AIDS; the geography of AIDS; information about the disease; factors about its spread, prevention and treatment; its links to poverty and gender issues; and countries where there is a high ...

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Sovan Goldstraw

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This is a page on the NSW Migration Heritage website that contains the detailed biography of a Cambodian refugee, Sovan Goldstraw. Through the use of historical timelines, a written memoir, personal photographs and recorded video interviews, Sovan recalls her migration story after she was displaced from Cambodia to Australia ...

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Operation Aussie holiday

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A small percentage of tourists visit Australia in order to access medical services. Increasing the number of these tourists could potentially inject millions of dollars into the Australian economy. But does the hospital system get a 'clean bill of health' in terms of its capacity to cope with the increased demand?

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Hunger

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This is a multilayered web page series produced by the World Food Programme (WFP) and focusing on the issue of hunger across the world. The front page provides a definition of world hunger that refers to the Millennium Development Goals. Further information pages include 'What is hunger?' 'Who are the hungry?' 'What causes ...

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