Geography / Year 9 / Geographical Knowledge and Understanding / Unit 2: Geographies of interconnections

Curriculum content descriptions

The effects of people’s travel, recreational, cultural or leisure choices on places, and the implications for the future of these places (ACHGK069)

Elaborations
  • investigating the global growth of tourism and its likely effects on the future of places
  • discussing the effects of peoples cultural and leisure choices on towns and cities (for example, predicting how changing choices may affect these and other places in the future)
General capabilities
  • Numeracy Numeracy
  • Critical and creative thinking Critical and creative thinking
  • Intercultural understanding Intercultural understanding
ScOT terms

Lifestyles,  Sustainable development,  Travel,  Tourism

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