History / Year 10 / Historical Knowledge and Understanding

Curriculum content descriptions

The intensification of environmental effects in the twentieth century as a result of population increase, urbanisation, increasing industrial production and trade (ACDSEH125)

Elaborations
  • investigating the impact of early texts that warned about environmental change (for example, Silent Spring by Rachel Carson, 1962; Don’t it make you want to go home by Joe South, 1970; Mother Earth News magazine in 1970; Mercy mercy me (the ecology) lyrics by Marvin Gaye, 1971)
General capabilities
  • Numeracy Numeracy
  • Critical and creative thinking Critical and creative thinking
  • Ethical understanding Ethical understanding
Cross-curriculum priorities
ScOT terms

Human impact,  Urbanisation,  Population dynamics,  Pollution

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