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

Curriculum content descriptions

The ways that places and people are interconnected with other places through trade in goods and services, at all scales (ACHGK067)

Elaborations
  • investigating how and why places are interconnected regionally, nationally and globally through trade in goods and services
  • investigating some of the products and/or services that businesses in their town, city or rural region sell to other places
  • examining tourism, students and retirees as sources of income for some places
General capabilities
  • Critical and creative thinking Critical and creative thinking
ScOT terms

Transport networks,  Telecommunications,  Globalisation,  Distribution (Marketing)

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