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Bangkok and Liveability factors

Teacher guide Bangkok and Liveability factors

TLF ID M019540

This learning sequence investigates factors that influence liveability and the range of perceptions about what makes a place liveable. Students use Bangkok as a context to explore the idea that places provide us with the services and facilities needed to support and enhance our lives, and that spaces are planned and managed by people.

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Educational value
  • This resource is valuable for supporting a number of the year 7 Geographical Knowledge and Understanding content descriptions supporting the unit Place and liveability. Students explore the factors influencing liveability using Bangkok as a case study.
  • This resource is of significant value to support the implementation of the Asia and Australia’s engagement with Asia priority in Geography, with a focus on organising idea two, interrelationships between humans and the diverse environments in Asia shape the region and have global implications.
  • This resource is valuable as it provides teachers with strategies to support the implementation of the Intercultural Understanding capability, especially learning about and engaging with diverse cultures and the impact of significant events such as climate change in ways that create connections with others and cultivate mutual respect.
  • This resource is valuable as student activities develop Geographical inquiry and skills such as presenting findings and proposing individual and collective action
Year level

7; 8

Topics Creating texts Decision making Pollution Social services Word meanings Attitudes Data representation Human settlements Geographic location Evidence Health Referencing Sense of place Wellbeing
Learning area
  • Geography
  • Humanities and Social Sciences

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  • Author
  • Person: Pam Stewart
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  • Name: Education Services Australia
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  • Address: VIC, AUSTRALIA
  • URL: http://www.esa.edu.au/
  • Person: Pam Stewart
  • Description: Author
  • Copyright Holder
  • Name: Asia Education Foundation
  • Organization: Asia Education Foundation
  • URL: http://asiaeducation.edu.au
  • Publisher
  • Name: Asia Education Foundation
  • Organization: Asia Education Foundation
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  • URL: http://asiaeducation.edu.au
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  • Name: Education Services Australia Ltd
  • Organisation: Education Services Australia Ltd
  • Address: AUSTRALIA
  • URL: www.esa.edu.au
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  • Online
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  • With the exception of material on the AEF Portal that is owned by third parties, you may, for non-commercial educational purposes only, reproduce and communicate the Content provided that you include the copyright notice © The University of Melbourne and Education Services Australia Limited – Asia Education Foundation, 2014 (unless indicated otherwise) and any applicable acknowledgements; you may adapt the content provided that you acknowledge the source of the material as "The University of Melbourne and Education Services Australia Limited – Asia Education Foundation" and any applicable acknowledgement.