Indigenous Culture Homelands People and Our Changing Earth

Students locate the continents of Europe and North America and identify how people have changed a particular environment in a country within each of these continents.

Students explore how Australia’s first people altered the environment and sustained ways of living through methods of land and resource management. They evaluate the effects of change on environmental sustainability. They identify and explore how land features influence where people live, how people use spaces, and the impact natural disasters such as bush fires and floods have on the environment and communities.

In Lessons 1 to 17, students learn to:

identify and describe the location and direction of places
recognise and explain the characteristics of local places
recognise and explain the characteristics of regional places and states
identify and describe the interconnection between people and the human characteristics of places
recognise the effects of interconnections on the human characteristics of places
identify and describe interconnection between people and the environmental characteristics of places
recognise the effects of interconnections on the environmental characteristics of places
identify and describe the interconnections between components of environments
recognise geographical challenges
identify and describe different possible responses to a geographical challenge
identify and describe the location of a country using compass directions and distance
recognise and explain the characteristics of a country
identify and describe the interconnections between people and the human characteristics of a country, and recognise their effects
identify and describe the interconnections between people and the environmental characteristics of a country, and recognise their effects
identify and describe the interconnections between components of an environment of a country
recognise a geographical challenge in a country, then identify and describe different possible responses
present the findings of their portfolio of a particular country.

Lesson 1: Location and Direction
Lesson 2: Local Places
Lesson 3: Regions and States
Lesson 4: Human Connections
Lesson 5: Human Effects
Lesson 6: Environmental Connections
Lesson 7: Environmental Effects
Lesson 8: Environmental Components
Lesson 9: Geographical Challenges
Lesson 10: Responding to a Challenge
Lesson 11: Portfolio Item: Country Location
Lesson 12: Portfolio Item: Country Characteristics
Lesson 13: Portfolio Item: Country Connections to Humans
Lesson 14: Portfolio Item: Country Connections to Environments
Lesson 15: Portfolio Item: Country Environmental Components
Lesson 16: Portfolio Item: Country Challenges

Indigenous Culture Homelands

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