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Teacher notes<br />
General capabilities in Humanities and Social Sciences<br />
Capabilities are developed intrinsically throughout the lessons when students apply their <strong>Geography</strong> knowledge<br />
and skills confidently and successfully as active and informed citizens.<br />
Literacy<br />
Numeracy<br />
Information and<br />
Communication<br />
Technology<br />
Critical and creative<br />
thinking<br />
Personal and social<br />
capability<br />
Ethical<br />
understanding<br />
Intercultural<br />
understanding<br />
Students build knowledge using texts from primary and secondary sources. Students use text<br />
structures to compose texts and use specific vocabulary. Students recognise how language<br />
and images can be used to create meaning. Discussions are used to share points of view and<br />
communicate conclusions.<br />
Students count, measure and analyse data and information during inquiries. Students construct<br />
and interpret statistics, tables, graphs, maps and diagrams. Students observe patterns and<br />
trends across data and draw conclusions about relationships between variables.<br />
Digital technologies are used to locate, process, organise, analyse, evaluate and communicate,<br />
information. Students apply social and ethical protocols when dealing with online sites and social<br />
media.<br />
Students think deeply, through inquiry-based learning, when developing questions, assessing<br />
reliability of sources, interpreting data and proposing solutions.<br />
Students learn more about people, places, processes and phenomena. Through collaboration,<br />
students develop personal and interpersonal skills in order to communicate, negotiate and<br />
resolve conflicts within a team. They develop leadership, resilience, goal-setting and advocacy<br />
skills, which are essential in order to contribute to society.<br />
Students uncover diverse values and principles from around the world and investigate how these<br />
influence human activity. Students also learn about ethical issues when investigating people and<br />
places, in particular Indigenous populations.<br />
Students learn about the diversity of the world. They explore other cultures, how cultural<br />
identities are formed, the importance of interacting with other cultures and what it means for<br />
economic and political relationships.<br />
Concepts for developing geographical thinking<br />
The concepts of geographical thinking are embedded throughout the lessons. A scope and sequence chart is<br />
provided on the cover page of each section indicating which concepts are included in each lesson.<br />
Place<br />
Space<br />
Environment<br />
Interconnection<br />
Sustainability<br />
Scale<br />
Change<br />
Involves environmental features and human characteristics. It involves where things are located and<br />
how places are perceived by and connected to people. Places can be local or global.<br />
Involves the ways places are organised and managed by people to achieve a purpose. The<br />
location of a place influences environmental and human characteristics which form spatial<br />
distributions such as population density, road networks and trade routes.<br />
Involves the significance of the abiotic (non-living) and biotic (living) environment to human<br />
life. People use environments in different ways and can change the environment, therefore an<br />
understanding of cause and effect is required so sustainability can be addressed.<br />
Involves the interdependence of environmental and human processes. Places and people are<br />
interconnected with other people and places. Interconnections influence the characteristics of<br />
a place.<br />
Involves the capacity of the environment to sustain life in the future. It involves economic, social<br />
and health functions. Knowledge of environmental systems and how human actions affect them<br />
is required to understand sustainability.<br />
Involves examining geographical phenomena at different spatial levels, from local to global, and<br />
understanding that relationships can cross scales.<br />
Involves investigating how geographical phenomena have developed over time, including<br />
environmental, economic, social and technological changes. Understanding change can assist<br />
with predicting what will happen in the future and can help achieve sustainability.<br />
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