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How can we use the environment in a How does the environment support
Understand learning Activity developed for this looking Cross Curricula Researching
Word Knowledge more sustainable manner own life and life of others Scale: Key Focus Area
Literacy area vocabulary at recycling and waste Objectives
Places are important to our security, identity and identifying some of the resources produced by
sense of belonging, and they provide us with the the environment and where they come from
services and facilities needed to support and enhance (for example, water, food and raw materials
our lives. Where people live can influence their such as fibres, timber and metals that make the Questioning
Recognise and use
wellbeing and opportunities. things they use). This directly links to Analysing patterns and relationships
Places are parts of the Earths surface that are Researching
Explain how peoples connection with their environment is important Cross Curricula identified and given meaning by people. They Environment, space and place Numeracy Interpret data displays
The ability to sustain life both
Explore particular strategies to protect environments both now and in the future Objectives now and in the future may be perceived, experienced, understood
and valued differently. Reflecting
Interpret maps
and diagrams
The places in which we live The sustainability of places may be threatened by a range Interpreting statistical information
Australian Curriculum Meaning of Place: The concept of
Inquiring identifying, exploring and Organise and are created, changed and place is about the significance of places and what they are of factors, for example, natural hazards; climate change;
Identify and clarify
organising information and ideas process information managed by people. like. In the Australian Curriculum: Geography, an economic, social and technological change; government
information and ideas
understanding of the concept of place is developed in the decisions; conflict; exhaustion of a resource and
following ways: environmental degradation.
Custodial responsibility of Aboriginal using geographical tools (for example, a globe, a wall
and Torres Strait Islander Peoples to map or digital application such as Google Earth) to An understanding of the current processes of change
their Country/Place identify the major countries of Africa and South America can be used to predict change in the future and to
and their relative locations. This links space, place and environment identify what would be needed to achieve preferred and
more sustainable futures