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  • Place: the significance of places and what they are like
  • Space: the significance of location and spatial distribution, and ways people organise and manage the spaces that we live in
  • Environment: the significance of the environment in human life, and the important interrelationships between humans and the environment
  • Interconnection: no object of geographical study can be viewed in isolation
  • Scale: the way that geographical phenomena and problems can be examined at different spatial levels
  • Sustainability: the capacity of the environment to continue to support our lives and the lives of other living creatures into the future
  • Change: explaining geographical phenomena by investigating how they have developed over time

Students demonstrate an understanding of:

Continuums in Geography K–10
Stage Place Space Environment Interconnection Scale Sustainability Change
ES1

• places students live in and belong to and why they are important

• location of a place in relation to other familiar places

• how and why places should be looked after

       
1

• location and features of local places and other places in the world

• where activities are located and how spaces can be organised

• natural and human features of a place

• daily and seasonal weather patterns of places

• local and global links people have with places and the special connection Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples maintain with Country/Place

• various scales by which places can be defined such as local suburbs, towns and large cities

   
2

• natural and human features and characteristics of different places and their similarities and differences

• how people's perceptions about places influence their responses and actions to protect them

• settlements patterns within Australia, neighbouring countries and other countries

• how climate and environment influence settlement patterns

• interconnections between people and environments

• differing ways people can use environments sustainably

• interconnections between people, places and environments

• influence of people's values on the management and protection of places and environments and the custodial responsibilities of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples

• types of settlement across a range of scales

• the influence of climate across a range of scales

• ways in which people, including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples, use and protect natural resources

• differing views about environmental sustainability

• sustainable management of waste

 
3

• characteristics of places on a global level

• global patterns of spatial distribution

• how people organise and manage spaces in their local environment

• how the environment influences people and places

• how people influence the environment

• the effect of natural disasters on the environment

• how environments influence where people live

• ways people influence the characteristics of their environments

• diversity of cultures and peoples around the world

• environmental and human characteristics of places on local, regional and global scales

• the effect of global events on people and places locally, regionally and globally

• extent of environmental change

• environmental management practices

• sustainability initiatives

• changes to environmental and human characteristics of places

4

• factors influencing peoples' perceptions of places

• the special significance place has to some people

• the effect of global trade, transport, information and communication technologies on places across the world

• spatial distributions of landscapes, global water resources and natural hazards

• how location influences the ways people organise places

• processes that form and transform landscapes and landforms across the world

• the aesthetic, cultural, spiritual and economic value of environments to people

• the effect of human activities on natural and human environments

• how people are affected by the environment with regard to landscapes, climate, natural hazards and the liveability of places

• how people affect the environment such as people's use of water on its quality and availability as a resource

• management of geographical challenges across a range of scales from local to global

• responses and actions undertaken by governments, organisations and individuals

• communities operating at local and global scales

• pressures on the Earth's water resources and landscapes

• the need to manage environments for a long-term future

• sustainable management approaches

• changes to resources, landscapes and places over time through natural and human geographical processes and events

• the effect of management strategies in reducing the impact of natural and human processes

5

• the effect of local and global geographical processes such as urbanisation, migration and climate change on tangible places such as a country as well as less tangible places such as a community

• location of biomes and the spatial distribution of urbanisation, global patterns of food, industrial materials and fibre production and variations of human wellbeing

• conflicts arising from competing uses of space for agricultural, urban, recreational and industrial land uses

• the function and importance of the environment.

• the quality of the environment

• significant environmental challenges

• approaches to environmental management

• consequences of migration patterns on the location of origin and destination

• the economic, social and environmental factors influencing spatial variations in global human wellbeing

• interactions between geographical processes at different scales

• local alterations to environments can have global consequences

• changes at a global level can affect local environments

• management and protection of places and environments at local, regional, national and global scales

• short and long-term implications of environmental change on environments

• the importance of sustainable practices to ensure the wellbeing of people

• sustainable environmental worldviews and management approaches

• biomes altered to produce food, industrial materials and fibres and the environmental effects of these alterations

• the consequences of urbanisation

• the protection of places and environments as a result of sustainable management practices

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