Stage 2 Geography – HaSS (NSW Curriculum)

Drawn from the NSW Geography Syllabus K-10 (2015) – Stage 2

 

• Stage/Year Level: Stage 2 (Years 3–4)

• KLA: Humanities and Social Sciences (HaSS) – (Geography strand) from the NSW Curriculum (NESA, 2015)

 

• Content Strand:  The Earth’s Environment

ACHGK021 – Investigate the importance of natural vegetation and natural resources to environments, animals, and people

ACHGK023 – Investigate the ways people, including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples, value environments

ACHGK022 – Identify types of natural vegetation (e.g., forests, grasslands, deserts) and explain their environmental functions (habitats, oxygen production), as well as benefits to people (food, medicine, materials).

ACHGK025 – Investigate sustainable practices that protect environments, including those of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples (e.g., sustainable agriculture, waste management, Indigenous resource use)

 

Key Inquiry Questions 

• How do people connect with and care for the plants/trees and it's surrounding environments?

• What can we learn from Indigenous and Torres Strait Islander cultures, and the way they protect and use plants sustainably?

Syllabus Outcomes

• GE2-1: Describes features and characteristics of places and environments and how people (including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples) interact with them.

• GE2-2: Describes the ways people, places and environments interact.

• GE2-3: Examines differing perceptions about the management of places and environments.

Cross-Curriculum Priorities

• Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Histories and Cultures

• Sustainability

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