Unit 1: Investigating Australia's Physical Environment
Focus: The unique characteristics of Australia's physical environments and the responses of people to the challenges they present.
The Australian Content
- · Australia's geographical dimensions
- The origins of the continent
Physical characteristics that make Australia unique
- Major landforms and drainage basins
- Patterns of: climate; weather; natural resources; vegetation
- Unique flora and fauna
- Natural hazards in Australia
o The nature of the natural hazard in Australia
o The geographical processes involved
o The impacts of the natural hazard
o The responsibility and responses of individuals, groups and various levels of government to the impact of the natural hazard
ICT
Create a formatted, multiple-paged document containing web-links to communicate geographical information
Unit 2: Changing Australian Communities
Focus: Ways in which communities in Australia are responding to change.
Outcomes
Human characteristics that make Australia unique
- Demographic characteristics
Types of communities
- Types of communities in Australia including indigenous communities
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Differences within and between Australian communities
Factors causing change in Australian communities
- Factors causing change
o Changing nature and patterns of work
o Cultural integration
o Demographic change
o Globalisation of economic activity
o Lifestyle expectations
o New technologies
o Recognition of native title
o Resource depletion
One Australia Community
- Factors that contribute to the community's sense of identity
- Factors causing change in the community
- Individuals, groups and levels of government involved in the process of change
- Community responses to change
- Purpose, structure and actions of community groups responding to change
ICT
- Design and create a simple database from student research
- Import data from other ICT applications into student research findings