GeogSpace: years 9-10 - key understandings

• Illustration 1: Sustainability considers the geographical concept of sustainability together with the cross-curriculum priority Sustainability in relation to the curriculum in years 9 and 10. The interconnections of sustainability and sustainable development are explored.
• Illustration 2: Perceptions of places focuses on narratives about people's perceptions of places, which enable students to explore their own personal geographies and to stimulate their curiosity about places and the differences between them. Students are encouraged to develop informed approaches towards sustainability and the human-induced environmental changes that challenge sustainability.
• The resource helps students attain the achievement standard for year 9 in which students explain people's different perceptions and values about places and in year 10 when they examine sustainability in terms of the impact of people's different perceptions and values when making decisions.
• The resource supports the general capabilities of Literacy, Numeracy, Critical and creative thinking, Personal and social capability, and Intercultural understanding and allows for the development of Ethical understanding. The cross-curriculum priorities of Sustainability, Asia and Australia's engagement with Asia and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander histories and cultures are evident in relation to the perceptions people have of place and in relation to sustainability.

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