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Geography / Year 10 / Geographical Knowledge and Understanding / Unit 2: Geographies of human wellbeing

Curriculum content descriptions

Different ways of measuring and mapping human wellbeing and development, and how these can be applied to measure differences between places (ACHGK076)

Elaborations
  • examining and comparing different perceptions of human wellbeing (for example, by comparing student rankings of selected indicators)
  • identifying and evaluating different ways of measuring wellbeing (for example, per capita income or the UN Human Development Index), and applying them to investigate spatial variations in human wellbeing and comparing the results from different measures
  • examining the United Nations Millennium Development Goals and their relationship to human wellbeing
  • identifying trends in human wellbeing in countries over time
General capabilities
  • Numeracy Numeracy
  • Critical and creative thinking Critical and creative thinking
  • Ethical understanding Ethical understanding
ScOT terms

Human settlements,  Wellbeing,  Social indicators

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