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11–12Geography 11–12 Syllabus

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Life Skills

Life Skills for Stage 6

Through collaborative curriculum planning, it may be decided that Life Skills outcomes and content are the most appropriate option for some students with intellectual disability.

Global sustainability

As part of this focus area, teachers may choose for students to undertake an individual, collaborative or class investigation on a sustainable economic activity. Students may complete a whole investigation, part of an investigation or selected aspects of the investigation.

Examples of sustainable economic activities that could be investigated have been provided. Teachers may choose their own example for investigation.

Examples of a sustainable economic activity:

  • energy production, eg a wind farm
  • agriculture, eg a permaculture, organic or biodynamic farm
  • forestry, eg a small-scale, family and/or Indigenous-owned and operated business
  • fishing, eg pole and line fishing
  • mining, eg use of equipment, alternative energy sources and waste-disposal procedures that are sustainable
  • manufacturing, eg making furniture from recycled timbers, producing textiles from hemp or recycled fibres
  • tourism, eg ecotourism, an Aboriginal-owned and managed art collective.
Sustainability in the contemporary world
  • Recognise the concept of ‘think globally, act locally’

  • Describe actions by people and communities that are sustainable

  • Identify sustainable management strategies

  • Recognise why land and natural resources need protection

  • Explore strategies for the protection of land and natural resources at a range of scales

  • Recognise how human actions contribute to changes in natural and human environments

  • Identify examples of sustainable management

  • Demonstrate how individual and collective action can have a positive impact on the local environment

  • Participate in individual and collective actions that have a positive impact on a regional or national scale, such as social media campaigns

  • Identify factors that might hinder sustainable action

Social sustainability
  • Explore individual and collective action for social sustainability at a range of scales

  • Participate in an individual or collective action for social sustainability

Economic sustainability
  • Explore individual and collective action for economic sustainability at a range of scales

  • Recognise data on a utility bill

  • Compare 2 household or workplace electricity bills for energy efficiency

  • Participate in a local community campaign that raises awareness of an economically sustainable activity

Environmental sustainability
  • Explore actions for environmental sustainability

  • Explore individual and collective action for environmental sustainability at a range of scales

  • Participate in an individual or collective action for environmental sustainability

Aboriginal, Torres Strait Islander and international Indigenous Peoples and sustainability
  • Recognise the importance of land to Aboriginal cultures and economic independence

  • Identify Aboriginal perspectives on actions for social, economic and environmental sustainability

  • Outline environmental sustainable management practices used by Indigenous Peoples around the world

Challenges to planning for sustainability
  • Explore some challenges to sustainable management solutions

  • Communicate a solution to a sustainable management challenge

Investigation: Sustainable economic activity
  • The scale of the sustainable economic activity

  • The environmental, social and/or economic characteristics of the activity

  • Opportunities for environmental, social and/or economic sustainability in the activity

  • Challenges to the implementation and maintenance of sustainable practices

  • An evaluation of the success of the sustainable activity

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