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Life Skills

Life Skills for Stage 4/5

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.

Liveability of places

Content in Thinking and working geographically outlines how geographical concepts, inquiry skills and tools are to be integrated with the content in this focus area.

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Thinking and working geographically
  • Engage with relevant geographical concepts

  • Participate in geographical inquiry for the purpose of observing data, collecting and recording data and information, presenting findings and drawing conclusions

  • Use relevant geographical tools

  • Communicate ideas about the liveability of places through oral, visual, written or multimodal texts

Perceptions of liveability
  • Different places and environments where people live

  • Features and characteristics of the places where people live

  • Reasons people live in different places

  • Collection of data to represent why people live where they do

Influences and impacts on liveability
  • People’s and communities’ connections to a local area

  • Access to services and facilities that increase the liveability of a place

  • Impacts of physical influences on the liveability of a place

  • Impacts of human influences on the liveability of a place

Enhancing liveability
  • Factors that enhance the liveability of a place

  • Cultural connections to a place that enhance liveability

  • How caring for Country enhances liveability for Aboriginal Peoples

  • Initiatives that can engage people to enhance the liveability of the local area

  • Reasons for enhancing the liveability of a place

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