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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.

Biomes and sustainable agriculture

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 food resources through oral, visual, written or multimodal texts

Biomes and productivity
  • Types of biomes found in Australia and around the world

  • Location of a type of biome in Australia

  • Features of biomes

  • Resources found in biomes that can be used for production

  • Protection of biomes as a natural resource

Factors influencing food production
  • Resources needed to grow our own food

  • Challenges that could affect growing our own food

  • Collection of data about environmental factors that affect food production

  • Factors that impact our food choices and food availability

Towards food security
  • Securing and managing food in our personal environment

  • Sustainable food practices in a community or local area

  • Ways in which Aboriginal Peoples' Knowledges and Practices inform sustainable food systems

  • Managing food security and resources in the local community

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