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The Australian Curriculum v6.0 Geography: Rationale Rationale Geography is a structured way of exploring, analysing and understanding the characteristics of the places that make up our world, using the concepts of place, space, environment, interconnection, sustainability, scale and change. It addresses scales from the personal to the global and time periods from a few years to thousands of years. Geography integrates knowledge from the natural sciences, social sciences and humanities to build a holistic understanding of the world. Students learn to question why the world is the way it is, reflect on their relationships with and responsibilities for that world, and propose actions designed to shape a socially just and sustainable future. The concept of place develops students’ curiosity and wonder about the diversity of the world’s places, peoples, cultures and environments. Geography uses an inquiry approach to assist students to make meaning of their world.

Year 1 | Reading the landscape | Unit home Australian Curriculum: English Year 1 Sequence 1: What landscape is that? Sequence 2: Describing landscapes Sequence 3: Patterns of Australia Sequence 4: Landscape walk Sequence 5: Mapping our walk Sequence 6: Are we there yet? Sequence 7: What is it like there? Sequence 8: What do the stories say? Sequence 9: Where in the world? Sequence 10: The story so far Sequence 11: What don’t they tell us? Sequence 12: Landscape diorama How cross-curriculum priorities relate to this unit This unit of inquiry is not based around any of the cross-curriculum priorities but they are evident in learning sequences. The priority of Sustainability6 is evident in Sequences 47, 10,8 11 9and 1210. The priority of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders histories and cultures11 is evident in Sequences 312 and 513. How General Capabilities relate to this unit Some of the texts used in this inquiry will provide an opportunity to engage with the capability of Intercultural Understanding26.

Australian Geography Teachers Association One World Centre Public Profiler Welcome | GeogSpace Understanding and Teaching the Australian Curriculum: Geography for Primary Schools Following the recent publication of the first-ever Australia Curriculum: Geography for F–12, primary school teachers are expected to play the key role in implementing the curriculum in Australian schools – yet most primary teachers are not geography scholars, and many are likely to lack confidence in teaching the subject due to their uncertainty about what it entails. Understanding and Teaching the Australian Geography Curriculum for Primary Schools is designed to ease the burden of primary teachers by showing them how to understand and use the curriculum they are being asked to teach. Features of the book include: By unpacking the Australian Curriculum: Geography in terms of that non-geographers can easily understand, this book takes work out of standards-aligned geography instruction, proving that geography is an interesting and important subject which imparts essential understandings and skills and contributes to the personal and social development of young children.

Geographical Association - home The Australian Curriculum v6.0 Technologies: Technologies Technologies Rationale Technologies enrich and impact on the lives of people and societies globally. Australia needs enterprising individuals who can make discerning decisions about the development and use of technologies and who can independently and collaboratively develop solutions to complex challenges and contribute to sustainable patterns of living. Technologies can play an important role in transforming, restoring and sustaining societies and natural, managed, and constructed environments. The Australian Curriculum: Technologies describes two distinct but related subjects: Design and Technologies, in which students use design thinking and technologies to generate and produce designed solutions for authentic needs and opportunities. The Australian Curriculum: Technologies will ensure that all students benefit from learning about and working with traditional, contemporary and emerging technologies that shape the world in which we live. Aims

Using the Australian Curriculum: Technologies to help teach geography in our schools.