Level 1
Science - Park Natives
Describe, using appropriate language, scientific explorations of the chemical, physical and natural world.
Family and Neighbourhood
- Describe aspects of the student's life in familiar environments.
- Explain why families and other groups have rules, and how these rules are applied.
- Illustrate how people use and care for familiar environments.
Level 2
Science - Park Natives
- Identify simple patterns in observations arising from explorations of readily observable phenomena.
Community and Participation
- Examine change over time in the local community and environment.
- Explain what it means to be an active member of school and other groups within the community.
- Explain how and why resources are used and managed in the local community.
Level 3
SCIENCE - Endangered Species
Biological Science
Living together: past, present and future
- Describe environmental factors that affect the survival of living things.
Australia's people and places
- Compare how people use environments in Australia
Level 4
SCIENCE - Endangered Species
Biological Science
Living together: past, present and future
- Identify relationships between living things which help them survive in their habitat.
Living together: past, present and future
- Identify relationships between living things which help them survive in their habitat.
- Describe how selected systems of plants and animals function.
Geography
- Analyse different views about the use and care of Australian places.
Geography
- Locate and explain the distribution of significant natural and built features both in regions of Australia and globally, using maps and other geographical techniques.
- Describe the distribution of population in Australia and explain changing patterns of land use.
- Analyse different views about the use and care of Australian places.
Level 5
SOSE - Parks, People and Outdoor Activities
Geography
- Explain how natural processes and human activities change environments.
- Explain how people's use of natural and human environments changes over time.
- Develop a plan to address impacts of change.
Geography
- Explain how natural processes and human activities change environments.
- Explain how people's use of natural and human environments changes over time.
Living together: past, present and future
- Explain the biological basis of classification of organisms into major groups.
- Describe interactions between living things and between living things and their non-living surroundings.
Level 6
Geography - Parks, People and Outdoor Activities ( Level 6 SOSE)
- Explain the processes and interactions between people and major natural systems.
- Predict the effects of resource development and use on a selected natural and human environment.
- Develop a comprehensive strategy to resolve an issue related to the use and management of a natural or human environment.
VCE
Geography
Unit 1: Place and Change
- Describe and analyse the natural processes and human activities that alter places.
- Predict how natural processes and human activities may alter places.
- Describe and explain the geographic characteristics of resources.
- Evaluate policies designed to manage resource development and use.
- Describe and justify a policy for the future use of a resource, using data collected in the field.
Unit 1: Understanding Nature
- Describe ways in which humans understand, encounter and respond to nature.
- Explain factors which influence outdoor experiences and their impact on nature.
- Analyse policy and procedures for minimising human impact on natural environments.
- Analyse how particular perceptions and relationships have influenced an outdoor environment.
- Explain the evolution of human-nature relationships and their impact on the contemporary outdoor environment.
- Evaluate practices and strategies for the sustainable interaction of humans and outdoor environments.
- Evaluate processes of decision making which affect the use and sustainability of outdoor environments.
Unit 1: The Environment
- Analyse one human-induced environmental change and the options for remediation.
- Investigate and report on a local example of environmental degradation or an environmental issue, using an appropriate monitoring program.
