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EARLY STAGE 1: TOPIC 1: PEOPLE LIVE IN PLACES

Content focus:

Students explore the places they live in and belong to. They develop an understanding of what makes a place special and how this may differ for different people. Students learn about the importance of looking after places. Students explore how the location of places can be represented.

Content:

Important places

Students investigate the importance of places they live in and belong to.

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander places
Students investigate the Countries/Places important to Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander Peoples.

Locating places
Students investigate how the location of places can be represented.

Key inquiry questions:

  • What are places like?
  • What makes a place special?
  • How can we look after the places we live in?

Geographical concepts:

  • Place: the significance of places and what they are like. For example: places students live in and belong to and why they are important.
  • Space: the significance of location and spatial distribution, and ways people organise and manage the spaces that we live in. For example: location of a place in relation to other familiar places.
  • Environment: the significance of the environment in human life, and the important interrelationships between humans and the environment. For example, how and why places should be looked after.

Outcomes:
A student:

  • identifies places and develops an understanding of the importance of places to people
  • communicates geographical information and uses geographical tools

Inquiry skills:
Acquiring geographical information

  • pose questions and make observations
  • record geographical data and information

Processing geographical information

  • represent data using charts or graphs
  • draw conclusions based on discussions of observations

Communicating geographically

  • present information
  • reflect on their learning

Geographical tools:
Maps

  • pictorial maps

Fieldwork

  • observing and recording data

Graphs and statistics

  • tally charts, pictographs

Spatial technologies

  • virtual maps

Visual representations

  • photographs, illustrations, story books, multimedia