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Elaborations

• AC9HS4K06_E1exploring how some resources are used and managed in sustainable and non-sustainable ways; for example, auditing use of renewable and non-renewable resources in the classroom, investigating recycling and waste disposal of non-renewable resources in the school and by local government, reducing waste through “nude food” lunch boxes and using recycled toilet paper, examining how renewable resources such as timber are managed
• AC9HS4K06_E2investigating how First Nations Australians adapted ways using knowledge and practices linked to the sustainable use of resources and environments (for example, rotational use and harvesting of resources; mutton-bird harvesting in Tasmania; the use of fire; the use of vegetation endemic in the local area for food, shelter, medicine, tools and weapons; and the collection of bush food from semi-arid rangelands), and how this knowledge can be taught through stories and songs, reflecting their inherent, custodial responsibilities