AC9HS5K04

Elaborations

• AC9HS5K04_E1identifying how First Nations Australian communities altered the environment and sustained ways of living through their methods of land and resource management; for example, firestick farming
• AC9HS5K04_E2exploring the extent of change in the local environment over time (for example, through vegetation clearance, fencing, urban development, drainage, irrigation, erosion, farming, the introduction of grazing livestock such as sheep and cattle, forest plantations or mining), and evaluating the effects of change on economic development and environmental sustainability
• AC9HS5K04_E3exploring examples of positive influences people have on the characteristics of places; for example, reforestation, land-care groups, rehabilitating former mining, industrial or waste disposal sites
• AC9HS5K04_E4identifying positive and negative influences of people on places in other countries, including countries in Asia, Europe and North America