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Core learning outcomes
This module focuses mainly on the following core learning outcomes from the Queensland Years 1-10 Science Syllabus and Years 1-10 Studies of Society & Environment (SOSE) Syllabus:
Science and Society
3.2 Students recognise the need for quantitative data when describing phenomena.
3.3 Students make predictions about the immediate impact of some applications of science on their community and environment, and consider possible pollution and public health effects.
Earth and Beyond
3.3 Students collect information that describes ways in which living things use the Earth and the sun as resources.
4.1 Students recognise and analyse some interactions (including the weather) between systems of Earth and beyond.
Life and Living
3.3 Students describe some interactions (including feeding relationships) between living things and between living and non-living parts of the environment.
Place and Space
PS 2.2 Students predict possible consequences for an ecological system when an element is affected.
PS 2.4 Students use and make simple maps to describe local and major global features including oceans, continents and hot and cold zones.
PS 2.5 Students express a preferred future vision for a familiar place based on observed evidence of changes and continuities.
PS 3.3 Students cooperatively collect and analyse data obtained through field study instruments and surveys, to influence the care of a local place.
PS 3.5 Students describe the values underlying personal and other’s actions regarding familiar places.
Systems, Resources and Power
SRP 3.1 Students make inferences about interactions between people and natural cycles, including the water cycle.
Core content
This module incorporates the following core content from the Queensland Years 1-10 Science Syllabus and Years 1-10 Studies of Society & Environment (SOSE) Syllabus:
Science and Society
Uses of science
- Influence on Australia
Application of science
- environment
- community
Earth and Beyond
Changes on Earth and beyond
- rock cycle, water cycle
Using the Earth’s environment
- to obtain needs
- sun, water, shelter, gases
Life and Living
Features of different environments
Natural interactions
- interactions between living and non-living things to meet needs
Ecosystems
- cycling of matter
- nitrogen, oxygen, carbon, water
Human influence
- Changes in biodiversity — conservation
Place and Space
Human-environment relationships
- human-environment interactions
Processes and environments
- causes and effects of ecological disruptions in places
- maps and field study data
Stewardship
- the importance of stewardship and active citizenship
Spatial patterns
- features of natural, built and social environments in familiar, local, state, Australian and global settings
- natural processes and spatial patterns including climate, weather, landforms and features, ecosystems, biodiversity, natural cycles and zones of the world
Systems, Resources and Power
Interactions between ecological and other systems
- relationships and consequences that result from interactions between ecological and economic, political and other systems in personal, local and global contexts, and notions of sustainability.
Last updated 31 August 2010
