Humanities - The Global Challenge

Subject Area: Humanities - Geography  

Unit of Study: The Global Challenge

Brief Description: The Global Challenge explores the ways people interact with environments and the challenges of managing them sustainably. Through case studies in Australia and overseas, students analyse how different approaches to environmental management affect both people and places, and propose their own strategies for creating more sustainable futures.

Scaffolding Learning

At the conclusion of this unit of study, students will have: 

An understanding of key knowledge

• human-induced environmental changes and their impacts on the sustainability of places and environmental functions (G10K10)
• geographical approaches to understanding the causes and consequences of a selected environmental issue (G10K11)
• Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples’ approaches to custodial responsibility and environmental management (G10K12)
• the influence of people’s environmental worldviews on their support for environmental sustainability (G10K13)
• geographical approaches to the management of a selected environmental issue, including how environment, change, interconnection and sustainability can be considered to understand environmental issues (G10K14)

Attained these key skills 

• consider ethical values and perspectives to justify conclusions related to a phenomenon, issue or challenge using geographical concepts (G10S05)
• justify responses and develop and evaluate strategies using environmental, economic or social criteria, recommend a strategy and explain the predicted impacts (G10S06)
• explain and evaluate proposed actions, using geographical knowledge and concepts and appropriate methods, and incorporating and acknowledging research findings (G10S07)

Demonstrated the Victorian curriculum standards and capabilities

• Intercultural Capability
• Personal and Social Capability
• Ethical Capability
• Critical and Creative Thinking

Assessment Tasks

Students will be required to complete one of the following assessment tasks:

• Fieldwork report and recommendation
• Case study evaluation

Additional learning opportunities

• Excursion to Nangak Tamboree
• Incursion with Narrap Rangers (through the Wurundjeri Land Council)
• Utilising Geographical Information Systems

Resources

1. Textbook: Oxford Humanities 10
2. Digital device (laptops preferred)

Pathways

This unit of study could provide students with the following pathway.