Humanities - The Global Challenge

Subject Area: Humanities - History / Politics  

Unit of Study: The Global Challenge

Brief Description: How can we grapple with the global, existential challenges of environmental decline? Climate change is one of the biggest issues facing our species, and in order for us to tackle it, we need to be as informed and aware as possible. The Global Challenge investigates the relationship between environmental change, people, and ecopolitical factors that have created some of the most urgent problems of our time. It introduces you to processes, approaches, and theories that will help make sense of the complexity that is the climate emergency, and will enable you to engage in a universal effort to stop it

Scaffolding Learning

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

An understanding of key knowledge

• Environmental, economic and technological factors that influence environmental change and human responses to its management (VCGGK145)
• Causes and consequences of an environmental change, comparing examples from Australia and at least one other country (VCGGK147)
• Issues affecting the development of places and their impact on human wellbeing, drawing on a study from a developing country or region in Africa, South America or the Pacific Islands (VCGGK153)

Attained these key skills 

• Predict changes in the characteristics of places over time and identify the possible implications of change for the future (VCGGC127)
• Collect and record relevant geographical data and information, using ethical protocols, from reliable and useful primary and secondary sources (VCGGC130)
• Select, organise and represent data and information in different forms, including by constructing special purpose maps that conform to cartographic conventions, using digital and spatial technologies as appropriate (VCGGC131)

Demonstrated the Victorian curriculum standards and capabilities

• Sustainability
• Intercultural capability
• Ethical capability
• Literacy and numeracy

Assessment Tasks

Students will be required to complete the following assessment tasks:

• Natural Disaster Reporting - Mock Editorial
• Gathering Data and Fieldwork - Combined Excursion and Assessment
• Future Proofing Our World - Group Project
   

Additional learning opportunities

• Excursion to the Melbourne earthquake fault lines
• Assessment task fieldwork
• Victorian State Emergency Service school incursion

Resources

1. Matilda Education - Year 10 Humanities Textbook
2. Digital device (laptops preferred)

Pathways

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