Biomes - Australian Curriculum Links
Humanities - Geography
Year 5
Geography
Concepts for developing understanding
The content in the geography sub-strand provides opportunities to develop students’ understanding of place, space, environment, interconnection, change and sustainability. The curriculum focuses on the factors that shape the characteristics of places. They explore how climate and landforms influence the human characteristics of places, and how human actions influence the environmental characteristics of places (change, environment, place, interconnection). Students examine the way spaces within places are organised and managed (space, place), and how people work to prevent, mitigate and prepare for natural hazards (environment, place).
Inquiry Questions
Biomes and food security’
‘Biomes and food security’ focuses on investigating the role of the biotic environment and its role in food and fibre production. This unit examines the biomes of the world, their alteration and significance as a source of food and fibre, and the environmental challenges of and constraints on expanding food production in the future. These distinctive aspects of biomes, food production and food security are investigated using studies drawn from Australia and across the world.
Distribution and characteristics of biomes as regions with distinctive climates, soils, vegetation and productivity (ACHGK060)
Elaborations
Unit 3: Land cover transformations.
The concept of anthropogenic biomes and its implications for our understanding of the functioning of the world’s ecosystems. (ACHGE074)
Year 5
Geography
Concepts for developing understanding
The content in the geography sub-strand provides opportunities to develop students’ understanding of place, space, environment, interconnection, change and sustainability. The curriculum focuses on the factors that shape the characteristics of places. They explore how climate and landforms influence the human characteristics of places, and how human actions influence the environmental characteristics of places (change, environment, place, interconnection). Students examine the way spaces within places are organised and managed (space, place), and how people work to prevent, mitigate and prepare for natural hazards (environment, place).
Inquiry Questions
- How do people and environments influence one another?
- How do people influence the human characteristics of places and the management of spaces within them?
- How can the impact of bushfires or floods on people and places be reduced?
Biomes and food security’
‘Biomes and food security’ focuses on investigating the role of the biotic environment and its role in food and fibre production. This unit examines the biomes of the world, their alteration and significance as a source of food and fibre, and the environmental challenges of and constraints on expanding food production in the future. These distinctive aspects of biomes, food production and food security are investigated using studies drawn from Australia and across the world.
Distribution and characteristics of biomes as regions with distinctive climates, soils, vegetation and productivity (ACHGK060)
Elaborations
- identifying and describing the major aquatic and terrestrial biomes of Australia and the world, and their spatial distribution
- examining the influence of climate on biomass production (as measured by net primary productivity) in different biomes
Unit 3: Land cover transformations.
The concept of anthropogenic biomes and its implications for our understanding of the functioning of the world’s ecosystems. (ACHGE074)
Science
Biological Sciences
Year 5
Living things have structural features and adaptations that help them to survive in their environment (ACSSU043)
Year 6
The growth and survival of living things are affected by physical conditions of their environment (ACSSU094)
Year 7
Classification helps organise the diverse group of organisms (ACSSU111)
Biological Sciences
Year 5
Living things have structural features and adaptations that help them to survive in their environment (ACSSU043)
Year 6
The growth and survival of living things are affected by physical conditions of their environment (ACSSU094)
Year 7
Classification helps organise the diverse group of organisms (ACSSU111)
