Year level Year 1 – Unit 4: Landscape changes

Inquiry question  How have local features changed over time?

Geographical concept Place, environment, change and sustainability.

Content descriptor on The natural, managed and constructed features of places, their

which the field trip is location, how they change and how they can be cared for

focused ACHASSK031.

Field trip description Students will participate in an excursion to the local river to research

and collect evidence of how extreme weather such as flooding,

droughts, and even pollution can cause landscape changes and impact

the rivers’ ecological conditions.

Inquiry skills and content Students will be able to identify and describe natural, managed and

descriptors the field trip constructed features of local places. This field trip will assist to

will develop develop students’ researching and analysing skills.

Researching

Collect data and information from observations and identify

information and data from sources provided ACHASSI019.

Analysing

Compare objects from the past with those from the present and

consider how places have changed over time ACHASSI023.