OES, UNIT 3 – OUTCOME 1 – Historical Relationships with Outdoor Environments (40 marks)

SAC 2 – CASE STUDY (about your chosen outdoor environment)

DATE – ____________________________

What to revise & assessment criteria for students

3.1.1 (2 + 2 + 2 = 6 marks)
Key knowledge addressed
 You should have an overview of the factors that have shaped the Australian outdoor environments before humans.
 You should have specific knowledge of these factors as experienced/observed/studied for your chosen outdoor environment.
Key skills needed
 Be able write an overview of your chosen outdoor environment before humans, EXPLAINING specifically how the characteristics of biological isolation, geological stability and climate
variations have led to the formation of unique flora and fauna.
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3.1.2 (4 + 4 = 8 marks)
Key knowledge addressed
 You should have an understanding of relationships with your chosen outdoor environment expressed by a specific Indigenous community before and after European colonization.
Key skills needed
 Be able to DESCRIBE the relationship with your chosen outdoor environment expressed by a specific Indigenous community before European colonisation.
 Be able to ANALYSE how the arrival of the European settlers influenced the relationship this specific Indigenous community had with your chosen environment.
3.1.3 (4 + 4 + 4 + 4 = 16 marks)
Key knowledge addressed
 You should have an understanding of relationships with Australian environments as influenced by the first non-indigenous setters’ experiences, increasing population, industrialization
and nation building.
Key skills needed
 Be able to ANALYSE the changing relationships (perceptions, interactions & impacts) with your chosen outdoor environment as influenced by each of the key historical events below. Be
able to include the time period associated with each historical event.
A. Arrival of the first non-Indigenous settlers
B. Increasing population
C. Industrialisation
D. Nation building
3.1.4 (3 + 4 + 3 = 10 marks)
Key knowledge addressed
 You should have an understanding of the foundation and role of environmental movements in changing relationships with outdoor environments, in relation to at least one of the
following: Lake Pedder (Tasmania), The Little Desert (Victoria) and The Franklin River (Tasmania) and the impact of increasing environmental awareness in Australia on the policies of
political parties.
Key skills needed
 Be able to DESCRIBE the environmental issue that gave rise to your chosen environmental movement.
 Be able to EVALUATE the role the specific environmental movement you have previously mentioned had in changing relationships with your chosen outdoor environment.
 Be able to ANALYSE how the increased environmental awareness that your chosen environmental movement affected has impacted on the policies of one political party.