Sustainability
Experiences at personal, local, national and global levels are linked to individual and community actions for sustainability.
Progression Points - Students Can:
evaluate projects at a local, national and global level
implement projects at a local level
plan for projects at a local level
generate ideas for projects at a local level, national and global level
identify a sustainability issue
Subject Mapping
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English |
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Mathematics |
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Science |
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History |
The growth and influence of the environment movement within Australia and overseas, and developments in ideas about the environment (notion of ‘Gaia’, ‘limits to growth’, concept of ‘sustainability’, concept of ‘rights of nature’). |
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Significant events and campaigns that contributed to popular awareness of environmental issues, such as the campaign to prevent the damming of Australia’s Gordon River, the nuclear accident at Chernobyl and the Jabiluka mine controversy in 1998. |
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Geography |
The challenges to food production, including land and water degradation, shortage of fresh water, competing land uses, and climate change, for Australia and other areas of the world. |
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The capacity of the world’s environments to sustainably feed the projected future population to achieve food security for Australia and the world. |
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The human-induced environmental changes that challenge sustainability. |
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Economics & Business |
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Civics & Citizenship |
Use democratic processes to reach consensus on a course of action relating to a civics or citizenship issue and plan for that action. |
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Dance |
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Drama |
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Media Arts |
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Music |
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Visual Arts |
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Digital Technologies |
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Design & Technologies |
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Health and Physical Ed |
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Work Studies |
Complete an action project utilising entrepreneurial behaviours to address an identified challenge or opportunity |