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Human Society and its Environment
Human Society and its Environment is the key learning area
in which students develop knowledge, understandings, skills,
and values and attitudes about people and their social and
physical environments.
The outcomes and content in this Human Society and Its Environment
K-6 syllabus are orgainised in four strands:
- Change and Continuity
- Cultures
- Environments
- Social Systems and Structures
Rationale
Human Society and its Environment K-6 provides a knowledge
base for students to gain understandings about change and
continuity, culture, environments, and social systems and
structures. Students will have the opportunity to learn about
people and the environments with which they interact. This
knowledge base provides the foundation for studies of Australian
and world history and geography, for social, cultural and
legal studies, for environmental and economic studies, and
for citizenship education.
Aim
The aim of Human Society and Its Environment is to develop
in students the values and attitudes, skills, and knowledge
and understandings that:
- enhance their sense of personal, community, national and
global identity;
- enable them to participate effectively in maintaining
and improving the quality of their society and environment.
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