Elaboration ACDSEH004
describing the methods used by the Romans to manage resources (for example, the water supply through aqueducts and plumbing systems)
Elaboration | ACDSEH004 | Content Descriptions | Year 7 | History | Humanities and Social Sciences | F-10 curriculum
ACDSEH068
The way Polynesian societies used environmental resources (sustainably and unsustainably), including the extinction of the moa in New Zealand, the use of religious/supernatural threats to conserve resources, and the exploitation of Easter Island’s palm …
Elaborations ScOT Terms
ACDSEH068 | Content Descriptions | Year 8 | History | Humanities and Social Sciences | F-10 curriculum
ACDSEH028
The background to environmental awareness, including the nineteenth century National Parks movement in America and Australia
Elaborations ScOT Terms
ACDSEH028 | Content Descriptions | Year 10 | History | Humanities and Social Sciences | F-10 curriculum
ACDSEH125
The intensification of environmental effects in the twentieth century as a result of population increase, urbanisation, increasing industrial production and trade
Elaborations ScOT Terms
ACDSEH125 | Content Descriptions | Year 10 | History | Humanities and Social Sciences | F-10 curriculum
ACDSEH128
Responses of governments, including the Australian Government, and international organisations to environmental threats since the 1960s, including deforestation and climate change
Elaborations ScOT Terms
ACDSEH128 | Content Descriptions | Year 10 | History | Humanities and Social Sciences | F-10 curriculum
Elaboration (1) ACDSEH068
explaining the significance of Rahui as a way of prohibiting the collection of resources, to ensure their sustainability
Elaboration (1) | ACDSEH068 | Content Descriptions | Year 8 | History | Humanities and Social Sciences | F-10 curriculum
ACDSEH127
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
Elaborations ScOT Terms
ACDSEH127 | Content Descriptions | Year 10 | History | Humanities and Social Sciences | F-10 curriculum
Elaboration ACDSEH128
explaining the responses of governments and organisations to environmental threats (for example, New Zealand’s anti-nuclear policy, the United States’ Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability Act 1980 (CERCLA), Australia’s first …
Elaboration | ACDSEH128 | Content Descriptions | Year 10 | History | Humanities and Social Sciences | F-10 curriculum
Elaboration ACDSEH127
investigating a range of environmental impacts (for example, the flooding of Lake Pedder in Tasmania, deforestation in Indonesia, the decline of the Aral Sea, the Exxon Valdez oil spill, the whaling industry)
Elaboration | ACDSEH127 | Content Descriptions | Year 10 | History | Humanities and Social Sciences | F-10 curriculum
ACDSEH062
Theories of the decline of Angkor, such as the overuse of water resources, neglect of public works as a result of ongoing war, and the effects of climate change
Elaborations ScOT Terms
ACDSEH062 | Content Descriptions | Year 8 | History | Humanities and Social Sciences | F-10 curriculum
Elaboration ACDSEH125
investigating the impact of early texts that warned about environmental change (for example, Silent Spring by Rachel Carson, 1962; Don’t it make you want to go home by Joe South, 1970; Mother Earth News magazine in 1970; Mercy mercy me (the ecology) lyrics …
Elaboration | ACDSEH125 | Content Descriptions | Year 10 | History | Humanities and Social Sciences | F-10 curriculum
ACDSEH064
The use of environmental resources in Shogunate Japan and the forestry and land use policies of the Tokugawa Shogunate
Elaborations ScOT Terms
ACDSEH064 | Content Descriptions | Year 8 | History | Humanities and Social Sciences | F-10 curriculum
Elaboration ACDSEH061
describing the main features of the water management system at Angkor (for example, the extensive use of reservoirs and canals)
Elaboration | ACDSEH061 | Content Descriptions | Year 8 | History | Humanities and Social Sciences | F-10 curriculum
Elaboration ACDSEH062
exploring theories about the decline of the Khmer civilisation (for example, the development of an unstable climate such as drought and monsoons; the rise of Theravada Buddhism; the breakdown of Angkor’s water management system)
Elaboration | ACDSEH062 | Content Descriptions | Year 8 | History | Humanities and Social Sciences | F-10 curriculum