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Elaboration (1) ACHHS186

recognising the role of ICT in providing access to sources and the need to ask relevant questions of those sources (for example, a Google search for ‘significance of Kokoda’)

Elaboration (1) ACHHS187

explaining the context of a source such as the Bringing Them Home Report (1997) and the significance of that context in understanding responses to the report (with varying perspectives)

Elaboration (1) ACHHS189

discussing the reliability and usefulness of Martin Luther King’s 1963 ‘I Have A Dream’ speech as a source to assist in understanding the aims and motivations of the US Civil Rights movement

Elaboration (1) ACHHS191

explaining the enthusiasm of young people for the 1957 rock’n’roll tours of Australia and the opposition of older generations, as reflected in the sources

explaining the significance of the fall of Singapore (1942) in the changes in Australia’s military alliances and use of troops during World War II, using a range of sources (for example, accounts of prisoners of war, commanders such as General Gordon …

Elaboration (1) ACHGK037

describing how water is an available resource when it is groundwater, soil moisture (green water), and surface water in dams, rivers and lakes (blue water), and a potential resource when it exists as salt water, ice or water vapour

Elaboration (1) ACHGK038

investigating the environmental, economic and social uses of water and the effects of water as it connects people and places (for example, the effects of water diversion in the Snowy Mountains)

Elaboration (1) ACHGK039

interpreting the spatial distribution of rainfall in Australia and comparing it with the distribution of that of other continents

Elaboration (1) ACHGK040

discussing the advantages and disadvantages of strategies to overcome water scarcity (for example, recycling (‘grey water’), stormwater harvesting and re-use, desalination, inter-regional transfer of water and trade in virtual water, and reducing water …

Elaboration (1) ACHGK041

exploring the multilayered meanings (material, cultural and spiritual wellbeing) associated with rivers, waterways, waterholes, seas, lakes, soaks and springs for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples

Elaboration (1) ACHGK042

explaining the economic, environmental and social impacts of a selected atmospheric or hydrological hazard on people and places, and describing community responses to the hazard

Elaboration (1) ACHGK043

discussing the concept of liveability and the ways it is measured and comparing objective measures such as transportation infrastructure with subjective measures such as people's perceptions

Elaboration (1) ACHGK044

examining the role transport plays in people’s ability to access services and participate in activities in the local area

Elaboration (1) ACHGK045

explaining the importance of water quality to the liveability of places, now and into the future

Elaboration (1) ACHGK046

investigating the extent to which people in their place are socially connected or socially isolated and its effect on liveability

Elaboration (1) ACHGK047

developing a specific proposal to improve an aspect of the liveability of their place, taking into account the needs of diverse groups in the community, including young people (for example, through fieldwork in the local recreation area) or traditional …

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