People can manage natural resources in sustainable ways to meet their needs and wants
Location of natural resources (local, regional, global), including sun, air, plants, water, animals, coal, oil, and natural gas
Characteristics of renewable (infinite) and non-renewable (finite) resources
How people use natural resources to meet their needs and wants
Researchers inquire into people, issues and events by seeking answers to their questions
Pose and develop questions to guide an inquiry about people, events and/or issues by:
- Asking questions before, during and after an inquiry.
- Generating a range of questions, eg. reflective questions, probing questions.
Locate and collect relevant information and data from different sources including search engines and simple search functions.
Organise and represent information and data in a range of formats.
Sequence information about people and/or events using annotated timelines and/or flowcharts showing the stages of a process.
Examine multiple perspectives on actions, events and issues in the past and present.
Interpret information and data displayed in a range of formats, and where appropriate identify patterns and trends.
People can manage natural resources in sustainable ways to meet their needs and wants
How natural resources are managed in sustainable and unsustainable ways
Different perspectives on how to manage natural resources sustainably
Informed consumer choices can help to decrease the amount of waste in a production system
How products move through in a simple linear system of extraction (natural resources), production, consumption, and waste
Ways to prolong product life, limit waste and use waste as a resource
How consumer choices can limit the impact of waste on the environment