Content Descriptor Elaborations Cross Curricular Priorities

Year 4 Geography
The Earth’s Environment - Explaining how people’s connections with their environment can also - Critical and
Sustains All Life be aesthetic, emotional and spiritual. Creative Thinking
- Personal and social
The importance of capability
environments to animals and
people, and different views
on how they can be protected
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The natural resources (e.g.
water, timber, minerals)
provided by the environment
and different views on how
they can be used sustainably
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- Identifying some of the resources produced by the environment - Critical and
and where they come from. creative thinking
- Identifying renewable and non-renewable resources - Personal and Social
- Investigating where a renewable natural resource comes from, Capability
how it its used and sustainable management strategies (for - Ethical
example, recycling paper or planting more trees.) Understanding
- Exploring the work of groups and organisations which manage
natural resources and/or waste.

Inquiry Question:
Students are encouraged to discover and be curious about the world around them. How do people’s choices and actions affect the
beaches around Geraldton, and how can we encourage people to use environments for recreation/leisure and care for them more
sustainably?
Purpose of the Field Trip:
The purpose of the field trip is to explore two of the local beaches that are used by the community for leisure/recreation and to collect,
identify and record the man-made products that may wash up on the shores. Students will collect data based on the items that they find
and use it to create a brochure through the use of different mediums, to encourage people to be more actively involved in the
community and keep our beaches clean, and free from waste, and our marine animals safe.