Year 7 Geography: Place and LiveabilityTopic Outline

Syllabus Dot Points

Influences and Perceptions: investigate factors influencing perceptions of liveability

Access to services and facilities: investigate the influence of accessibility to services and facilities on the liveability of places

Environmental quality: investigate the impact on the liveability of places

Community: investigate the influence of social connectedness and community identity on the liveability of places

Enhancing liveability: investigate strategies used to enhance the liveabilityof places using examples form different countries

Inquiry Questions

  • Why do people’s perceptions of liveability of places vary?
  • What effect does environmental quality and access to services have on people’s wellbeing?
  • How can strong community identity and social connectedness enhance the liveability of places?
  • What approachescan be used to improve the livability of places?

Metalanguage List. Learn them and use them

  1. Cosmopolitan
  2. Gentrification
  3. Liveability index
  4. Infrastructure
  5. Rural
  6. Urban
  7. Human right
  8. Culture
  9. Urban decay
  10. Urban sprawl
  11. Slums
  12. Housing density
  13. Famine
  14. Refugee
  15. Developed
  16. Developing
  17. Ecological footprint
  18. Super structures
  19. Standard of living
  20. Quality of life

Essential Questions.

  1. Examine environmental factors that influence perceptions of liveability eg climate, landforms natural resources
  2. Discuss human factors that influence perceptions of liveability eg culture, income, employment, crime and safety
  3. Explain the ways used to measure, assess or rank the liveability of places eg surveys, liveability index
  4. Develop a personal liveability criteria an application to a local place
  5. Identify services and facilities considered important to people’s wellbeing
  6. Examine variations in access to services and facilities between urban, rural and remote places
  7. Explain how access to services and facilities affects the liveability of ONE place for different groups
  8. Discuss factors that reduce environmental quality
  9. Compare the impact of environmental quality on liveabilityof places across a range of scales
  10. Identify the characteristics of places that influence community identity eg culture, environment, public events, religious beliefs
  11. Discuss factors that enhance social connectedness eg transport, technology, open spaces, meeting places, employment
  12. Identify characterisics of places considered highly liveable
  13. Examine a range of strategies used to enhance liveability
  14. Assess the role of governments, non-government organisations, communities and individuals in enhancing liveability
  15. Propose strategies to improve the liveability of a place in Australia