Stage 3 HSIE – Lessons 11-16 Geography Unit 1: Places Are Organised in Different Ways

Stage 3 HSIE – Geography Unit 1

Lessons 11–16 | Environmental Events & Cultural Knowledges

Take your Stage 3 Geography unit to completion with Lessons 11–16, designed as the extension to Lessons 1–10.

These lessons deepen students’ understanding of how people and agencies manage environmental events and explore how Aboriginal Cultural Knowledges and Practices care for Country.

Students investigate bushfires as a case study, research environmental events, propose management strategies, and analyse the role of agencies such as the NSW Rural Fire Service. The unit then shifts to Aboriginal Cultural obligations, cultural burning practices, and seasonal calendars, examining how these Knowledges are used to organise and manage Country sustainably.

What’s Included:

✔ 131 explicit, ready-to-teach PowerPoint slides

✔ Engaging student worksheets (with answer sheets)

✔ Assessment rubric aligned to outcomes

✔ Report comment bank

✔ Unit overview

✔ Scope and sequence

✔ PDF version of slides

Students will learn to:

• Research and explain how people and agencies manage environmental events

• Propose strategies to improve place management

• Explain Cultural obligations to Country

• Analyse how Cultural burning practices care for Country

• Research and compare Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander seasonal calendars

✨ Aligned to the 2024 NSW Geography Syllabus ✨

✨ Everything done for you – planning, teaching, assessing, and reporting

Perfect for teachers who have already purchased Lessons 1–10 and want to complete the full 16-lesson unit.