Sustainable Agriculture

Australian Curriculum (v9.0) content description: Year 9 Geography

The environmental, economic and technological factors that impact agricultural productivity in Australia and a country in Asia (AC9HG9K03)

Year 9 Achievement Standard

By the end of Year 9, students explain how peoples’ activities or environmental processes change the characteristics of places. They explain the effects of human activity on environments, and the effects of environments on human activity. They explain the features of biomes’ distribution and identify implications for environments. They analyse the interconnections between people and places and environments. They identify and explain how these interconnections influence people, and change places and environments.

Want to offer your class a bit more? Here are some presentations, lessons and factsheets that can be used with this video

• Cool+ presentation: How does agriculture impact our environment?
• Cool+ Presentation: Soil and agriculture
• Cool.org Factsheet: Impact of Agriculture