Accessibility for Liveable Communities

This lesson is designed to build students’ competencies in the following skills:

• creative thinking
• communication
• community engagement
• empathy
• ethical understanding
• problem-solving

Australian Curriculum (v9.0) content description: 

Year 7 Geography

• The location and distribution of services and facilities, and implications for liveability of places (AC9HG7K06)
• Strategies used to enhance the liveability of a place, including for young people, the aged or those with disability, drawing on studies such as those from Australia or Europe (AC9HG7K08)

Relevant parts of Year 7 achievement standards: Students can describe the features of a distribution and a response or strategy to address a geographical phenomenon or challenge. They draw conclusions about the impact of the geographical phenomenon or challenge on people, places, and environments, and develop a strategy for action.

NSW Syllabus outcomes:

• GE4-2 describes processes and influences that form and transform places and environments
• GE4-3 explains how interactions and connections between people, places and environments result in change

General capabilities: Critical and Creative Thinking, Ethical Understanding, Personal and Social Capability 

Cross-curriculum priority: Sustainability 

Level of teacher scaffolding: Medium - The teacher will need to scaffold theory, and facilitate discussions and activities to help students understand and apply knowledge.

UN SDG 11: Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable

• Target 11.3: By 2030, enhance inclusive and sustainable urbanisation and capacity for participatory, integrated and sustainable human settlement planning and management in all countries.

• Accessibility Audit Template
• Case Studies: Impact of accessibility on liveability
• Student access to devices to watch videos and use Google Maps
• Student Worksheet
• Whiteboard and whiteboard markers

This is an original Cool+ lesson.

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