Area of Study 1. Outcome 1: Investigating outdoor environments
On completion of this unit you should be able to describe the characteristics of different outdoor environments and analyse a range of understandings of these environments, with reference to specific outdoor experiences. This will include the key knowledge and skills outlined below:
Key knowledge
On completion of this unit you should be able to describe the characteristics of different outdoor environments and analyse a range of understandings of these environments, with reference to specific outdoor experiences. This will include the key knowledge and skills outlined below:
Key knowledge
- characteristics of outdoor environments, including alpine, marine, coastal, wetlands, grassland, forest and arid • recreational users’ understandings of specific outdoor environments
- scientific understandings of specific outdoor environments, including:
– interrelationships between biotic and abiotic components
– effects of natural changes to environments on people and places such as day to night, seasons, tides, flood, drought, migration, succession, and climate change
– the effect fire (both wildfire and controlled burns) has on the environment - land managers’ understandings of specific outdoor environments, including the features that can be used to delineate one particular area from another such as landform, vegetation type, public and private land, types of parks and reserves, management zones
- artistic, Indigenous, and historical understandings of specific outdoor environments
- plan for and reflect upon a range of practical sustainable outdoor experiences and analyse relevant information collected
- describe, compare and contrast the characteristics of different outdoor environments
- analyse a range of understandings of the use of, and relationship to, outdoor environments
- analyse how land managers delineate outdoor areas