Key Features

• Provides a wide range of information and supporting activities which enhance their understanding of "human behaviour and interaction in social, cultural, environmental, economic and political contexts" (ACARA, Australian Curriculum, Humanities and Social Sciences)
• Focuses on both personal and global interactions, and assists students to understand local and global future challenges and their role in meeting those challenges.
• Looks at global issues explained in an Australian context
• Introduces a range of geographical concepts, each of which has contributed in some way to shape the human and natural world. Related content in Civics and Citizenship and Economics and Business is included
• Presented in both textual and visual form
• Enables learners to fully appreciate the information and gives insights into the interactions between people and their environment
• Includes information reports, tables, maps, illustrations, photographs, breakout boxes and lists
• Encourages students to relate the content to their own lives and communities, and to analyse what they have learnt
• Answers are included as a black-and-white booklet in the middle of the book
• Australian Curriculum alignment grid is provided at the back of the book