Curriculum and Standards Framework II
Learning Outcomes that relate to Fire
Science
Level 3 Biological Science – Living together: past, present and future
3.1 Describe environmental factors that affect the survival of living things.
Fire Education - examine the way in which fire affects the survival of living things.
Level 4 Biological science – Living together: past, present and future
4.1 Identify relationships between living things which help them survive in their habitat.
Fire Education - examine the way in which fire affects the survival of living things.
Level 4 Earth and space sciences – The changing Earth
4.1 Relate the occurrence of natural events to atmospheric changes and movements of the Earth’s crust and mantle.
Fire Education – describe the way scientists use indicators to predict bushfires.
Level 5 Biological science – Living together: past, present and future
5.2 Describe interactions between living things and between living things and their non-living surroundings.
Fire Education - describe the effect of change (i.e. bushfires) in the environment on interactions in an ecosystem.
Studies Of Society and Environment
Level 1 Family and neighbourhood
1.2 Explain why families and other groups have rules, and how these rules are applied.
1.3 Illustrate how people use and care for familiar environments.
Fire Education - The use of fire (campfires) in parks and forests, during total fire bans and during the fire danger period.
Level 4 Geography
4.3 Analyse different views about the use and care of Australian places.
Fire Education – the use of fire and its effect on the environment.
Level 4 Economy and society
4.2 Explain how and why local rules and laws are made and changed.
Fire Education - The use of fire (campfires) in parks and forests, during total fire bans and during the fire danger period.
Level 5 Geography
5.2 Explain how natural processes and human activities change environments.
Fire Education - Describe how human activities, such as the use of fire by humans (both intentional and accidental) which change environments.
5.4 Develop a plan to address impacts of change.
Fire Education - Describe how environmental change affects people and places – describe how changes to the environment following fire affects people and places using case studies of the 1939 bushfires and 1983 Ash Wednesday fires.
Level 6 Geography
6.4 Develop a comprehensive strategy to resolve an issue related to the use and management of a natural or human environment.
Fire Education - Evaluate the use of prescribed fire as an issue in the management of the natural environment. Investigate a ‘let burn’ approach in fighting bushfires as an issue in the management of the natural environment.
Level 6 Economy and society
6.3 Analyse vocational pathways and education and training requirements to develop possible career paths and work opportunities.
Fire Education - Discuss the roles that firefighters have both as firefighters and in other areas of their work i.e. forest or park ranger). Discuss requirements for working as a firefighter with DSE, CFA or MFESB, and the qualifications required to perform these duties.
VCE - Geography
Unit 1: Place and Change
Area of Study 2 – Changes in Places
- Focuses on the dynamic nature of places and the relative contribution of the agent of change. Includes natural and human process that alter places and looks at prediction of how change may occur and the impact of change on places. For example, study the topic of bushfires as agents of change. Investigate the impact of bushfires (a natural process) and the use of fire to manage parks and forests (a human process)
Unit 4: Global Perspectives
Area of Study 1 – Global Phenomena
- Examines process primarily responsible for generating global phenomena. This includes major natural or human processes which affect significant parts of the world. E.g. The study of bushfires as a global phenomena (examine the most fire prone areas of the world; Australia, California and southern France). The effect of smoke from the Indonesian fires.
Area of Study 2 – Global Responses
- The way in which people and organisations respond to the regional and global impacts of phenomena generated by natural process and human activity. E.g. Studies the way in which people respond to bushfires in the short and long term (community planning to deal with bushfires, response during bushfires from individuals, government and emergency agencies, media etc).
VCE - Environmental Science
Unit 1: The Environment
Area of Study 2 - Environmental Change
- Natural random environmental changes. For example the study of bushfires as a random environmental change
- Characteristics and distribution, causes and effects of human induced environmental change. For example, the effect of bushfires on the environment and the use of fire to manage parks and forests.
- Human induced change that contribute to the conservation and remediation of the environment. For example the use of fire to manage parks and forests.
VCE- Biology
Unit 1: Organisms in their Environment
Area of Study 2 – Changes in Ecosystem
- Irregular environmental change. For example, the study of bushfires as an irregular environmental change.
- Effect of short-term, irregular and long term environmental change. For example the effects of various fire regimes.
- Plant and animal adaptations to environmental change. For example looking at the adaptations in response to various fire regimes.
- Recent and ancient human-induced environmental change. For example the use of fire by indigenous people compared to the current use of fire to manage parks and forests.
VCE - Outdoor and Environmental Studies
Unit 1: Understanding nature
Area of Study – Natural Environments
- Provides an introduction to the characteristics of natural environments and the ways in which they function. Investigates different types of natural environments, the interrelationships within them and changes that occur in them. Eg. Look at the types and characteristics of natural environments and the ways in which different environments respond to and are adapted to fire. Investigate the effects of fire on natural environments and on people in natural environments and the way in which people respond to bushfires in the short and long term (community planning to deal with bushfires, response during bushfires from individuals, government and emergency agencies, media etc).
Area of Study – Impact on nature
- Focuses on both natural and human-induced changes on components of the environment and analyses policy and procedures for minimising human impact on natural environments. Eg. Studying the impact of wildfire (natural) in the environment and the use of fire as a management tool (human-induced). Looking at bushfire causes and the procedures and regulations that help minimise their occurrence.
Area of Study 1 - Changing perceptions of outdoor environments
- Analyses how particular perceptions and relationships have influenced an outdoor environment. Eg. Examining relationships with the land as expressed by indigenous cultures and their use of fire and its affect on the environment.
Area of Study 2 - Contemporary views of outdoor environments
- Explain the evolution of human-nature relationships (focussing on the current state) and their impact on the contemporary outdoor environment. Eg looking at changes in the environment as a result of fire practices, the impact of previous wildfire events and the contemporary use of fire to meet management objectives.
Area of study – Interacting with outdoor environments
- Evaluates practices and strategies that allow the sustainable interaction of humans and outdoor environments. Eg. Examining the potential impact of fire on the quality of natural environments and loss of biodiversity.
Area of study - Sustaining outdoor environments
- Focuses on the sustainability of natural environments and evaluates the processes of decision making which affects the use and sustainability of outdoor environments. Eg. A study of the different fire management objectives and how they are considered in approaches to managing and maintaining natural environments.