Substrand: "6.1 Solomon Islands and the World" (30 periods)

Solomon Islands is located in the south – west Pacific region. It is an island country. These features help to describe and distinguish landscape; availability of resources represent spatial patterns; how communities use a place reflects their values. The people adapt to their landscapes; resource competition can cause conflict about landscape use; resource uses can be measured: decisions on resource uses affect the well-being of future generations; sustainable use of landscapes require cooperation.

Learner's should:

Learner's should:

Learner's should:

6.1.1 understand that the location of Solomon Islands in a region of great resource diversity gives it a significant relationship with the wider world (u)

6.1.1.1 identify an environmental issue of national and regional significance

6.1.2 interpret features on maps and globes (s)

6.1.2.1 identify different ways people have adapted to the physical environment in two different nations in the Pacific region

6.1.3 know the devices of maps (scales, symbols, keys ,direction marks, colour schemes) and how to extract information from maps (s/k)

6.1.3.1 use maps of the region and world to locate Solomon Islands in terms of global reference points, (e.g. hemispheres, lines of latitude and longitude, mountains and oceans)
6.1.3.2 use the range of devices of maps to retrieve relevant information about environments

6.1.4 appreciate how places reflect the interaction of people in the past (v)

6.1.4.1 give samples of how natural, cultural, religious, historical, economical and political factors can influence people about resource use