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TERM 4
Learning objective: Identify factors that influence a place’s liveability

Steps to success:
1. Teacher-directed
Success criteria: 2. List, write, or draw
3. View and respond
• Define liveability
• Identify what makes Perth a highly liveable
4. Reflection
city
• Identify 4 factors that influence liveability

• Compare the liveability of Perth to another

city
• Identify more than 4 factors that influence Vocabulary:
liveability liveability
Liveability is a measure of what a place is
like to live in.
List, write, or draw

1. What makes Perth a good city to live in?

2. What could be improved in Perth to make it a better city
to live in?

Think of another city you have been to or lived in (or know

about).
3. In what ways is that city better than Perth to live in?
4. In what ways is Perth a better city to live in?
 What do you think are the
differences between the most

2021 liveable and non-liveable cities on

earth? Do you notice any patterns?
Write them down in your books.
 The Economist’s Global Liveability
Each year, a number of Index measures the following five
different companies review
the liveability of cities around
liveability factors:
the world in terms of their
objective factors, ranking
• stability (safety)
them from the most to the
least liveable. The most well-
• health care
known of these surveys is
conducted by an organisation
• culture and environment
called the Economist
Intelligence Unit (EIU), which
• education
publishes annual list of
rankings.
• infrastructure
Write them down in your books!
 View and respond
• Watch the two video
clips about the 2021
Liveability Index

• Write a list of factors

that influence
liveability
 View and respond
• Watch the two video
clips about the 2021
Liveability Index

• Write a list of factors

that influence
liveability
Environmental quality
The quality of air, water and parklands in cities is Why is environmental quality
an important part of liveability for both health important for the liveability of a
and aesthetic (beauty) reasons. city?

New Delhi, India Copenhagen, Denmark

Environmental quality Identify the human causes of air pollution
Air pollution
Environmental quality Study the graph and answer the following questions
Air pollution in pairs:
1. Describe the difference in the amount of
greenhouse gases released per person between
Greenhouse gas emissions from different forms of transport
1 person driving a 4WD and 4 people sharing a
4WD.
2. Which modes of transport are the most
environmentally friendly?
3. What could governments do to encourage more
people to use environmentally friendly modes of
transport?
Environmental quality Describe the spatial distribution (spread) of
the most polluted cities in the world.
Why do you
think
pollution is an
issue in these
cities?
Infrastructure refers to the services and facilities of a place.
The quality (efficiency and reliability) of a city’s infrastructure make it
more or less liveable.

Examples of infrastructure:
• Roads
• Public transport
• Emergency services Rank these services and facilities in order of
• Post offices
importance.
• Water
• Sewerage
• Airports What other services / facilities are important for
• Housing liveability? Why?
• Electricity
• Telecommunications
 Compare these images of
Singapore and Dhaka
(Bangladesh).

• Describe and compare their

infrastructure. What
conclusions can you draw
about their infrastructure?
• Explain why Singapore ranks
more highly in infrastructure
and liveability compared to
Dhaka.

Discuss:
Is it possible to live in
a city and and not rely
on the use of any of
its infrastructure?
Learning objective: Describe the factors that make a city highly liveable

Steps to success:
1. Teacher-directed
Success criteria: 2. Paired-task
• Define objective and subjective
• Identify specific examples of liveability
factors to justify why Sydney is a highly
liveable city

• Write a TEEEL paragraph to explain why Sydney Vocabulary:

is considered a highly liveable city • liveability
• Investigate the liveability of another city using
Google Earth • subjective
• Survey your family about their opinion on the • objective
liveability of their neighbourhood
Liveability is a measure of what a place is
like to live in.
1. Complete the neighborhood liveability survey based on
the suburb you live in

2. Tally your scores

3. Calculate the class average

The factors that influence people’s ideas
on liveability can be measured in two
ways: by objective factors and subjective
factors.

Objective factors are things that can be

measured and expressed as numbers,
such as the cost of housing, the climate,
the number of hospitals and schools, the
availability of public transport, and the
level of crime.

Subjective factors are things that are

personal, emotional and spiritual, and that
cannot be easily measured or expressed
as numbers.
The Economist’s Global Liveability
Index measures the following five
liveability factors:
• stability (safety) Which of these factors are
• health care objective factors?
Which are subjective factors?
• culture and environment
• education
• infrastructure
The OECD (Organisation for Economic Co-Operation and Development) is another
organisation that publishes a regular report on liveability – The OECD Better Life Index.

• Housing conditions and spendings

• Household / individual income

• Earnings, job security, unemployment Which of these factors

• Quality of people’s social support network
are objective factors?
Which are subjective
• Levels of education reached by citizens
factors?
• Quality of your environment
• Involvement in the running of the country

• Access to healthcare / availability of doctors and hospitals

• How happy people are?

• Crime rates

• How many hours people work v. free time

Learning objective: Interpret climate graphs to draw conclusions about
the liveability of a place

Steps to success:
Success criteria: 1. List, write, OR draw
2. Teacher-directed
• Define climate
• Explain the link between climate and liveability
3. Independent task
• Compare the climate of two places
• Draw a climate graph for Esperance

• Draw a climate graph for a city of your choice Vocabulary:

• Write a TEEEL paragraph to explain why Perth’s • climate
climate makes it a highly liveable city • weather
List, write, or draw

Describe the weather on a

perfect day.
What is the
difference
between
WEATHER
and
CLIMATE?
The climate of a place has an important impact
on its liveability.
Is climate an
Different climates suit different people, but it is
generally agreed that the following factors objective or
increase the liveability of a place: subjective factor?
• mild temperatures without extremes of
Why?
heat or cold
• reliable rainfall Why is reliable rainfall relevant to liveability?
• low humidity
• little likelihood of weather-related disasters
(e.g. cyclones and floods)
Generally …
• Places nearer to the Equator
are warmer than places
closer to the poles. They
also tend to be wetter with
rainfall occurring
throughout the year.

• Places near or beside

oceans have milder climates
with fewer extremes than
places in the centre of large
land masses.

• Places at high altitude are

colder than places at sea
level. They are often wetter
as well.
Australia’s climate zones
Why do we live where we live?
What is the link between Australia’s climate zones and
population distribution?
Comparing climates – Climate Graphs

Using specific
data from the
Geographers graphs, explain
describe climates as: why Perth’s
climate is
1. 😀 Acceptable described as
2. 🙂 Tolerable tolerable, and
3. 😕 Uncomfortable Phnom Penh’s
4. Undesirable (in Cambodia)
5. 😣 Intolerable climate is
described as
intolerable?
Comparing climates – Climate Graphs

STEP 1: Location 1
• Describe the rainfall
(consistent or wet/dry
months)
• Describe the temperature
(even or hot/cold months)

STEP 2: Repeat for location

2

STEP 3: Point out obvious

differences
Independent task
HELP DESK
• Padlet: Video on
how to draw a
• Complete the climate graphs climate graph
worksheet

1. Research the yearly temperature and rainfall of a

city of your choice. Use the data to draw a climate
graph (on graph paper)
2. Write a TEEEL paragraph to explain why Perth’s
climate makes it a highly liveable city
INDEPENDENT REVIEW TASKs
1. Study these photographs of Vancouver (Canada) and Harare (Zimbabwe). Write a paragraph to explain which city you think is more
liveable. You must mention at least 2 factors of liveability (environment, climate, infrastructure, access to health care and education,
safety and stability). Support your answer with specific EVIDENCE from the images.

Harare

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