VCE Outdoor and Environmental studies
  • Unit 1
    • Unit 1 Outcome 1 >
      • The use and meanings of environmental terms
      • Types of outdoor environments
      • Motivations for seeking outdoor experiences
      • Responses to nature
      • Risk
    • Unit 1 Outcome 2 >
      • Experiencing outdoor environments
      • Ways of knowing outdoor environments
      • Factors that affect access to outdoor environments
      • Technologies and their effects on outdoor experiences.
      • Unit 1 Revision
  • Unit 2
    • Unit 2 Outcome 1 >
      • Characteristics of outdoor environments
      • Recreational users' understandings of outdoor environments
      • Scientific understandings of outdoor environments
      • Land managers' understandings.
      • Indigenous, artistic and historical understandings
      • Unit 2 Outcome 1 Revision
    • Unit 2 Outcome 2 >
      • Recreational, Commercial and Conservational impacts on outdoor environments
      • Codes of conduct
      • Indirect and direct impacts of technnologies
      • Impacts of urbanisation and changing human lifestyles
      • Unit 2 Outcome 2 Revision
  • Unit 3
    • Unit 3 Outcome 1 >
      • Australian outdoor environments before humans
      • Indigenous relationships
      • Early European settlers relationships
      • Increasing population
      • Industrialisation
      • Nation building
      • Foundation and role of environmental movements
      • Grampians camp
      • Unit 3 Outcome 1 Revision
    • Unit 3 Outcome 2 >
      • Contemporary relationships with outdoor environments
      • Technology (Factors effecting contemporary relationships)
      • Commercialisation (Factors effecting contemporary relationships)
      • Portrayals of the outdoors in the media, music, art, writing and advertisements
      • Social responses to risk taking
      • Social and political discourses about contemporary environmental issues
      • Unit 3 Outcome 2 Revision
      • Unit 3 revision
  • Unit 4
    • Unit 4 Outcome 1 >
      • Sustainability and sustainable development
      • Indicators of healthy outdoor enviroments
      • Contemporary State of the Environment
      • The importance of healthy outdoor environments for individual wellbeing, and for the future of society
      • Impact on society and environments of significant environmental threats
    • Unit 4 Outcome 2 >
      • Conflicts of interest between people involved in uses of outdoor environments. >
        • Franklin river campaign
        • Alpine cattle grazing
        • River red gum National Parks conflict (Barmah forest conflict)
      • Management strategies and policies for sustainable outdoor environments
      • Acts and Conventions related to sustainable outdoor environments
      • Action taken to sustain healthy outdoor environments
      • Unit 4 revision
Area of Study 1: Motivations for outdoor experiences

In this area of study, students examine motivations for and responses to nature and outdoor experiences. They investigate a range of contemporary uses and meanings of the term ‘nature’, and examine a variety of different types of outdoor environments. Students are introduced to a cultural perspective on the ways humans relate to nature. They evaluate how their personal responses are influenced by media portrayals of outdoor environments and perceptions of risk in outdoor experiences. Students learn to plan for and engage in safe participation in outdoor experiences and develop practical skills related to minimal impact travelling and living. Students use these experiences as the basis for reflection and analysis.

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