Linking with Human Society & Its Environment (HSIE) Key Learning Area

The HSIE K-6 Syllabus has "Environments" as one of its four strands, making environmental education a key feature of its framework. Ecological sustainability is one of a number of values and attitudes underpinning learning and teaching in HSIE. Part of the rationale of the syllabus states that the future wellbeing of human society and its environment "depends upon the quality of people's interactions with their cultural, social and physical environment as they strive to meet each other's needs".

• the variety of ways in which different societies respond to their environments
• environments past and present and the potential consequences of economic decisions
• global and Australian environments and how people manage these environments
• sustainable development the rights and obligations of individuals, social and business organisations and governments in their environmental interrelationships
• the interdependence between human and natural phenomena.