Year 4 HASS

How people, places and environments interact, past and present The Year 4 curriculum focuses on interactions between people, places and environments over time and space and the effects of these interactions. Students gain opportunities to expand their …

Year 4 | HASS | Humanities and Social Sciences | F-10 curriculum

Year 7 HASS

Sustainable pasts, present, futures The Year 7 curriculum deepens discipline-specific knowledge, understandings and skills with opportunities for integration across the sub-strands. Students study ancient societies of the East and West, how they are …

Year 7 | HASS | Humanities and Social Sciences | F-10 curriculum

Year 10 Geography

There are two units of study in the Year 10 curriculum for Geography: ‘Environmental change and management’ and ‘Geographies of human wellbeing’. ‘Environmental change and management’ focuses on investigating environmental geography through an in-depth …

Year 10 | Geography | Humanities and Social Sciences | F-10 curriculum

Rationale Geography

In a world of increasing global integration and international mobility, it is critical to the wellbeing and sustainability of the environment and society that young Australians develop a holistic understanding of the world. This requires deep knowledge …

Rationale | Geography | Humanities and Social Sciences | F-10 curriculum

Rationale HASS

In a world that is increasingly culturally diverse and dynamically interconnected, it is important that students come to understand their world, past and present, and develop a capacity to respond to challenges, now and in the future, in innovative, informed, …

Rationale | HASS | Humanities and Social Sciences | F-10 curriculum

Aims HASS

The F–6/7 Australian Curriculum for Humanities and Social Sciences aims to ensure that students develop: a sense of wonder, curiosity and respect about places, people, cultures and systems throughout the world, past and present, and an interest in and …

Aims | HASS | Humanities and Social Sciences | F-10 curriculum

Structure HASS

The Australian Curriculum: Humanities and Social Sciences may be implemented as a combined F–6 program or as an F–7 program. The F–6/7 curriculum is organised into two interrelated strands: knowledge and understanding and inquiry and skills. Knowledge …

Structure | HASS | Humanities and Social Sciences | F-10 curriculum

Structure Geography

The Australian Curriculum: Geography is organised in two related strands: geographical knowledge and understanding, and geographical inquiry and skills. Geographical knowledge and understanding strand Geographical knowledge refers to the facts, generalisations, …

Structure | Geography | Humanities and Social Sciences | F-10 curriculum

Rationale Economics and Business

As mass global flows of people, resources, finances and information produce social, economic, political and environmental complexities and challenges, Australia needs enterprising individuals who can make informed decisions and actively participate …

Rationale | Economics and Business | Humanities and Social Sciences | F-10 curriculum

ACHASSK089

The custodial responsibility Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples have for Country/Place, and how this influences views about sustainability

Elaborations ScOT Terms

ACHASSK089 | Content Descriptions | Year 4 | HASS | Humanities and Social Sciences | F-10 curriculum

ACOKFH024

developments in technology, public health, longevity and standard of living during the twentieth century, and concern for the environment and sustainability

ScOT Terms

ACOKFH024 | Content Descriptions | Year 10 | History | Humanities and Social Sciences | F-10 curriculum

ACDSEH126

The growth and influence of the environment movement within Australia and overseas, and developments in ideas about the environment including the concept of ‘sustainability’

Elaborations ScOT Terms

ACDSEH126 | Content Descriptions | Year 10 | History | Humanities and Social Sciences | F-10 curriculum

ACHGK070

Human-induced environmental changes that challenge sustainability

Elaborations ScOT Terms

ACHGK070 | Content Descriptions | Year 10 | Geography | Humanities and Social Sciences | F-10 curriculum

Elaboration (1) ACHASSI052

developing inquiring questions as they investigate (for example, ‘Why there?’ questions about location; ‘What might happen?’ questions about future consequences of natural processes or people’s actions in places; and ‘What ought to happen?’ questions …

Elaboration (1) | ACHASSI052 | Content Descriptions | Year 3 | HASS | Humanities and Social Sciences | F-10 curriculum

Elaboration (3) ACHASSI082

using accurate and subject-appropriate terms when speaking, writing and illustrating, for example, using historical terms (such as ‘exploration’, ‘navigation’, ‘trade’, penal’, ‘transportation’, ‘contact’, ‘frontier conflict’, 'colonisation’), using geographical …

Elaboration (3) | ACHASSI082 | Content Descriptions | Year 4 | HASS | Humanities and Social Sciences | F-10 curriculum

Elaboration (1) ACHASSK112

exploring the extent of change in the local environment over time (for example, through vegetation clearance, fencing, urban development, drainage, irrigation, farming, forest plantations or mining), and evaluating the positive and negative effects of …

Elaboration (1) | ACHASSK112 | Content Descriptions | Year 5 | HASS | Humanities and Social Sciences | F-10 curriculum

Elaboration (4) ACHASSI127

critiquing points of view about a sustainability issue (for example, considering producers’ and consumers’ views on the sustainable use of resources)

Elaboration (4) | ACHASSI127 | Content Descriptions | Year 6 | HASS | Humanities and Social Sciences | F-10 curriculum

Elaboration (1) ACHASSI128

using graphic organisers, maps and concept maps to identify patterns (for example, patterns of settlement in regional agricultural areas), trends (for example, changes in Australian immigration statistics) and cause-effect relationships (for example, …

Elaboration (1) | ACHASSI128 | Content Descriptions | Year 6 | HASS | Humanities and Social Sciences | F-10 curriculum

Elaboration (1) ACHASSK140

investigating sustainability of the environments in which many indigenous peoples have lived sustainably over time

Elaboration (1) | ACHASSK140 | Content Descriptions | Year 6 | HASS | Humanities and Social Sciences | F-10 curriculum

Elaboration ACHASSK148

identifying the obligations people may consider they have as global citizens (for example, an awareness of human rights issues, concern for the environment and sustainability, being active and informed about global issues)

Elaboration | ACHASSK148 | Content Descriptions | Year 6 | HASS | Humanities and Social Sciences | F-10 curriculum