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

ACHASSK170

The nature of the sources for ancient Australia and what they reveal about Australia’s past in the ancient period, such as the use of resources

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ACHASSK170 | Content Descriptions | Year 7 | HASS | Humanities and Social Sciences | F-10 curriculum

ACHASSK182

Classification of environmental resources and the forms that water takes as a resource

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ACHASSK182 | Content Descriptions | Year 7 | HASS | Humanities and Social Sciences | F-10 curriculum

ACHASSK184

The quantity and variability of Australia’s water resources compared with other continents

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ACHASSK184 | Content Descriptions | Year 7 | HASS | Humanities and Social Sciences | F-10 curriculum

Elaboration (1) ACHASSK170

generating a range of questions to investigate a source (for example, a shell midden in ancient Australia – where it was found, how long it was used for, what it reveals about technology and the use of environmental resources)

Elaboration (1) | ACHASSK170 | Content Descriptions | Year 7 | HASS | Humanities and Social Sciences | F-10 curriculum

Elaboration (3) ACHASSK172

describing the importance of the River Tiber to ancient Roman society and the methods Romans used to manage resources (for example, the water supply through aqueducts and plumbing systems)

Elaboration (3) | ACHASSK172 | Content Descriptions | Year 7 | HASS | Humanities and Social Sciences | F-10 curriculum

Elaboration ACHASSK182

classifying resources into renewable, non-renewable and finite/infinite resources, and investigating examples of each type and how they affect environmental sustainability

Elaboration | ACHASSK182 | Content Descriptions | Year 7 | HASS | Humanities and Social Sciences | F-10 curriculum

Elaboration ACHASSK185

investigating the causes of water scarcity, for example, an absolute shortage of water (physical), inadequate development of water resources (economic or political), or the ways water is used

Elaboration | ACHASSK185 | Content Descriptions | Year 7 | HASS | Humanities and Social Sciences | F-10 curriculum