Year 7 History
The ancient world The Year 7 curriculum provides a study of history from the time of the earliest human communities to the end of the ancient period, approximately 60 000 BC (BCE) – c.650 AD (CE). It was a period defined by the development of cultural …
Year 7 | History | Humanities and Social Sciences | F-10 curriculum
Year 8 History
The ancient to the modern world The Year 8 curriculum provides a study of history from the end of the ancient period to the beginning of the modern period, c.650– 1750 AD (CE). This was when major civilisations around the world came into contact with …
Year 8 | History | Humanities and Social Sciences | F-10 curriculum
Year 9 History
The making of the modern world The Year 9 curriculum provides a study of the history of the making of the modern world from 1750 to 1918. It was a period of industrialisation and rapid change in the ways people lived, worked and thought. It was an era …
Year 9 | History | Humanities and Social Sciences | F-10 curriculum
Year 10 History
The modern world and Australia The Year 10 curriculum provides a study of the history of the modern world and Australia from 1918 to the present, with an emphasis on Australia in its global context. The twentieth century became a critical period in Australia’s …
Year 10 | History | Humanities and Social Sciences | F-10 curriculum
Structure History
The Australian Curriculum: History is organised into two interrelated strands: historical knowledge and understanding and historical inquiry and skills. Historical knowledge and understanding strand This strand includes personal, family, local, state …
Structure | History | Humanities and Social Sciences | F-10 curriculum
Rationale History
History is a disciplined process of inquiry into the past that develops students’ curiosity and imagination. Awareness of history is an essential characteristic of any society, and historical knowledge is fundamental to understanding ourselves and others. …
Rationale | History | Humanities and Social Sciences | F-10 curriculum
Aims History
The Australian Curriculum: History aims to ensure that students develop: interest in, and enjoyment of, historical study for lifelong learning and work, including their capacity and willingness to be informed and active citizens knowledge, understanding …
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Achievement Standard History Year 7
By the end of Year 7, students suggest reasons for change and continuity over time. They describe the effects of change on societies, individuals and groups. They describe events and developments from the perspective of different people who lived at the …
Achievement Standard | Achievement Standards | Year 7 | History | Humanities and Social Sciences | F-10 curriculum
Achievement Standard History Year 10
By the end of Year 10, students refer to key events, the actions of individuals and groups, and beliefs and values to explain patterns of change and continuity over time. They analyse the causes and effects of events and developments and explain their …
Achievement Standard | Achievement Standards | Year 10 | History | Humanities and Social Sciences | F-10 curriculum
ACDSEH037
Contacts and conflicts within and/or with other societies, resulting in developments such as the expansion of trade, colonisation and war (such as the Peloponnesian and Persian wars)
Elaborations ScOT Terms
ACDSEH037 | Content Descriptions | Year 7 | History | Humanities and Social Sciences | F-10 curriculum
ACDSEH048
Viking conquests and relationships with subject peoples, including the perspectives of monks, changes in the way of life of the English, and the Norman invasion
Elaborations ScOT Terms
ACDSEH048 | Content Descriptions | Year 8 | History | Humanities and Social Sciences | F-10 curriculum
ACDSEH141
The significance of ONE key event that involved the Asian society and European power(s), including different perspectives of the event at the time
Elaborations ScOT Terms
ACDSEH141 | Content Descriptions | Year 9 | History | Humanities and Social Sciences | F-10 curriculum
ACHHS172
Identify and analyse the perspectives of people from the past
Elaborations ScOT Terms
ACHHS172 | Content Descriptions | Year 9 | History | Humanities and Social Sciences | F-10 curriculum
ACHHS190
Identify and analyse the perspectives of people from the past
Elaborations ScOT Terms
ACHHS190 | Content Descriptions | Year 10 | History | Humanities and Social Sciences | F-10 curriculum
Elaboration ACDSEH037
explaining the nature of contact with other societies (for example, the commodities that formed the trade with Egypt, Greek colonisation of the Mediterranean) and conflict (for example, the Persian Wars and the Battle of Salamis, the empire of Alexander …
Elaboration | ACDSEH037 | Content Descriptions | Year 7 | History | Humanities and Social Sciences | F-10 curriculum
Elaboration ACDSEH040
describing the furthest extent of the Roman Empire and the influence of foreign cults on Roman religious beliefs and practices (for example, the Pantheon of Gods (Greece), Isis (Egypt) and Mithras (Persia))
Elaboration | ACDSEH040 | Content Descriptions | Year 7 | History | Humanities and Social Sciences | F-10 curriculum
Elaboration ACDSEH046
examining the extent of Indian contact with other societies such as the Persians under Cyrus, the Macedonians under Alexander; the extensive trade with the Romans and Chinese; the material remains of the Mauryan Empire such as the Pillars of Ashoka and …
Elaboration | ACDSEH046 | Content Descriptions | Year 7 | History | Humanities and Social Sciences | F-10 curriculum
Elaboration (2) ACHHS209
differentiating between primary sources (those from the time of the event/person/site being investigated) and secondary sources (those that represent later interpretations)
Elaboration (2) | ACHHS209 | Content Descriptions | Year 7 | History | Humanities and Social Sciences | F-10 curriculum
Elaboration (1) ACHHS212
identifying the perspective in a historical source, such as the saying of Confucius, ‘women and underlings are especially difficult to handle’, and discussing the values and attitudes of the society that produced it
Elaboration (1) | ACHHS212 | Content Descriptions | Year 7 | History | Humanities and Social Sciences | F-10 curriculum
Elaboration ACDSEH070
explaining reactions to the Black Death (for example, the emergence of flagellants – those who would whip themselves to be free of sin – and the persecution of Jewish people)
Elaboration | ACDSEH070 | Content Descriptions | Year 8 | History | Humanities and Social Sciences | F-10 curriculum