ACDSEH068
The way Polynesian societies used environmental resources (sustainably and unsustainably), including the extinction of the moa in New Zealand, the use of religious/supernatural threats to conserve resources, and the exploitation of Easter Island’s palm …
Elaborations ScOT Terms
ACDSEH068 | Content Descriptions | Year 8 | History | Humanities and Social Sciences | F-10 curriculum
ACDSEH128
Responses of governments, including the Australian Government, and international organisations to environmental threats since the 1960s, including deforestation and climate change
Elaborations ScOT Terms
ACDSEH128 | Content Descriptions | Year 10 | History | Humanities and Social Sciences | F-10 curriculum
ACDSEH127
Significant events and campaigns that contributed to popular awareness of environmental issues, such as the campaign to prevent the damming of Australia’s Gordon River, the nuclear accident at Chernobyl and the Jabiluka mine controversy in 1998
Elaborations ScOT Terms
ACDSEH127 | Content Descriptions | Year 10 | History | Humanities and Social Sciences | F-10 curriculum
ACDSEH125
The intensification of environmental effects in the twentieth century as a result of population increase, urbanisation, increasing industrial production and trade
Elaborations ScOT Terms
ACDSEH125 | Content Descriptions | Year 10 | History | Humanities and Social Sciences | F-10 curriculum
ACDSEH028
The background to environmental awareness, including the nineteenth century National Parks movement in America and Australia
Elaborations ScOT Terms
ACDSEH028 | Content Descriptions | Year 10 | History | Humanities and Social Sciences | F-10 curriculum
Elaboration (4) ACDSEH096
explaining the treatment of people of German descent during the war (for example, their classification as ‘enemy aliens’ and placement in internment camps, as well as their depiction in government propaganda)
Elaboration (4) | ACDSEH096 | Content Descriptions | Year 9 | History | Humanities and Social Sciences | F-10 curriculum
Elaboration ACDSEH039
investigating significant beliefs associated with daily life (for example, the evidence of household religion) and practices (for example, the use of public amenities such as baths, and the forms of entertainment in theatres and amphitheatres)
Elaboration | ACDSEH039 | Content Descriptions | Year 7 | History | Humanities and Social Sciences | F-10 curriculum
Elaboration (1) ACDSEH143
investigating the legacy of children’s experiences in ‘care’ (their placement in orphanages, Children’s Homes, foster care and other forms of out-of-home care), and the significance of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (1990)
Elaboration (1) | ACDSEH143 | Content Descriptions | Year 10 | History | Humanities and Social Sciences | F-10 curriculum
Elaboration ACDSEH128
explaining the responses of governments and organisations to environmental threats (for example, New Zealand’s anti-nuclear policy, the United States’ Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability Act 1980 (CERCLA), Australia’s first …
Elaboration | ACDSEH128 | Content Descriptions | Year 10 | History | Humanities and Social Sciences | F-10 curriculum
Elaboration ACDSEH127
investigating a range of environmental impacts (for example, the flooding of Lake Pedder in Tasmania, deforestation in Indonesia, the decline of the Aral Sea, the Exxon Valdez oil spill, the whaling industry)
Elaboration | ACDSEH127 | Content Descriptions | Year 10 | History | Humanities and Social Sciences | F-10 curriculum
Elaboration (1) ACDSEH068
explaining the significance of Rahui as a way of prohibiting the collection of resources, to ensure their sustainability
Elaboration (1) | ACDSEH068 | Content Descriptions | Year 8 | History | Humanities and Social Sciences | F-10 curriculum
Elaboration (1) ACDSEH031
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) | ACDSEH031 | Content Descriptions | Year 7 | History | Humanities and Social Sciences | F-10 curriculum
Elaboration ACDSEH125
investigating the impact of early texts that warned about environmental change (for example, Silent Spring by Rachel Carson, 1962; Don’t it make you want to go home by Joe South, 1970; Mother Earth News magazine in 1970; Mercy mercy me (the ecology) lyrics …
Elaboration | ACDSEH125 | Content Descriptions | Year 10 | History | Humanities and Social Sciences | F-10 curriculum