ACOKFH023
the nature of the Cold War and Australia’s involvement in Cold War and post-Cold War conflicts (Korea, Vietnam, The Gulf Wars, Afghanistan), including the rising influence of Asian nations since the end of the Cold War
ScOT Terms
ACOKFH023 | 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
ACDSEH023
The origins and significance of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, including Australia’s involvement in the development of the declaration
Elaborations ScOT Terms
ACDSEH023 | Content Descriptions | Year 10 | 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 ACDSEH034
explaining the nature of contact with other societies (for example, trade with Cyprus, Crete and Greece); and conflict (for example, the Battle of Kadesh in the New Kingdom that concluded with Ramses II’s peace treaty with the Hittites)
Elaboration | ACDSEH034 | Content Descriptions | Year 7 | History | Humanities and Social Sciences | F-10 curriculum
ACDSEH145
The impact of changing government policies on Australia’s migration patterns, including abolition of the White Australia Policy, ‘Populate or Perish’
Elaborations ScOT Terms
ACDSEH145 | Content Descriptions | Year 10 | History | Humanities and Social Sciences | F-10 curriculum
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
Elaboration ACDSEH126
recognising the historic impact of the pictures of Earth taken during the Apollo 8 mission and how they influenced people’s view of the world
Elaboration | ACDSEH126 | Content Descriptions | Year 10 | History | Humanities and Social Sciences | F-10 curriculum
Elaboration ACDSEH087
explaining responses to particular ideas (for example, how religious groups responded to ideas in Charles Darwin’s 1859 book On the Origin of Species or how workers responded to the idea of capitalism or socialism)
Elaboration | ACDSEH087 | Content Descriptions | Year 9 | 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 ACDSEH043
explaining the rise of imperial China (for example, the use of chariot warfare and the adoption of mass infantry armies, the building of the first phase of the Great Wall of China, military strategies as codified in Sun Tzu’s The Art of War)
Elaboration | ACDSEH043 | Content Descriptions | Year 7 | History | Humanities and Social Sciences | F-10 curriculum
Elaboration (1) ACDSEH063
explaining reasons for Japan’s closure to foreigners under the Tokugawa Shogunate and the impact of US Commodore Perry’s visit in 1853
Elaboration (1) | ACDSEH063 | Content Descriptions | Year 8 | History | Humanities and Social Sciences | F-10 curriculum
Elaboration (1) ACDSEH096
investigating examples of the war’s impact on Australia’s economy and society (for example, the development of the steel industry in Newcastle and the implementation of the War Precautions Act)
Elaboration (1) | ACDSEH096 | Content Descriptions | Year 9 | History | Humanities and Social Sciences | F-10 curriculum
Elaboration ACDSEH050
describing the features of castles and churches of the period (for example, Warwick Castle in England and Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris) as examples of the Church’s power in terms of its control of wealth and labour
Elaboration | ACDSEH050 | Content Descriptions | Year 8 | History | Humanities and Social Sciences | F-10 curriculum
Elaboration ACDSEH077
outlining Genghis Khan’s use of decimal organisation in his army and his policies for governing his empire (for example, codifying laws, banning the killing of animals in the breeding season, supporting religious freedom and expanding trade)
Elaboration | ACDSEH077 | Content Descriptions | Year 8 | History | Humanities and Social Sciences | F-10 curriculum
Elaboration ACHHS165
discussing the contestability of particular historical terms such as 'settlement', 'invasion' and 'colonisation' in the context of Australia’s history
Elaboration | ACHHS165 | Content Descriptions | Year 9 | History | Humanities and Social Sciences | F-10 curriculum
Elaboration ACDSEH110
evaluating the impact of World War II on the emergence of the United States as a major world power and on Australia’s alliance with the US (for example, the threat of Japan)
Elaboration | ACDSEH110 | Content Descriptions | Year 10 | History | Humanities and Social Sciences | F-10 curriculum
Elaboration (1) ACHHS189
discussing the reliability and usefulness of Martin Luther King’s 1963 ‘I Have A Dream’ speech as a source to assist in understanding the aims and motivations of the US Civil Rights movement
Elaboration (1) | ACHHS189 | Content Descriptions | Year 10 | History | Humanities and Social Sciences | F-10 curriculum