Key ideas
Through their learning in each subject or sub-strand, students develop knowledge and understanding relating to broader enduring ideas that underpin the Humanities and Social Sciences in the Australian Curriculum, which are represented in varying ways …
Key ideas | 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 1 HASS
How my world is different from the past and can change in the future The Year 1 curriculum provides a study of the recent past, the present and the near future within the context of the student’s own world. Students are given opportunities to explore …
Year 1 | 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
Year 6 HASS
Australia in the past and present and its connections with a diverse world The Year 6 curriculum focuses on the social, economic and political development of Australia as a nation, particularly after 1900, and Australia’s role within a diverse and interconnected …
Year 6 | 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
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
Geography Achievement Standard HASS Year 1
By the end of Year 1, students identify and describe the natural, managed and constructed features of places at a local scale and identify where features of places are located. They recognise that people describe the features of places differently. Students …
Geography Achievement Standard | Achievement Standards | Year 1 | HASS | Humanities and Social Sciences | F-10 curriculum
ACHASSK088
The importance of environments, including natural vegetation, to animals and people
Elaborations ScOT Terms
ACHASSK088 | Content Descriptions | Year 4 | HASS | Humanities and Social Sciences | F-10 curriculum
ACHASSK090
The use and management of natural resources and waste, and the different views on how to do this sustainably
Elaborations ScOT Terms
ACHASSK090 | Content Descriptions | Year 4 | HASS | Humanities and Social Sciences | F-10 curriculum
ACHASSK031
The natural, managed and constructed features of places, their location, how they change and how they can be cared for
Elaborations ScOT Terms
ACHASSK031 | Content Descriptions | Year 1 | HASS | Humanities and Social Sciences | F-10 curriculum
ACHASSK044
The history of a significant person, building, site and/or part of the natural environment in the local community and what it reveals about the past
Elaborations ScOT Terms
ACHASSK044 | Content Descriptions | Year 2 | HASS | Humanities and Social Sciences | F-10 curriculum
ACHASSK120
Types of resources (natural, human, capital) and the ways societies use them to satisfy the needs and wants of present and future generations
Elaborations ScOT Terms
ACHASSK120 | Content Descriptions | Year 5 | HASS | Humanities and Social Sciences | F-10 curriculum
ACHASSK066
The representation of Australia as states and territories and as Countries/Places of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples; and major places in Australia, both natural and human
Elaborations ScOT Terms
ACHASSK066 | Content Descriptions | Year 3 | HASS | Humanities and Social Sciences | F-10 curriculum
Elaboration (4) ACHASSK090
exploring the work of groups and organisations which manage natural resources and/or waste
Elaboration (4) | ACHASSK090 | Content Descriptions | Year 4 | HASS | Humanities and Social Sciences | F-10 curriculum
Elaboration (2) ACHGK061
identifying the differences between natural and agricultural ecosystems in flows of nutrients and water, and in biodiversity
Elaboration (2) | ACHGK061 | Content Descriptions | Year 9 | Geography | Humanities and Social Sciences | F-10 curriculum
Elaboration (2) ACHASSI006
identifying natural and constructed features of a place that have changed over time and those that have remained relatively unchanged
Elaboration (2) | ACHASSI006 | Content Descriptions | Foundation Year | HASS | Humanities and Social Sciences | F-10 curriculum
Elaboration (1) ACHASSK031
recounting Dreaming and Creation stories of Aboriginal Peoples and Torres Strait Islander Peoples that identify the natural features of a place
Elaboration (1) | ACHASSK031 | Content Descriptions | Year 1 | HASS | Humanities and Social Sciences | F-10 curriculum
Elaboration ACHASSI039
comparing places that differ over time or across location (for example, climate, natural environment, plants, animals, people’s home)
Elaboration | ACHASSI039 | Content Descriptions | Year 2 | HASS | Humanities and Social Sciences | F-10 curriculum
Elaboration ACHASSK088
identifying the main types of vegetation, including forest, savannah, grassland, woodland and desert, and explaining the relationship between climate and natural vegetation
Elaboration | ACHASSK088 | Content Descriptions | Year 4 | HASS | Humanities and Social Sciences | F-10 curriculum