AC9HC10S03 Year 10 Humanities and Social Sciences

This Content Descriptor from Year 10 Humanities and Social Sciences provides the specific knowledge and skills students should learn. Use it to plan lessons, create learning sequences, and design assessments that align with the Australian Curriculum v9.

analyse information, data and ideas about political, legal or civic issues to identify and evaluate differences in perspectives and interpretations

Elaborations

• 1 examining information from traditional and social media sources to identify examples of different views on and responses to a contemporary Australian political, legal or civic issue, such as limiting freedoms, placing restrictions on movement, trade or association, or debates about the use of public resources
• 2 examining the role of institutions of global governance, such as the United Nations or the International Criminal Court, and evaluating their effectiveness in upholding democratic norms and human rights
• 3 investigating a contemporary international event or situation, such as armed conflict, development of an international agreement, or natural or humanitarian disaster, to assess the effectiveness and values positions of global actors such as NGOs, and the response of the Australian Government to the event or situation

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