AC9HC7S01
Year 7
Humanities and Social Sciences
AC9HC7S01 | Year 7 Civics and Citizenship: Questioning and researching
Content Descriptor
Content descriptor develop questions to investigate Australia’s political and legal systems, and contemporary civic issues
Strand
Skills
Substrand
Questioning and researching
This content descriptor sets out learning for Year 7 Civics and Citizenship. Use it to plan lessons and assessment with the Australian Curriculum v9.
Elaborations
- • Elaboration developing a key question related to a specific investigation; for example, “What is the ‘rule of law’ and how does it apply to Australia’s legal system?” or “How does Australia’s federal system of government divide powers between states and territories?”
- • Elaboration using current events to generate questions that apply to the wider investigation; for example, “How is Australians’ freedom of expression protected and limited in cases of incorrect information being published or distributed?”
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Read the full Year 7 Civics and Citizenship achievement standard