AC9HC7S01 Year 7 Humanities and Social Sciences

AC9HC7S01 – Year 7 Humanities and Social Sciences: Questioning and researching

Strand

Skills

Substrand

Questioning and researching

This Content Descriptor from Year 7 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.

Content Descriptor

develop questions to investigate Australia’s political and legal systems, and contemporary civic issues

Elaborations

• 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?”
• 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?”

Achievement Standard This Supports

This Content Descriptor contributes to the following Achievement Standard:

Year 7 ASHASCIVY7

Year 7 Humanities and Social Sciences Achievement Standard

By the end of Year 7, students describe the key features of Australia's system of government, and the principles and features of the Australian legal system. They explain the characteristics of Australian democracy. Students describe the nature of Australian society, its cultural and religious diversity, and identify the values that support cohesion in Australian society. Students develop questions and locate, select and organise information from sources to investigate political and legal systems, and contemporary civic issues. They analyse information and identify perspectives and challenges related to political, legal or civic issues. They identify and describe the methods or strategies related to civic participation or action. Students use civics and citizenship concepts, terms and sources to create descriptions, explanations and arguments.