AC9HC8K02
Year 8
Humanities and Social Sciences
AC9HC8K02 | Year 8 Civics and Citizenship: Government and democracy
Content Descriptor
Content descriptor the role of political parties and independent representatives in Australian democracy, including elections and the formation of governments
Strand
Knowledge and understanding
Substrand
Government and democracy
This content descriptor sets out learning for Year 8 Civics and Citizenship. Use it to plan lessons and assessment with the Australian Curriculum v9.
Elaborations
- • Elaboration examining the structure and composition of current parliaments, both federal and state/territory
- • Elaboration evaluating different voting systems such as preferential and proportional representation
- • Elaboration understanding how government is formed and may be lost, through discussing concepts such as parliamentary majority, the opposition, hung parliament, minority government, party discipline and balance of power
- • Elaboration investigating the roles of political parties and elected representatives, including independents
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