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AC9HC8K03: Year 8 Humanities and Social Sciences Content Descriptor – Laws and citizens
AC9HC8K03 Year 8 Humanities and Social Sciences

AC9HC8K03 – Year 8 Humanities and Social Sciences: Laws and citizens

Strand
Knowledge and understanding
Substrand
Laws and citizens

This Content Descriptor from Year 8 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

the characteristics of laws and how laws are made in Australia through parliaments (statutory law) and through the courts (common law)

Elaborations

  • • exploring the characteristics of laws, such as reflecting society’s values; being enforceable; being known, clear and understood; and being relatively stable
  • • understanding how governments can introduce new rules and regulations without parliament voting on them (for example, delegated or subordinate legislation is not made directly by an Act of parliament, but under the authority of an Act of parliament)
  • • questioning whether laws are affected by different cultural or social perspectives, such as those of First Nations Australians
  • • identifying the 2 chief sources of law (parliament and the courts) and analysing a case study of statute and common law
  • • examining the relationship between parliament and the courts

Achievement Standard This Supports

This Content Descriptor contributes to the following Achievement Standard:

Year 8 ASHASCIVY8
Year 8 Humanities and Social Sciences Achievement Standard
By the end of Year 8, students explain how Australians are informed about and participate in their democracy. They describe the roles of political parties and elected representatives in Australian government. They explain the characteristics of laws, how laws are made and the types of law in Australia. Students identify ways in which Australians express different aspects of their identity and explain perspectives on Australia’s national identity. Students develop questions and locate, select and organise relevant information from different sources to investigate political and legal systems, and contemporary civic issues. They analyse information and identify and describe perspectives and challenges related to political, legal or civic issues. They explain the methods or strategies related to civic participation or action. Students use civics and citizenship knowledge, concepts, terms and references to evidence from sources to create descriptions, explanations and arguments.