AC9HC8K05 Year 8 Humanities and Social Sciences

AC9HC8K05 | Year 8 Civics and Citizenship: Citizenship, diversity and identity

Content Descriptor

Content descriptor how culture and religion may influence individuals' and groups' perceptions and expressions of citizenship and their actions as citizens

Strand

Knowledge and understanding

Substrand

Citizenship, diversity and identity

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 exploring how people express different aspects of their personal identity through membership of multiple communities, such as cultural groups, faith groups, professional associations, trade unions, and sporting and social clubs, and how this is reflected in expressions of citizenship; for example, fund-raising for community services or supporting people experiencing health concerns
• Elaboration exploring the collective identities of several different groups in Australia’s multicultural society, and how these identities might be represented and perceived
• Elaboration discussing the differences between legal citizenship, active citizenship and global citizenship

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Achievement standard statements this supports

Achievement standardASHASCIV804Year 8 Civics and CitizenshipStudents identify ways in which Australians express different aspects of their identity and explain perspectives on Australia’s national identity.See it on the standard page →

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