AC9HC8K05 Year 8 Humanities and Social Sciences

AC9HC8K05 – Year 8 Humanities and Social Sciences: Citizenship, diversity and identity

Strand

Knowledge and understanding

Substrand

Citizenship, diversity and identity

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

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

Elaborations

• 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
• exploring the collective identities of several different groups in Australia’s multicultural society, and how these identities might be represented and perceived
• discussing the differences between legal citizenship, active citizenship and global citizenship

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.