AC9HC8S01 Year 8 Humanities and Social Sciences

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

Elaborations

• • Elaboration developing a key question and related questions to investigate an issue; for example, "How do young people effectively participate in democratic processes to influence issues that impact on them?", "How did public opinion help in persuading the government on the importance of providing a National Disability Insurance Scheme?"
• • Elaboration developing a range of closed and open-ended questions about a particular topic or issue; for example, “What are the main features of a democracy?”, “How are laws made?” and “What is the relationship between democracy and active citizenship?"
• • Elaboration considering current events to generate ideas for research; for example, how Australian governments have developed media and communications campaigns on public health issues to reach the culturally and linguistically diverse groups in Australia, why media coverage of the National Agreement on Closing the Gap reflects changing perspectives on Australia's national identity