AC9HC8S01 Year 8 Humanities and Social Sciences

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.

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

Elaborations

• 1 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?"
• 2 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?"
• 3 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

Related Achievement Standards