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AC9HC8S04: Year 8 Humanities and Social Sciences Content Descriptor – Civic participation and decision-making
AC9HC8S04 Year 8 Humanities and Social Sciences

AC9HC8S04 – Year 8 Humanities and Social Sciences: Civic participation and decision-making

Strand
Skills
Substrand
Civic participation and decision-making

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

explain the methods or strategies related to making decisions about civic participation

Elaborations

  • • describing how active citizenship strategies may contribute to an informed and positive change, and to building a democratically cohesive society; for example, stopping whaling, reducing carbon emissions
  • • explaining the links between democratic societies, active citizenship and global citizenship at national, regional and global levels, and methods used to take civic action; for example, citizens who protest against militaristic and authoritarian regimes and/or abuses of human rights in other societies

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.