AC9HC8S04
Year 8
Humanities and Social Sciences
AC9HC8S04 | Year 8 Civics and Citizenship: Civic participation and decision-making
Content Descriptor
Content descriptor explain the methods or strategies related to making decisions about civic participation
Strand
Skills
Substrand
Civic participation and decision-making
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 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
- • Elaboration 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
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Read the full Year 8 Civics and Citizenship achievement standard