AC9HC8S04 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.

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

Elaborations

• 1 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
• 2 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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