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AC9HC8S05: Year 8 Humanities and Social Sciences Content Descriptor – Communicating
AC9HC8S05 Year 8 Humanities and Social Sciences

AC9HC8S05 – Year 8 Humanities and Social Sciences: Communicating

Strand
Skills
Substrand
Communicating

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

create descriptions, explanations and arguments using civics and citizenship knowledge, concepts and terms that reference evidence

Elaborations

  • • persuading the public on a contemporary issue or about a need for action, using evidence; for example, to argue the case for a constitutional change or an advertisement promoting participation in Australia’s democracy
  • • using appropriate terms and concepts such as “freedoms”, “responsibilities”, “common law”, “statutory law” and “customary law”

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.