AC9HC9K05
Year 9
Humanities and Social Sciences
AC9HC9K05 – Year 9 Humanities and Social Sciences: Citizenship, diversity and identity
Strand
Knowledge and understanding
Substrand
Citizenship, diversity and identity
This Content Descriptor from Year 9 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 Description
how and why individuals and groups, including community, religious and cultural groups, participate in and contribute to civic life in Australia and to global citizenship
Elaborations
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1
researching the work of an Australian non-government organisation (NGO), philanthropist, community group or religious group and the extent to which they contribute to the Australian community; for example, volunteers that support communities ravaged by natural disasters such as the State Emergency Service (SES), the Salvation Army, the Red Cross, Sikh Volunteers Australia
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2
researching examples of young people who are acting as global citizens, such as Malala Yousafzai and Greta Thunberg, and Australia’s Amelia Telford, Mackinley Butson and Bassam Maaliki, or UNICEF Australia’s Young Ambassadors
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3
collaborating with peers to plan a citizenship campaign on an issue related to sustainability or climate change
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