AC9HH10K13 Year 10 Humanities and Social Sciences

AC9HH10K13 – Year 10 Humanities and Social Sciences: Building modern Australia

Strand

Knowledge and understanding

Substrand

Building modern Australia

This Content Descriptor from Year 10 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

the continuing efforts to create change in the civil rights and freedoms in Australia, for First Nations Australians, migrants and women

Elaborations

• identifying areas such as education, health care, housing and employment that are the focus for continued civil rights action for First Nations Australians, and discussing why there continues to be a need for such action
• examining the changes in women’s rights in 20th- and 21st-century Australia, ranging from suffrage to election to state and commonwealth parliaments, employment law, reproductive rights, access to public places like hotels, and protections against domestic and family violence
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investigating the changes in government policy in relation to migrants and how these policies have reflected and impacted on Australia’s changing place in the world; for example, the Racial Discrimination Act 1975
• examining the ideas in and Australia’s responsibilities as a signatory to the United Nations Declaration of the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP) (2007) and discussing how it influences calls for recognising the rights of First Nations Australians and First Peoples in other countries

Achievement Standard This Supports

This Content Descriptor contributes to the following Achievement Standard:

Year 10 ASHAHISY10

Year 10 Humanities and Social Sciences Achievement Standard

By the end of Year 10, students explain the historical significance of the period between 1918 and the early 21st century. They explain the causes and effects of events, developments, turning points or movements in 20th century Australia and internationally, leading up to and through the Second World War, and the post-war world. They describe social, cultural, economic and/or political aspects, including international developments, related to the changes and continuities in Australian society over this historical period. Students explain the role of significant ideas, individuals, groups and institutions connected to the developments of this period and their influences on Australian and global history. Students develop and modify a range of questions about the past to inform historical inquiry. They locate, select and compare a range of primary and secondary sources and synthesise the information in sources to use as evidence in historical inquiry. They analyse the origin, content, context and purpose of primary and secondary sources. Students evaluate the accuracy, usefulness and reliability of sources as evidence. They sequence events and developments to analyse cause and effect, and patterns of continuity and change, connected to a period, event or movement. They evaluate perspectives of significant events and developments, and explain the important factors that influence these perspectives. They compare and evaluate different and contested historical interpretations. Students use historical knowledge, concepts and terms to develop descriptions, explanations and historical arguments that synthesise evidence from sources.