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AC9HH10K18: Year 10 Humanities and Social Sciences Content Descriptor – The globalising world
AC9HH10K18 Year 10 Humanities and Social Sciences

AC9HH10K18 – Year 10 Humanities and Social Sciences: The globalising world

Strand
Knowledge and understanding
Substrand
The globalising world

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

continuities and changes in perspectives, responses, beliefs and values that have influenced the Australian way of life

Elaborations

  • • explaining why environmental movements gained increasing public voice and identifying different perspectives
  • • investigating how Australians in the 1960s and 1970s, influenced by the events of those decades, began to question the traditional notions of egalitarianism, a fair go, classlessness and democracy; for example, conscription and the Vietnam War, the Women’s Liberation Movement and the dismissal of the Whitlam government
  • • comparing and contrasting the policies relating to engagement with the Asia-Pacific region of the governments led by prime minister Paul Keating (1991–1996) and prime minister John Howard (1996–2007)
  • • examining the nature of religion in Australia; for example, the changing attitudes to religious practice, the increase of non-Christian religions and non-traditional Christian churches

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.