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AC9HH10S05: Year 10 Humanities and Social Sciences Content Descriptor – Historical perspectives and interpretations
AC9HH10S05 Year 10 Humanities and Social Sciences

AC9HH10S05 – Year 10 Humanities and Social Sciences: Historical perspectives and interpretations

Strand
Skills
Substrand
Historical perspectives and interpretations

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

analyse cause and effect, and evaluate patterns of continuity and change

Elaborations

  • • identifying the various manifestations or effects of an event in different geographical locations, using interactive timelines
  • • organising a range of primary sources in chronological order to support the development of a historical argument about significant causes
  • • explaining the links between the main ideas, actions and individuals of an event, and drawing links between them by placing them in sequence; for example, sequencing the Freedom Rides campaigns in the USA and Australia, and explaining the links between the 2 campaigns

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.