AC9HH10S07 – Year 10 Humanities and Social Sciences: 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.

Elaborations

• 1 exploring debates about the historical period or topic studied, such as the “Brisbane Line”, “reds under the bed” and McCarthyism
• 2 identifying different interpretations and constructing an argument about which interpretation has the evidence to support it
• 3 analysing how historians have changed the way they interpret the event under investigation over time, such as a change in view with the discovery of more sources
• 4 constructing a historical argument that identifies different possibilities in interpretation, organising ideas to build an argument, presents a particular point of view with consistent reference to the evidence available, and uses evaluative language

Related Achievement Standards