AC9HH7K01
Year 7
Humanities and Social Sciences
AC9HH7K01 – Year 7 Humanities and Social Sciences: Deep time history of Australia
Strand
Knowledge and understanding
Substrand
Deep time history of Australia
This Content Descriptor from Year 7 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
theories and historical interpretations about early human evolution and migration, such as the theory that people moved out of Africa and the causes of migration to other parts of the world, including Australia
Elaborations
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identifying different theories regarding human evolution such as the Out of Africa Theory and the Modern Theory of Evolution
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describing how environmental changes, such as climate change and desertification, triggered the movement of peoples from Africa
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identifying how different approaches, such as the use of excavation and stratigraphy, oral history and the data derived from radiocarbon dating, inform historical interpretations
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