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AC9HH7K01 Year 7 Humanities and Social Sciences

AC9HH7K01 | Year 7 History: Deep time history of Australia

Content Descriptor

Content descriptor 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
Strand
Knowledge and understanding
Substrand
Deep time history of Australia

This content descriptor sets out learning for Year 7 History. Use it to plan lessons and assessment with the Australian Curriculum v9.

Elaborations

  • • Elaboration identifying different theories regarding human evolution such as the Out of Africa Theory and the Modern Theory of Evolution
  • • Elaboration describing how environmental changes, such as climate change and desertification, triggered the movement of peoples from Africa
  • • Elaboration 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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