AC9HH7K03
Year 7
Humanities and Social Sciences
AC9HH7K03 | Year 7 History: Deep time history of Australia
Content Descriptor
Content descriptor how First Nations Australians are the world’s oldest continuing cultures, displaying evidence of both continuity and change over deep time
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 investigating dating methods used by archaeologists for the study of early First Nations Australians; for example, the use of the “Before Present” (BP) dating system
- • Elaboration exploring how we know about continuities and changes in First Nations Australians’ cultures; for example, the archaeological research showing evidence of occupation and the lives of First Nations Australians during the Pleistocene epoch at sites such as Lake Mungo and Kutikina Cave
- • Elaboration exploring evidence of continuities and changes in the ancient period at specific sites; for example, dating the creation of pictographs and the carving of petroglyphs at sites such as the Dampier Archipelago, Grampians National Park, Kakadu National Park, Koonalda Cave, Uluru-Kata Tjuta National Park, Preminghana, and the West Kimberley
- • Elaboration exploring evidence of continuing culture that was evident in the ancient period, such as the use of ochre
- • Elaboration examining First Nations Australians’ views on creation and changes in the landscape that have been passed down through oral tradition, such as the existence of megafauna, changes from wetter to drier climates and changes in vegetation in central Australia
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