AC9HH7K05 Year 7 Humanities and Social Sciences

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.

the technological achievements of early First Nations Australians, and how these developed in different places and contributed to daily life, and land and water source management

Elaborations

• 1 investigating chronologies of technological achievements for continuity and change over time, including the development of stone tools and stone-knapping techniques such as ground-edge tools, hafted axes and mill stones
• 2 exploring how food production or procurement such as agriculture, aquaculture, nomadism and hunter-gatherer/forager societies were influenced by the environment; for example, people in the Torres Strait Islands and Cape York developing maritime technologies and people in arid environments developing a nomadic lifestyle, and the development of sustainable harvesting practices such as those of the Mithaka People in Queensland’s Channel Country
• 3 exploring land and water management practices developed by early First Nations Australians, such as cultural burning practices, and the conservation and use of water through the development of weirs, irrigation and water evaporation reduction systems
• 4 exploring aquaculture practices developed by early First Nations Australians, such as eel traps of the Gundtitjmara People at Budj Bim, Victoria, the mollusc harvesting of the Kombumerri People on the Gold Coast, Queensland, and stone fish traps used by the Ngemba People at Brewarrina, New South Wales

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