AC9HH7K05 Year 7 Humanities and Social Sciences

AC9HH7K05 – 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 Descriptor

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

• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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

Achievement Standard This Supports

This Content Descriptor contributes to the following Achievement Standard:

Year 7 ASHAHISY7

Year 7 Humanities and Social Sciences Achievement Standard

By the end of Year 7, students describe the historical significance of the ancient past and the histories of early First Nations Peoples of Australia. They identify the causes and effects of events, developments and achievements connected to groups and individuals in Australia and other societies from the ancient past. Students describe the social, religious, cultural, economic, environmental and/or political aspects related to changes and continuities in these societies. They identify the roles and achievements of significant individuals and groups, and the influences on the development of ancient societies. Students explain the importance of heritage sites connected to Australia and other societies from the ancient past. Students develop questions about the past. They locate and identify primary and secondary sources as evidence in historical inquiry. They describe the origin, content, context and purpose of primary and secondary sources. Students identify the accuracy and usefulness of sources as evidence. They sequence events and developments to describe causes and effects, and continuities and changes across societies and periods of time. They describe the perspectives, attitudes and values of the past in sources. They identify and describe historical interpretations about significant events and people. Students use historical knowledge, concepts, terms and evidence from sources to create descriptions, explanations and historical arguments.