AC9HH7K05
Year 7
Humanities and Social Sciences
AC9HH7K05 | Year 7 History: Deep time history of Australia
Content Descriptor
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
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 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
- • Elaboration 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
- • Elaboration 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
- • Elaboration 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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