AC9HH7K07
Year 7
Humanities and Social Sciences
AC9HH7K07 | Year 7 History: Deep time history of Australia
Content Descriptor
Content descriptor the cultural obligations of First Nations Australians about significant heritage sites, including ancestral remains, material culture and artefacts, and the role of collaboration between First Nations Australians and other individuals and groups to ensure cultural preservation
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 recognising how the human remains of early First Nations Australians are the ancestors of contemporary First Nations Peoples of Australia and, as such, any unauthorised disturbance is taken as a serious breach of cultural protocol
- • Elaboration exploring how the ancestral remains found at Lake Mungo (Willandra Lakes region) illustrate the issues of ownership, cultural protocols, research and repatriation
- • Elaboration examining the importance of consultation with multiple stakeholders when conserving culture and heritage sites; for example, the collaboration between the Traditional Owners and researchers
- • Elaboration investigating world heritage criteria for the listing of significant sites such as the Budj Bim and Willandra Lakes regions, and cultural landscapes such as Uluru-Kata Tjuta and Kakadu
- • Elaboration examining the role of national and state/territory galleries, libraries, archives, museums, historical societies and field-sites in curating, conserving and showcasing First Nations Australians’ histories and cultures
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