AC9HH7S01 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.

develop historical questions about the past to inform historical inquiry

Elaborations

• 1 developing a key question such as “How were the pyramids at Giza built?” and understanding that there may not be a definitive answer; identifying related questions to inform the inquiry, including “What evidence is there?” and “What theories have been developed?”
• 2 developing questions using historical concepts such as cause, effect, change, continuity, perspectives, interpretations and significance; for example, “What were the effects of rising sea levels on the movements of early First Nations Australians?”

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