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AC9HH7S05 Year 7 Humanities and Social Sciences

AC9HH7S05 | Year 7 History: Historical perspectives and interpretations

Content Descriptor

Content descriptor describe causes and effects, and explain continuities and changes
Strand
Skills
Substrand
Historical perspectives and interpretations

This content descriptor sets out learning for Year 7 History. Use it to plan lessons and assessment with the Australian Curriculum v9.

Elaborations

  • • Elaboration sequencing events from early Australia and the ancient society in order, using timelines to identify and describe causes and effects
  • • Elaboration defining terms such as “BC” (Before Christ), “AD” (Anno Domini), “BCE” (Before Common Era), “CE” (Common Era), “BP” (Before Present) and “history” (the period beginning with named individuals and textual recording)
  • • Elaboration identifying gaps in timelines or narratives and explaining possible reasons for why these gaps occur
  • • Elaboration sequencing a range of primary sources in chronological order to support the development of an explanation of continuities or changes

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