AC9HH8K05 Year 8 Humanities and Social Sciences

AC9HH8K05 – Year 8 Humanities and Social Sciences: Medieval Europe and the early modern world

Strand

Knowledge and understanding

Substrand

Medieval Europe and the early modern world

This Content Descriptor from Year 8 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 role and achievements of a significant individual and/or group in Medieval, Renaissance or pre-modern Europe

Elaborations

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explaining the influence and dominance of the Catholic Church on society using visual sources such as the illustration of Hell in the Hortus Deliciarum manuscript by Herrad of Landsberg
• investigating the role of the Catholic Church in Medieval Europe in the provision of social services such as education, health care and social welfare, and in feudal village organisation
• explaining the influence of the Medici family in Florence as bankers and merchants, and their patronage of the arts
• explaining the influences and contributions of individuals such as Lucrezia Borgia, Galileo, Leonardo da Vinci, Niccolo Machiavelli, Martin Luther and Louis XIV
• investigating the role and achievements of Henry VIII, Elizabeth I and Martin Luther
• investigating the importance of the Scientific Revolution, in particular the scientific theories and discoveries of Copernicus, Galileo, Kepler and Newton, for overturning traditional views of the motion of the planets, and how these contributed to science being seen by many as an alternative to the Church as a source of fundamental truth about reality
• investigating the role and significance of Oliver Cromwell and the execution of Charles I in the English Civil War in the development of the Westminster parliamentary system

Achievement Standard This Supports

This Content Descriptor contributes to the following Achievement Standard:

Year 8 ASHAHISY8

Year 8 Humanities and Social Sciences Achievement Standard

By the end of Year 8, students describe the historical significance of the periods between the ancient and modern past. They explain the causes and effects of events, developments, turning points or challenges in Medieval, Renaissance or pre-modern Europe, or in the societies connected to the empires or expansions, or the societies of the Asia-Pacific world during these periods. They describe the social, religious, cultural, economic, environmental and/or political aspects related to the changes and continuities in a society or a historical period. Students describe the role of significant individuals, groups and institutions connected to the societies of these periods and their influences on historical events. Students develop questions about the past to inform historical inquiry. They locate and identify a range of primary and secondary sources as evidence in historical inquiry. They describe the origin, content and context of sources and explain the purpose of primary and secondary sources. Students compare sources to explain the accuracy, usefulness and reliability of sources as evidence. They sequence events and developments to explain causes and effects, and patterns of continuity and change across societies and time periods. They describe perspectives, attitudes and values of the past, and suggest reasons for different points of view. They explain historical interpretations about significant events and people. Students use historical knowledge, concepts, terms and references to evidence from sources to create descriptions, explanations and historical arguments.