AC9HH8S01 Year 8 Humanities and Social Sciences

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.

develop historical questions about the past to inform historical inquiry

Elaborations

• 1 developing a key question such as “How did the decline of Rome’s western empire change the organisation of European society?” or “Why did Easter Island (Rapa Nui) society decline?”; identifying related questions to inform the inquiry, such as “What evidence is there?” and “What theories have been developed?”
• 2 developing questions about historical significance such as “How many people were affected by the Black Death?” and “How long did it last?”
• 3 reviewing questions when faced with unexpected or challenging developments posed by the historical investigation; for example, “How was the organisation of Japanese society influenced by world events?”

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