AC9HH8S05 – Year 8 Humanities and Social Sciences: Historical perspectives and interpretations

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.

Elaborations

• 1 sequencing historical events to identify broader patterns of cause and/or effect, and change and/or continuity across society, and explaining their observations with reference to key events, individuals, themes and sources of evidence
• 2 describing continuities by highlighting the lack of deviation, the similarities of important aspects, and the widespread nature of similarities in the era, period or society despite an event, idea, person, group or movement achieving short-term significance

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