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AC9HH8S07 Year 8 Humanities and Social Sciences

AC9HH8S07 | Year 8 History: Historical perspectives and interpretations

Content Descriptor

Content descriptor explain historical interpretations about significant events, individuals and groups
Strand
Skills
Substrand
Historical perspectives and interpretations

This content descriptor sets out learning for Year 8 History. Use it to plan lessons and assessment with the Australian Curriculum v9.

Elaborations

  • • Elaboration identifying differing historians’ interpretations on the short-term triggers and longer-term causes of a significant event
  • • Elaboration identifying different interpretations of an event or development, such as the influence of scientific ideas or the status of women, and accounting for the differences
  • • Elaboration using historical interpretations to describe change in relation to quality, type, speed and impact

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