AC9HH9K05 Year 9 Humanities and Social Sciences

This Content Descriptor from Year 9 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.

continuities and changes and their effects on ways of life and living conditions, political and legal institutions, and cultural expression around the turn of the 20th century in Australian society

Elaborations

• 1 examining the living and working conditions in Australia around 1900 and making comparisons between different settings (for example, rural versus urban) using sources such as photographs, paintings, diaries and newspapers
• 2 examining the social and political impact of religious sectarianism between Catholics and Protestants in the formation of the Australian nation
• 3 identifying the main features of housing, sanitation, transport, education, agriculture and industry that influenced living and working conditions in Australia around 1900 and comparing them with early colonisation around 1800
• 4 explaining how laws made by the federal parliament, such as those resulting from the Harvester Judgement or the introduction of pensions, affected working conditions and standards of living

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