AC9HH9K05
Year 9
Humanities and Social Sciences
AC9HH9K05 | Year 9 History: Making and transforming the Australian nation (1750–1914)
Content Descriptor
Content descriptor 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
Strand
Knowledge and understanding
Substrand
Making and transforming the Australian nation (1750–1914)
This content descriptor sets out learning for Year 9 History. Use it to plan lessons and assessment with the Australian Curriculum v9.
Elaborations
- • Elaboration 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
- • Elaboration examining the social and political impact of religious sectarianism between Catholics and Protestants in the formation of the Australian nation
- • Elaboration 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
- • Elaboration 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
Plan a lesson from this content description.
Start freeAchievement standard statements this supports
- They describe the social, cultural, economic and/or political aspects related to the changes and continuities in a society or a historical period.See it on the standard page →
- Students explain the role of significant ideas, individuals, groups and institutions connected to the developments of this period and their influences on the historical events.See it on the standard page →