AC9HH9K06 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.

different experiences and perspectives of colonisers, settlers and First Nations Australians and the impact of these experiences on changes to Australian society's ideas, beliefs and values

Elaborations

• 1 investigating the experiences of a specific group of arrivals to Australia, such as convicts in Sydney, Hobart or Brisbane, or free settlers in Melbourne, Adelaide, Perth or Darwin
• 2 examining how convicts transported to Australia were able to begin new lives away from the rigid class structures of English society, with many of them making significant contributions to the emerging colonial society; for example, Francis Greenway and Samuel Terry
• 3 describing the impact of changes brought about by non-indigenous groups on First Nations Australians
• 4 examining the experiences of non-Europeans in Australia prior to the 1900s, such as Japanese pearlers in Darwin, Chinese people on the goldfields in Victoria and New South Wales, South Sea Islanders on sugar plantations in Queensland, and Afghan cameleers in central Australia
• 5 exploring the perspectives and experiences of First Nations Australians, including discussing terms in relation to Australian history such as “invasion”, “colonisation” and “settlement”, and why these continue to be contested within society today

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