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AC9HH9K07: Year 9 Humanities and Social Sciences Content Descriptor – Making and transforming the Australian nation (1750–1914)
AC9HH9K07 Year 9 Humanities and Social Sciences

AC9HH9K07 – Year 9 Humanities and Social Sciences: Making and transforming the Australian nation (1750–1914)

Strand
Knowledge and understanding
Substrand
Making and transforming the Australian nation (1750–1914)

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.

Content Descriptor

the development of Australian society in relation to other nations in the world by 1914, including the effects of ideas and movements of people

Elaborations

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    investigating how the major social legislation of the new Federal Government affected living and working conditions in Australia; for example, the Harvester Judgment, the Immigration Restriction Act 1901, invalid and old-age pensions, the maternity allowance scheme and the Defence Act 1903

  • • explaining the continuities and changes in the role of women, such as advocating for women’s rights, suffrage, political representation and pacificism; (for example, Elizabeth Macquarie, Caroline Chisholm, Catherine Helen Spence, Louisa Lawson, Muriel Matters, Vida Goldstein)

Achievement Standard This Supports

This Content Descriptor contributes to the following Achievement Standard:

Year 9 ASHAHISY9
Year 9 Humanities and Social Sciences Achievement Standard
By the end of Year 9, students explain the historical significance of the period of the early modern world up to 1918. They explain the causes and effects of events, developments, turning points or movements globally, in Australia, and in relation to the First World War or in an Asian context. They describe the social, cultural, economic and/or political aspects related to the changes and continuities in a society or a historical period. 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. Students develop and modify questions about the past to inform historical inquiry. They locate, select and compare primary and secondary sources, and use information in sources as evidence in historical inquiry. They explain the origin, content, context and purpose of primary and secondary sources. Students compare sources to determine the accuracy, usefulness and reliability of sources as evidence.  They explain causes and effects, and patterns of continuity and change connected to a period, event or movement. Students compare perspectives of significant events and developments, and explain the factors that influence these perspectives. They analyse different and contested historical interpretations. Students use historical knowledge, concepts and terms to develop descriptions, explanations and historical arguments that acknowledge evidence from sources.