AC9HH9K09 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.

the places of significance where Australians fought, their perspectives and experiences, including the Gallipoli campaign, the Western Front and the Middle East

Elaborations

• 1 identifying the places where Australians fought, such as Gallipoli, Fromelles, the Somme, Pozières, Passchendaele, Bullecourt, Villers-Bretonneux, Sinai Peninsula, Gaza and Beersheba
• 2 investigating the difficulties of trench warfare, the development of military technology such as the use of tanks, aeroplanes and chemical weapons (gas)
• 3 comparing and contrasting the different experiences of war, such as those of foot soldiers on the Western Front compared with those of the Light Horse in Palestine

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