AC9HH9K18 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 role of a significant individual or group such as agricultural and factory workers, inventors and entrepreneurs, landowners, politicians and religious groups in promoting and enacting some of the ideas that emerged during the Industrial Revolution

Elaborations

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  explaining responses to particular ideas; for example, how religious groups responded to ideas in Charles Darwin’s 1859 book On the Origin of Species or how workers responded to the idea of capitalism or socialism

• 2 investigating the role played by an individual or group in promoting a key idea; for example, the role of Adam Smith and entrepreneurs in promoting capitalism, Florence Nightingale in promoting reform to health care and the rights of women, Pope Leo XIII in promoting the rights of workers in capitalist economies, Chartist William Cuffay in Tasmania or British Chartists on the goldfields in Victoria and New South Wales

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