AC9HH9S07 – Year 9 Humanities and Social Sciences: Historical perspectives and interpretations

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.

Elaborations

• 1 exploring debates about the historical period or topic studied, such as the relative importance of and responsibility for the causes of World War I
• 2 comparing similarities and differences in historians' views about colonial society, such as the emergence of Australian identity, the influence of the "White Australia" debate on the push for Federation, and the idea of Australia as a "working man's paradise"
• 3 identifying different interpretations of specific events (for example, the debate about conscription in Australia during the First World War)
• 4 analysing how historians have changed the way they interpret the event under investigation over time, such as a change in view with the discovery of more sources (for example, as with frontier conflicts in Australia)

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