AC9HS2K02 Year 2 Humanities and Social Sciences

Content descriptor how technological developments changed people’s lives at home, and in the ways they worked, travelled and communicated

Elaborations

• • Elaboration examining changes in technologies over several generations by comparing past and present objects and photographs, and discussing how these changes have shaped people’s lives; for example, changes to land, air and sea transport; the introduction of transistors, television, FM radio moving to digital streaming, including how people communicated over long distances
• • Elaboration identifying, through questioning adults, the communication, work and transport technologies used in the childhoods of their grandparents or familiar elders
• • Elaboration suggesting what their pattern of visits to places might have been one or two generations ago and comparing this to their current pattern
• • Elaboration identifying the technologies used by local First Nations Australians for aspects of daily life such as providing food, shelter and transportation
• • Elaboration identifying the ways current communication and transport technologies impact on our interconnections with other places; for example, online communication, accessibility to other places through different types of transport