AC9HS2K02 Year 2 Humanities and Social Sciences

This Content Descriptor from Year 2 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.

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

Elaborations

• 1 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
• 2 identifying, through questioning adults, the communication, work and transport technologies used in the childhoods of their grandparents or familiar elders
• 3 suggesting what their pattern of visits to places might have been one or two generations ago and comparing this to their current pattern
• 4 identifying the technologies used by local First Nations Australians for aspects of daily life such as providing food, shelter and transportation
• 5 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

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