AC9HS5K03 – Year 5 Humanities and Social Sciences: History

This Content Descriptor from Year 5 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

• • investigating an event or development and explaining its economic, social or political impact on a colony; for example, the impact of Blaxland, Wentworth and Lawson travelling across the Blue Mountains in 1813 on the expansion of farming; the impact of the exploration of the interior by figures such as Mitchell, Oxley and Sturt on frontier conflict; the impact of the introduction of merino sheep on economic development; the impact of the Eureka Stockade on the development of democracy; the impact of internal exploration and the advent of rail on the expansion of farming; the impact of Bennelong as a mediator between two cultures
• • creating “what if” scenarios by constructing different outcomes for a key event; for example, “What if Peter Lalor had encouraged gold miners to pay rather than resist licence fees?”, “What if Arthur Phillip had not captured Bennelong?”, “What if Chinese immigrants were not allowed to land in Robe, South Australia, during the gold rush?”, “What if Governor Macquarie had not been removed by his enemies in 1821?", "What if he had not opened the Parramatta Native Institution?”
• • examining the roles of key women in the Australian colonies, such as Elizabeth Macarthur, Edith Cowan, Maria Lock, Mary Bryant, Mary Reiby, Mary MacKillop, and Truganini
• • investigating the experiences and contributions of a particular migrant group within a colony, such as the Germans in South Australia, Japanese in Broome, Afghan cameleers in the Northern Territory, Chinese at Palmer River, and Pacific Islanders in the Torres Strait
• • examining the roles and impacts of key administrative and political figures, such as early colonial governors, and First Nations warriors such as Windradyne
• • examining the development of at least one primary industry sector of the economy during the 1800s, such as wheat, wool, meat, whaling, sugar cane, pearling or mining, including the involvement of First Nations Australians

Achievement Standard This Supports

This Content Descriptor contributes to the following Achievement Standard: