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11–12Ancient History Life Skills 11–12 Syllabus (2024)

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Implementation from 2027
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Life Skills

Life Skills for Stage 6

Through collaborative curriculum planning, it may be decided that Life Skills outcomes and content are the most appropriate option for some students with intellectual disability.

Investigating ancient history – The nature of ancient history

Students may investigate one or more of the following options, part of an option or elements of the content as appropriate. Content from the options can also be combined for an integrated study or combined with any of the case studies.

  • The investigation of ancient sites and sources
  • The representation of the ancient past
  • Conservation and reconstruction of ancient sites
  • Cultural heritage and the role of museums
  • The treatment and display of human remains
Cultural heritage and the role of museums
Sources and the ancient past

  • Items of importance to personal or community history

  • Engaging with local Aboriginal Communities

  • Different types of sources

  • Places historians can find sources to investigate the ancient past

  • How sources are used to understand people, places and events from the ancient past

  • The importance of the context or provenance of an artefact

  • Sources can be used to ask and answer questions about the past

Ownership of the past

  • Personal connections to cultural heritage

  • Ownership of cultural property

  • Illegal trade and looting in reference to antiquities and archaeological sites

  • The importance of cultural property for the society to which it belongs

  • The different ways museums collect, display and store artefacts

  • Various stakeholders interested in artefacts and sites

  • Different perspectives about who should own cultural property

  • Perspectives about the acquisition and display of artefacts

  • The contributions of museums to our knowledge of history

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