7–10History 7–10 Syllabus
The new History 7–10 Syllabus (2024) is to be implemented from 2027.
2025 and 2026 – Plan and prepare to teach the new syllabus
2027 – Start teaching new syllabus
School sectors are responsible for implementing syllabuses and are best placed to provide schools with specific guidance and information on implementation given their understanding of their individual contexts.
Content
Life Skills
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.
Historical context: Europe’s need for more resources as a result of the Industrial Revolution led to the movement of peoples around the globe. This contributed to the making of the modern world as we know it.
This focus area aligns with:
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Content in Working with historical concepts and skills outlines how historical concepts and skills are to be integrated with all other content in this focus area as part of the process of historical inquiry.
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Engage in the historical inquiry process
Communicate ideas about the movement of peoples through oral, visual, written or multimodal texts
Groups to which students and their families belong
Shared, similar and differing values of a range of groups to which students belong
The roles and responsibilities in groups to which they belong
Personal or local stories of people coming to Australia, including when, from where, how and why they came
How convicts came to Australia and a site where they lived
The geographical location and countries involved in the movement of peoples
Groups that were affected by the movement of peoples
Aspects of the daily living or working conditions of free settlers, convicts or enslaved people, including women
The importance of human labour for production of goods
How the movement of peoples provided human labour for countries
The contributions or achievements of a significant individual or group
A key moment(s), achievement(s) or turning point(s) in the movement of peoples
The ongoing legacy of a significant person
The impacts of convict or slave labour
How the resistance and collective action of convicts led to the development of workers’ rights in Australia
Perspectives on the impacts of convict or slave labour