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7–10History 7–10 Syllabus

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Stage 5

Life Skills for Stage 4/5

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.

The movement of peoples (1750–1901)

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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Working with historical concepts and skills
  • Use relevant historical concepts and skills

  • Engage in the historical inquiry process

  • Communicate ideas about the movement of peoples through oral, visual, written or multimodal texts

Background, origins and connections to the movement of peoples
  • 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

Significant groups, individuals, ideas, beliefs, practices or events 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

Impact and legacies of 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

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