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7–10History 7–10 Syllabus

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Implementation from 2027
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Stage 5

Depth study (options)

Teachers select from the following options.

Relating to Historical context 4 (core): The making of the modern world (1750–c. 1945)

  • The Industrial Revolution
  • The movement of peoples
  • Imperialism in Asia
  • Key ideas and movements
  • The Holocaust

Relating to Historical context 5 (core): The modern world

  • Rights and freedoms of Australian women
  • Migration experiences
  • Popular culture
  • The environmental movement

Relating to content in either Stage 4 or Stage 5:

  • School-developed topic
Depth study (option) – The Industrial Revolution (1750–1850)

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 process of historical inquiry.

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Working with historical concepts and skills

  • Evaluate and use relevant historical concepts and skills

  • Engage in historical inquiry, integrating information from a range of sources as evidence where appropriate

  • Create written texts to analyse historical concepts related to the Industrial Revolution

Background and origins of the Industrial Revolution

  • The British Agricultural Revolution, population movements and changing patterns of settlement in Britain

  • The connection between imperialism and industrialisation

Significant groups, individuals, ideas, beliefs, practices or events in the Industrial Revolution

  • Key technological inventions that affected transport, manufacturing and industrialisation

  • Changes in social structure and living conditions in Britain

  • Working conditions in factories, mines and other occupations, with particular emphasis on child labour

  • Social movements and ideologies that emerged and influenced change during the Industrial Revolution

Impact and legacies of the Industrial Revolution

At least ONE of the following impacts and legacies:

  • The contribution of industrialisation to the development of Britain in this period

  • Short-term and long-term impacts of the Industrial Revolution

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