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7–10History 7–10 Syllabus

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Stage 5

Depth study (options)

Students can investigate 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 environmental movement (c. 1960 – c. 2015)

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 environmental movement

Background and origins of the environmental movement

  • The role of United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) in the protection of World Heritage Sites of cultural significance

  • The significance of the Stockholm Conference (1972) in increasing public awareness of environmental issues

Significant groups, individuals, ideas, beliefs, practices or events in the environmental movement

  • The nature and role of the 1970s NSW Green Bans movement in the preservation of heritage sites in Sydney and NSW

  • Impact of at least ONE event on changing attitudes to the environment such as, Tasmania Dams Case (1983, Commonwealth v Tasmania), the sinking of Greenpeace’s Rainbow Warrior (1985), Chernobyl disaster (1986), Jabiluka mine controversy (1998), Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill (2010)

  • The international communities’ cooperation and actions towards environmental issues and threats since the 1960s

Impact and legacies of the environmental movement

At least ONE of the following impacts and legacies:

  • The actions of ONE government or organisation in response to an environmental threat since the 1960s

  • The impact and legacies of human activities on the environment for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples

  • The impact and legacies of human activities on the environment for International Indigenous People

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