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
Stage 5
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
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.
Loading...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 movement of peoples
Reasons for the movement of people in Britain from villages to towns and cities
Effects of the Industrial Revolution on the movement of peoples throughout the world, including the transatlantic slave trade and transportation to Australia
Differing experiences of enslaved people, convicts, emancipists and free settlers
Slavery in the British Empire and the abolition movement
Experiences of at least ONE group of people who moved or migrated during this period
At least ONE of the following impacts and legacies:
The impact of European arrivals in Australia on Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander Peoples of the regions occupied
Legacies of the transportation of enslaved people to the Americas and convicts to Australia