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7–10History 7–10 Syllabus

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Implementation from 2027
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Content

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 movement of peoples (1750–1901)

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 movement of peoples

Background and origins of 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

Significant groups, individuals, ideas, beliefs, practices or events in the movement of peoples
  • 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

Impact and legacies of the movement of peoples

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

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