7–10History Elective 7–10 Syllabus (2025)
The new History Elective 7–10 Syllabus (2025) is to be implemented from 2028 and will replace the History Elective 7–10 Syllabus (2019).
2026 and 2027 – Plan and prepare to teach the new syllabus
2028 – Start teaching the 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. Schools may choose to implement the new syllabus during the planning and preparation phase.
Content
Life Skills
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.
Investigating public history
Teachers select at least ONE option from the list below:
- Collective memory and public history
- Commemoration and memorialisation of the past
- Cultural and public landmarks
- Digital storytelling and public history
- Popular culture and public history
- Museum practices
Content in Thinking and working historically 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.
LoadingUse relevant historical concepts and skills
Engage in the process of historical inquiry, including the use of sources
Explore approaches, methods or tools to investigate public history
Explore public history to learn about life in the past
Organise historical events or actions in chronological order
Communicate ideas about the past through oral, visual, written or multimodal texts
Personal events that are remembered and celebrated
Familiar experiences of commemorating and remembering the past
Memories of the past that are shared by groups
Ways history is shared and experienced by the public
Reasons places, buildings, statues or objects are used to remember or learn about the past
Cultural or public landmarks that represent a person, place or event
Changes in the ways cultural or public landmarks have been used to represent the person, place or event
Reasons the selected cultural or public landmark is significant
Ways that the selected cultural or public landmark is respected and cared for