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 histories of women
Teachers select at least ONE option from the list below:
- Historical experiences of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women
- Historical experiences of women and migration
- Recovering women’s forgotten voices
- Women and access to education across different eras
- Women in a selected society
- Women of influence in a historical context
- Women’s roles in social movements and in advancing human rights
- Women’s roles in revolutions
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 historical sources to learn about the life of women in the past
Organise historical events or actions in chronological order
Communicate ideas about the past through oral, visual, written or multimodal texts
The roles of familiar women in students’ lives
Ways everyday life for women today is the same and different to life in the past
Women’s groups or individuals in a selected society
Roles and contributions of women’s groups or individuals in the selected society
Key events or activities of women’s groups or individuals in the selected society
Different experiences of women’s groups or individuals in the selected society
Impact and legacy of women’s groups or individuals in the selected society