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 Aboriginal Country as historical record
Teachers select at least ONE option from the list below:
- Aboriginal sites and material culture from the Pleistocene and Holocene epochs
- Country as a living archive for Aboriginal Peoples
- Repatriation and the return to Country
- Oral Traditions in Aboriginal historical Practice
- Shared histories, experiences and personal testimonies related to Aboriginal Country
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 used by Aboriginal Peoples to record and share history
Explore Aboriginal Cultural accounts or material culture to learn about Aboriginal Country as historical record
Organise historical events or actions in chronological order
Communicate ideas about the past through oral, visual, written or multimodal texts
Aboriginal Language Groups(s) in the students’ local community
The long and continuing connection of Aboriginal Peoples to Country
Aboriginal Oral traditions that tell us about the past
Significant sites from the Pleistocene and Holocene epochs
Significant material culture from the Pleistocene and Holocene epochs
What selected sites or selected material culture tell us about the past
Methods used to investigate Aboriginal sites or material culture from the Pleistocene and Holocene epochs
Significance of investigating Aboriginal sites or material culture from the Pleistocene and Holocene epochs
The ways that Aboriginal Peoples know and care for Aboriginal sites or material culture from the Pleistocene and Holocene epochs