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 the ancient world
Teachers select at least ONE option from the list below:
- Early human societies
- Aboriginal Peoples’ historical interactions
- Law and justice in an ancient society
- Significant individual in an ancient society
- Social structures and cultural traditions of a group in the ancient world
- Slavery and slave trades in an ancient society
- Trade and cultural exchanges across the ancient world
- Women in ancient societies
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 life in the ancient world
Organise historical events or actions in chronological order
Communicate ideas about the past through oral, visual, written or multimodal texts
Roles of people in their family, familiar groups or the community
Familiar cultural traditions
Reasons communities have rules and laws
Who has power and authority in a community
Ways that people obtain goods and services today
Aspects of the ancient past that can still be observed today
Experiences of historical interactions between Aboriginal Language Groups
Aspects of Aboriginal Peoples’ historical social structures, trade and travel
Purpose of historical interactions among Aboriginal Peoples
Significance of the historical interactions among Aboriginal Peoples