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• The Humanities: About the Humanities

  In the Victorian Curriculum F–10, the Humanities includes Civics and Citizenship, Economics and Business, Geography and History.

  The Humanities provide a framework for students to examine the complex processes that have shaped the modern world and to investigate responses to different challenges...

  Overview material | The Humanities

• The Humanities | Civics and Citizenship: Learning in Civics and Citizenship

  Civics and Citizenship curriculum develops students’ knowledge of political and legal institutions and explores the nature of citizenship in a pluralistic liberal democracy. Students will develop general skills and capabilities such as an appreciation of diverse perspectives, empathy...

  Overview material | Civics and Citizenship

• VCHHC070

  Identify and explain the causes and effects of European settlement and exploration

  Elaborations

  • finding historical information to determine the nature of colonial settlement, the effect of significant events and the role of individuals in shaping a colony
  • exploring different stories about contact experiences and early penal life to discover the thoughts or feelings of the people at that time, for example, convicts, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, convict guards and free settlers

  VCHHC070 | The Humanities | History | Levels 3 and 4 | Historical Concepts and Skills | Cause and effect

• The Humanities | Economics and Business: Learning in Economics and Business

  Foundation to Level 4 – Laying the foundations

  While there is no formal economics and business curriculum prior to Level 5, students may have developed relevant knowledge and capabilities through other curriculum areas and interactions in everyday life.

  Students may develop a basic understanding...

  Overview material | Economics and Business

• VCCCG010

  Identify and discuss the key features of the Australian electoral process

  Elaborations

  • exploring the secret ballot and compulsory voting as key features of Australia’s democracy
  • recognising the role of the Australian Electoral Commission in administering elections that are open, free and fair
  • clarifying who has the right to vote and stand for election in Australia
  • discussing the democratic ideas behind preferential voting and proportional representation
  • explain the process of voting and democratic ideas behind voting though conducting a class survey and using preferential voting to determine an outcome

  VCCCG010 | The Humanities | Civics and Citizenship | Levels 5 and 6 | Government and Democracy

• VCHHK089

  The nature of convict or colonial presence, including the factors that influenced changing patterns of development, how the environment changed, and aspects of the daily life of the inhabitants, including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples

  Elaborations

  • investigating colonial life to discover what life was like at that time for different inhabitants, for example, a European family and an Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander Language group, a convict and a free settler, a sugar cane farmer and an indentured labourer, in terms of clothing, diet, leisure, paid and unpaid work, language, housing and children’s lives
  • mapping local, regional and state/territory rural and urban settlement patterns in the 1800s, and noting factors such as geographical features, climate, water resources, the discovery of gold, transport and access to port facilities that shaped these patterns
  • investigating the impact of settlement on the environment, for example, comparing the present and past landscape and the flora and fauna of the local community

  VCHHK089 | The Humanities | History | Levels 5 and 6 | Historical Knowledge | The Australian colonies

• The Humanities | History: Structure

  History is organised by two strands: Historical Concepts and Skills and Historical Knowledge.

  Historical Concepts and Skills are fundamental to the discipline of history and provide a structure for the development of historical understanding. 

  Sub-strands
  Chronology
  Historical...

  Overview material | History

• The Humanities | History: Learning in History

  Historical concepts and skills

  In the History curriculum, students have the opportunity to develop historical understanding through the application of the following historical concepts and skills:

  • sequencing chronology
  • using historical sources as evidence
  • identifying continuity and change
  • analysing...

  Overview material | History

• The Humanities | Geography: Learning in Geography

  Concepts

  The Geography curriculum identifies the concepts of place, space, environment, interconnection, sustainability, scale and change, as integral to the development of geographical understanding. These are high-level ideas or ways of thinking that can be applied across the subject to identify...

  Overview material | Geography

• VCHHK137

  Different experiences and perspectives of non-Europeans and their perspectives on changes to society, significant events, ideas, beliefs and values

  Elaborations

  • Australia
    • investigating sources that record the reactions of new arrivals to other countries in this period, for example, responses to the natural environment and climate
    • investigating the experiences of a specific group of arrivals to Australia, for example, convicts in Sydney, Hobart, Brisbane or free settlers in Melbourne, Adelaide, Perth or Darwin
    • describing the impact of this group on the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples of the region
    • investigating the differing views of pastoralists and gold miners and how they influenced Victoria
    • examining the experiences of non-Europeans in Australia prior to the 1900s, such as the Japanese, Chinese, South Sea Islanders, Afghans
    • outlining the migration of Chinese to the goldfields in Australia in the nineteenth century and attitudes towards the Chinese as revealed in cartoons, for example, the Mongolian Octopus
  • Asia
    • analysing Commissioner Lin Zexu’s letter to Queen Victoria before the outbreak of the First Opium War 1839-42
    • analysing the ideas that influenced the perspectives of the Society of Righteous Harmonious Fists, Yi He Tuan (The Boxers)
    • comparing and contrast different perspectives about the effect of European colonisation of India or China or Indochina
    • analysing different perspectives of the Russo-Japanese War 1904-05

  VCHHK137 | The Humanities | History | Levels 9 and 10 | Historical Knowledge | The making of the modern world | Australia and Asia

• VCHHK119

  The role and achievements of a significant individual and/or group

  Elaborations

  • Vikings
    • creating a biography of Leif Ericson and the significance of the establishment of the colony in Newfoundland
    • outlining Erik the Red’s development of Viking settlements in Eastern and Western Greenland in 985 CE
    • comparing the artefacts discovered at L’Anse aux Meadows in Newfoundland (Canada) with Viking artefacts as possible evidence that the Vikings had discovered America 500 years before Christopher Columbus
  • Medieval Europe
    • explaining the influence and dominance of the Catholic church on society using visual sources such as the Medieval illustration of Hell in the Hortus deliciarum manuscript of Herrad of Landsberg (about 1180)
    • explaining why Charlemagne was a significant figure in Medieval Europe, such as his expansion of the Frankish kingdom and his support of the Church
    • explaining the causes and symptoms of the Black Death and the responses of different groups in society to the spread of the disease, such as the flagellants (those who would whip themselves to be free of sin) and the persecution of Jewish people
  • Ottoman Empire
    • creating a biography of Selim I or Suleiman the Magnificent in maintaining the strength and influence of the Ottoman Empire
    • evaluating the achievements of individuals, for example, Selim I in establishing the empire and capturing Jerusalem, or Suleiman the Magnificent in expanding the empire to Belgrade in Europe
  • Angkor/Khmer Empire
    • create a biography of Jayavarman VII (r. 1181 CE - 1215 CE) and his influence in expanding the empire, expelling the Chams, territorial expansion, scale of the construction program in Angkor
  • Mongol Expansion
    • creating a biography of Genghis Khan or Kublai Khan and there significant achievement of Expanding the empire, military success, codification of laws
    • creating a Venn-diagram to compare and contrast the achievements of Genghis and Kublai
  • Japan under the Shoguns
    • creating a biography of Tokugawa Ieyasu Shogun
  • Polynesian Expansion
    • examining reasons why the Maori used rahui to restrict the use of land and sea resources by individuals and groups
  • Renaissance Italy
    • explaining the influence of the Medici family in Florence as bankers and merchants, and their patronage of the arts.
    • creating a biography on the role and achievements of significant individuals such as Lucrezia Borgia, Galileo, Leonardo da Vinci, Niccolo Machiavelli
  • Spanish Conquest
    • creating a biography or a jigsaw on the significance of Columbus, Balboa, Cortes, Montezuma II, Pizarro

  VCHHK119 | The Humanities | History | Levels 7 and 8 | Historical Knowledge | Middle Ages and early exploration