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  • VCHHC121

    Sequence significant events in chronological order to support analysis of the causes and effects of these events and identify the changes they brought about

    Elaborations

    • creating a timeline that identifies the significant events or individuals across the period 1750-1918 and observe and discuss patterns of causation and change and/or identifying parts of the world that were involved in, or affected by, those events
    • developing an argument using historical sources and perspectives about the effects of the Industrial Revolution on changing living and working conditions, including within Australia society in the 19th Century
    • placing in sequence the main events of the Freedom Rides campaigns in the United States and Australia and explaining the links between the two campaigns
    • using interactive timelines to explore the various manifestations or effects of an event in different geographical locations
    • organising a range of primary sources and/or perspectives in chronological order to support the development of a historical argument about effects or changes

    VCHHC121 | The Humanities | History | Levels 9 and 10 | Historical Concepts and Skills | Chronology

  • VCHHC126

    Identify and evaluate patterns of continuity and change in the development of the modern world and Australia

    Elaborations

    • using sources of evidence (perspectives and interpretations) to identify continuity and changes during Australia at the turn of the twentieth century
    • using chronologies to observe and identify patterns where changes or continuities have occurred during the Industrial Revolution, way of living and political conditions and Australia after World War II.
    • identifying the significant changes during the Industrial Revolution and rank them in order of significance. Explain ranking and discuss differences
    • organising changes of everyday life into conditional factors and/or rank them according to the significance of the change
    • describing and explaining change such as the quality of change, the types of change, and the impact of change

    VCHHC126 | The Humanities | History | Levels 9 and 10 | Historical Concepts and Skills | Continuity and change

  • VCHHC122

    Analyse and evaluate the broad patterns of change over the period 1750–present

    Elaborations

    • using data from immigration records and processing it using ICT to identify historical trends over time
    • explaining the nature and extent of the movement of peoples in the period (slaves, convicts and settlers) and the emergence and nature of significant economic, social and political ideas in the period, including nationalism
    • analysing the extent of European imperial expansion and different responses, including in the Asian region
    • evaluating the inter-war years between World War I and World War II, including the Treaty of Versailles, the Roaring Twenties and the Great Depression
    • evaluating continuing efforts post-World War II to achieve lasting peace and security in the world, including Australia’s involvement in UN peacekeeping
    • analysing the major movements for rights and freedom in the world and evaluating the achievement of independence by former colonies
    • explaining the nature of the Cold War and Australia’s involvement in Cold War and post-Cold War conflicts (Korea, Vietnam, The Gulf Wars, Afghanistan), including the rising influence of Asian nations since the end of the Cold War
    • explaining developments in technology, public health, longevity and standard of living during the twentieth century, and concern for the environment and sustainability

    VCHHC122 | The Humanities | History | Levels 9 and 10 | Historical Concepts and Skills | Chronology

  • VCHHK132

    Significant effects of the Industrial Revolution, including global changes in landscapes, movements of people, development and influence of ideas, political and social reforms, and transport and communication

    Elaborations

    • describing the effects of factories, mines and cities on the environment, and on population growth and distribution
    • outlining the growth of trade unions as a response to the effects of the Industrial Revolution
    • investigating and explaining the emergence and the influence of individuals and/or groups on key ideas in the period, with a particular focus on one of the following: capitalism, socialism, egalitarianism, nationalism, imperialism, Darwinism or Chartism

    VCHHK132 | The Humanities | History | Levels 9 and 10 | Historical Knowledge | The making of the modern world | Industrial Revolution (1750 – 1914)

  • VCHHK159

    Changing social, cultural, historical, economic, environmental, political and technological conditions on a major global influence in Australia

    Elaborations

    • Popular culture
      • identifying American and Asian influences on Australian popular culture since World War II, for example, through mainstream and Hollywood and Bollywood films
      • investigating the changing contribution of the Australian rock ’n’ roll, film and television industries to Australian culture and identity through the development and export of music, film and television, for example, the Easybeats from Sydney, the Go-Betweens from Brisbane and ‘Crocodile Dundee’ (1986)
      • describing significant examples of continuity and change in beliefs and values, such as democratic ideals, religious beliefs, egalitarianism
    • Environment movement
      • recognising the historic impact of the pictures of Earth taken during the Apollo 8 mission and how they influenced people’s view of the world
      • explaining the significance of ideas about the environment, for example, Gaia, the limits of growth, sustainability and rights of nature
      • investigating a range of environmental effects, for example, the flooding of Lake Pedder in Tasmania, deforestation in Indonesia, the decline of the Aral Sea, the Exxon Valdez oil spill, the whaling industry
      • explaining the struggle over French nuclear weapon testing in the Pacific from 1966–1996, for example, the sinking of the Rainbow Warrior in 1985
      • evaluating the effectiveness of international protocols and treaties such as Kyoto (1997), the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (since 1992) and the Washington Declaration (2007)
    • Migration experiences
      • describing the impact of the Vietnam war on Vietnam and how the communist victory in Vietnam (1975) resulted in the arrival of refugees into Australia
      • investigating policies of multiculturalism since the 1970s and the concepts of cultural heritage and assimilation
      • analysing post-World War II population growth and the development of Australia’s culturally diverse society using different types of graphs
    • Political Crisis
      • identifying and evaluating the changes to Australia as a result of the political crisis
      • using a chart or graphic organiser to categorise the changes to Australia

    VCHHK159 | The Humanities | History | Levels 9 and 10 | Historical Knowledge | The modern world and Australia | The globalising world

  • VCHHK131

    Different experiences and perspectives of individuals or groups and how ideas, beliefs and values changed during the significant events of the Industrial Revolution

    Elaborations

    • describing the effects of steam, gas and electricity on people’s way of life during the Industrial Revolution
    • investigating the changes in working conditions, for example, longer working hours for low pay and the use of children as a cheap source of labour
    • investigating the support for Chartism among the poorer classes as a response to deteriorating living and working conditions
    • explaining how religious groups responded to the ideas in Charles Darwin’s 1859 book On the Origin of Species
    • investigating sources that record the reactions of new arrivals to other countries in this period, for example, responses to the natural environment and climate

    VCHHK131 | The Humanities | History | Levels 9 and 10 | Historical Knowledge | The making of the modern world | Industrial Revolution (1750 – 1914)

  • VCHHK136

    Patterns of continuity and change and their effects on influencing movements of people, ways of life and living conditions, political and legal institutions, and cultural expression around the turn of the twentieth century

    Elaborations

    • Australia
      • using sources to examine the living and working conditions in Australia around the turn of the twentieth century (that is 1900)
      • identifying the main features of housing, sanitation, transport, education and industry that influenced living and working conditions in Australia
      • describing the impact of the gold rushes in the hinterland on the development of ‘Marvellous Melbourne’
    • Asia
      • describing the British Raj and the forms of British influence in India, for example, the building of roads, an extensive railway network, schools and Christian missions
      • describing how increasing foreign influence and imperialism was challenging and changing Imperial China and society through trade, railway networks, missionaries, foreign concessions in cities such as Shanghai
      • describing how increasing trade, modernisation expansions and nationalism in Japan were influencing change to everyday life in Japan, the fall of the Shogun and the Meiji Restoration

    VCHHK136 | The Humanities | History | Levels 9 and 10 | Historical Knowledge | The making of the modern world | Australia and Asia

  • VCHHK129

    Causes that led to the Industrial Revolution, and other conditions and ideas that influenced the industrialisation of Britain and of Australia

    Elaborations

    • explaining why the agricultural revolution including access to raw materials, wealthy middle class, cheap labour, transport system, and expanding empire caused the Industrial Revolution
    • mapping the British Empire c.1800 CE and the raw materials it obtained from colonies, for example, sugar from Jamaica, wool from Australia, and cotton from India
    • explaining changes in technology, for example steam-driven spinning mills, railways and steam ships, which led to factories and cities
    • identifying the spread of innovations such as steam power, iron and steel production, transport; and chemicals in Europe, USA and Japan

    VCHHK129 | The Humanities | History | Levels 9 and 10 | Historical Knowledge | The making of the modern world | Industrial Revolution (1750 – 1914)

  • VCHHK130

    Causes of population movements and settlement patterns during this period and the significant changes to the way of life of groups of people

    Elaborations

    • describing the growth of cities as men, women and children moved to the cities to find employment
    • using photographs to investigate changes to the cities and landscape in European countries and Australia as the Industrial Revolution continued to develop
    • mapping the movement of peoples in the transatlantic slave trade or in convict transportation to Australia
    • explaining the role of the Industrial Revolution in creating a growing need for labour and transportation
    • evaluating the effects of the movement of peoples on the indigenous and immigrant populations

    VCHHK130 | The Humanities | History | Levels 9 and 10 | Historical Knowledge | The making of the modern world | Industrial Revolution (1750 – 1914)

  • VCHHK138

    Position of the society in relation to other nations in the world by 1918 including the effects of ideas and movements of people

    Elaborations

    • Australia
      • investigating the type of society in Australia ‘Working Man’s Paradise’, ‘Social Laboratory’
      • investigating how the major social legislation of the new Federal Government affected living and working conditions in Australia, for example Legislation 1901–1914, including the Harvester Judgment, Immigration Restriction Act, invalid and old-age pensions and the maternity allowance scheme, Defence Acts
    • Asia
      • analysing the causes of collapse of the Qing and the 1911 Revolution. Discuss reasons why there was increasing demand for Indian independence and self-government and the founding of the Indian Congress Party
      • investigating Japan’s increased expansion into China, the signing of the ‘Twenty-one Demands’ in 1915 and territorial gains as a result of the Treaty of Versailles

    VCHHK138 | The Humanities | History | Levels 9 and 10 | Historical Knowledge | The making of the modern world | Australia and Asia

  • VCHHK158

    Causes and developments of the major global influences on Australia

    Elaborations

    • Popular culture
      • analysing the causes and conditions for cultural development and the effects on Australian society
      • investigating America’s cultural influence, as seen in the arrival of television for the Melbourne Olympics (1956) and Bill Haley’s Australian tour (1957)
      • comparing and contrasting views on the values and beliefs of rock ’n’ roll, film and television across time, age and gender, for example, issues of conservatism and rebellion, the challenge to established ideas and national identity
    • Environment movement
      • analysing the causes and conditions that led to the environment movement and its effects on changing public opinion and improving the environment
      • outlining the emergence of concerns about the preservation of natural areas for future generations, for example, as reflected in the establishment of National Parks in the United States (Yellowstone National Park in 1872), Australia (Royal National Park in 1879), Canada (Rocky Mountains National Park in 1885) and New Zealand (Tongariro National Park in 1887)
      • investigating the impact of early texts that warned about environmental change, for example, Silent Spring by Rachel Carson, 1962, Don’t It Make You Want To Go Home by Joe South, 1970, Mother Earth News magazine in 1970, Mercy Mercy Me (The Ecology) lyrics by Marvin Gaye, 1971
    • Migration experiences
      • analysing the causes and conditions that led to increased migration to Australia and changing public opinion and government policy
      • describing the main features of a government policy that affected migration to Australia, such as the Immigration Restriction Act 1901 and use of the dictation test to restrict the immigration of non-Europeans
      • explaining the reasons for changes in government policy, for example the influence of White Australia ideology at the time of the introduction of the Immigration Restriction Act 1901, the Displaced Persons Scheme in the aftermath of World War II
    • Political Crisis
      • analysing the causes of the Korean or Vietnam War and its effects on Australia
      • analysing the causes and effects of the Petrov Affair
      • evaluating the developments during the Whitlam government and the causes of the government’s dismissal

    VCHHK158 | The Humanities | History | Levels 9 and 10 | Historical Knowledge | The modern world and Australia | The globalising world

  • History: Levels 9 and 10 description

    The Making of the Modern World and Australia

    In Levels 9 and 10, students study the making of the modern world from 1750 to 1918 and the modern world and Australia from 1918–present. It covers the period of industrialisation and rapid change in the ways people lived, worked and thought, the...

    Level description | The Humanities | History

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