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History Level Description

Personal and Community Histories

In Foundation to Level 2, students study personal, family and local history. Students learn about their own history and that of their family, including stories from...

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History Content Descriptions

Historical Concepts and Skills

Chronology
  1. Sequence significant events about personal and family history to create a chronological narrative (VCHHC053)
Historical sources as evidence
  1. Identify the content features of primary sources when describing the significance of people, places or events (VCHHC054)
  2. Identify perspectives about changes to daily life from people in the past or present (VCHHC055)
Continuity and change
  1. Identify examples of continuity and change in family life and in the local area by comparing past and present (VCHHC056)
Historical significance
  1. Identify the significance of a person and/or place in the local community (VCHHC057)

Historical Knowledge

Personal histories
  1. Who the people in their family are, describe where they were born and raised and how they are related to each other and how their stories are communicated and shared (VCHHK058)
  2. Differences in family structures of families and the role of family groups today, and what they have in common and how these have changed or remained the same over time (VCHHK059)
  3. How the present, past and future are signified by terms indicating and describing time (VCHHK060)
  4. Differences and similarities between students' daily lives and perspectives of life during their parents’ and grandparents’ childhoods, including family traditions, leisure time and communications (VCHHK061)
Community histories
  1. How they, their family, friends and communities commemorate past events that are important to them (VCHHK062)
  2. The history of a significant person, building, site or part of the natural environment in the local community and what it reveals about the past (VCHHK063)
  3. The significance today of an historical site of cultural or spiritual importance (VCHHK064)
  4. The effect of changing technology on people’s lives and their perspectives on the significance of that change (VCHHK065)

History Achievement Standard

By the end of Level 2, students explain aspects of daily life to identify how some aspects have changed over time, while others have remained the same. They describe personal and family life, a person, a site, or an event of significance in the local community.

Students use sources (physical, visual, oral) including the perspectives of others (parents, grandparents) to describe changes to daily life and the significance of people, places or events. They compare objects from the past and present. Students create a narrative about the past using terms and a range of sources.