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• VCHHC001

  Recognise personally significant objects from childhood and now

  Elaborations

  • viewing various multimodal texts and stories, pictures and images that identify personally significant objects of their own
  • exploring and reacting to objects associated with personally significant events and times of their life
  • reacting to personally significant objects

  VCHHC001 | The Humanities | History | Level A | Historical Concepts and Skills | Chronology

• VCHHK048

  Similarities and differences between their life and the life of their parents and grandparents

  Elaborations

  • experiencing, hearing and viewing texts, images and artefacts related to their life and the life of their parents and grandparents
  • comparing and sorting artefacts related to everyday life to see what is the same and different from their own, their parents and their grandparents life

  VCHHK048 | The Humanities | History | Level D | Historical Knowledge | Personal histories

• VCEBR021

  Identify and explain the indicators of economic performance and examine how Australia’s economy is performing

  Elaborations

  • identifying and explaining indicators of economic performance such as economic growth rates, unemployment rates, inflation rates, sustainability indexes, business confidence, human development index, liveability, and the world happiness report
  • investigating the performance of the Australian economy using key indicators to form a conclusion

  VCEBR021 | The Humanities | Economics and Business | Levels 9 and 10 | Resource Allocation and Making Choices

• VCHHK146

  Significant places where Australians fought and their perspectives and experiences in these places

  Elaborations

  • explaining the significance of Kokoda as the battle that halted the Japanese advance on Port Moresby and helped foster the Anzac legend
  • using historical perspectives comparing the experiences of Australians during World War II, such as Prisoners of War (POWs), the Battle of Britain, Kokoda, the Fall of Singapore

  VCHHK146 | The Humanities | History | Levels 9 and 10 | Historical Knowledge | The modern world and Australia | Australia at war (1914 – 1945): World War II

• VCGGC131

  Select, organise and represent data and information in different forms, including by constructing special purpose maps that conform to cartographic conventions, using digital and spatial technologies as appropriate

  Elaborations

  • creating a diagram to illustrate the flows of nutrients and energy within a biome, and the alterations to these flows produced by agriculture
  • developing a table to show the types of challenges to food production in Australia compared to other areas of the world, or the ways that places and people are interconnected through trade
  • using scatter plots of data for countries or smaller areas to investigate the relationship between two variables, such as per capita income and life expectancy for countries, and to identify anomalies
  • creating a map to show the relationship between biomes and world food production, using a spatial technologies application
  • constructing and interpreting choropleth maps to show patterns of human wellbeing at a local scale

  VCGGC131 | The Humanities | Geography | Levels 9 and 10 | Geographical Concepts and Skills | Data and information

• Civics and Citizenship: Levels 9 and 10 description

  The Level 9 and 10 curriculum builds students’ understanding of Australia’s political system and how it enables change. Students examine the ways political parties, interest groups, media and individuals influence government and decision-making processes. They compare Australia’s system of government...

  Level description | The Humanities | Civics and Citizenship

• The Humanities | Geography: Structure

  Geography is organised by two strands: Geographical Concepts and Skills and Geographical Knowledge.

  Strand: Geographical Concepts and Skills

  Sub-strands
  Place, space and interconnection
  Data and information

  Strand: Geographical Knowledge

  Level	Sub-strands
  Levels A – D Foundation – Level 2	Places a...

  Overview material | Geography

• 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

• VCHHC127

  Analyse the long term causes, short term triggers and the intended and unintended effects of significant events and developments

  Elaborations

  • using sources of evidence (perspectives and interpretations) identify causes and effects of the civil rights movement
  • using chronologies to observe and identify long term causes, short term triggers, turning points, short and long term effects of World War I and World War II
  • organising causes and effects of European settlement into a concept map
  • differentiating between intended and unintended effects.
  • using graphic organisers such as concept maps, causal spider webs, fishbone or ripple effect charts
  • analysing the multiplicity of causes and effects that may have a varying of influence and rank according to their significance and justify ranking
  • constructing an explanation using sources of evidence to support the analysis of a significant individual, event and/or cultural achievement

  VCHHC127 | The Humanities | History | Levels 9 and 10 | Historical Concepts and Skills | Cause and effect

• VCHHK135

  Significant events and influencing ideas in the development of the society, including different perspectives of the events at the time and different historical interpretations and debates

  Elaborations

  • Australia
    • discussing the rise of nationalist sentiment in Australia in the mid to late nineteenth century
    • sequencing the key events and ideas in the development of Australian self-government and democracy, including women's voting rights
    • explaining the factors that contributed to federation and the development of democracy in Australia, including defence concerns, the 1890s depression, nationalist ideals, egalitarianism, the Westminster system
  • Asia
    • explaining the position of the Asian society in relation to other nations in the world around the turn of the twentieth century, including the influence of key ideas such as nationalism
    • investigating the fall of the Shogun and the Meiji Restoration, rise of nationalism, militarism and expansionism, confrontation between Japan and China, and with Western powers, for example, the Russo-Japanese war, and the emergence of Japan as a major world power
    • describing the activities of Christian missionaries in China and the outcomes of the Boxer Rebellion
    • analysing the significant causes and effects of the Indian Great Rebellion 1857

  VCHHK135 | The Humanities | History | Levels 9 and 10 | Historical Knowledge | The making of the modern world | Australia and Asia

• VCHHC014

  Recognise significant events during their lifetime

  Elaborations

  • viewing stories of significant events and activities
  • identifying objects in photos that represent major artefacts for that significant event, for example cake, flag
  • experiencing the use of chronological language to discuss events and activities such as ‘finish’, ‘next’, ‘then’, ‘past’, ‘present’, ‘finished’, ‘now’, ‘then’

  VCHHC014 | The Humanities | History | Level B | Historical Concepts and Skills | Chronology

• VCHHC015

  Explore a range of sources that show families over time

  Elaborations

  • explore photos, film, objects and stories about their family past and present
  • assisting to create and view various multimedia texts related to them, their family, recent events
  • experiencing a range of sensory texts that explore recent events and the associated objects and elements
  • exploring objects and elements used during events, such as balloons, streamers, candles etc.

  VCHHC015 | The Humanities | History | Level B | Historical Concepts and Skills | Historical sources as evidence

• VCHHC017

  Explore features of objects from the past and present

  Elaborations

  • exploring personally significant toys and objects from their past and present
  • sharing and assisting to sort significant toys and objects from their past and present
  • viewing texts or slideshow presenting significant objects in chronological order from a person’s past and present

  VCHHC017 | The Humanities | History | Level B | Historical Concepts and Skills | Continuity and change

• VCGGK120

  Spiritual, cultural and aesthetic value of landscapes and landforms for people, including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, that influence the significance of places, and ways of protecting significant landscapes

  Elaborations

  • discussing the significance of landscapes in literature, song/music, film, art and identity
  • analysing the role of landforms and landscapes in tourism. For example, Uluru in Australia or the Grand Canyon in the USA
  • exploring the multilayered meanings (material, cultural and spiritual wellbeing) associated with landscapes and landforms by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples
  • identifying different views about the recreational, psychological, aesthetic and spiritual value of particular environments and about the nature and extent of their protection, and discussing how this links to ideas about environmental sustainability
  • investigating a significant landscape that is threatened by human activities and developing a proposal for the future of the landscape that takes account of the views of the diverse groups, including Traditional Owners, with an interest in its use or protection

  VCGGK120 | The Humanities | Geography | Levels 7 and 8 | Geographical Knowledge | Landforms and landscapes

• VCHHC124

  Analyse the different perspectives of people in the past and evaluate how these perspectives are influenced by significant events, ideas, location, beliefs and values

  Elaborations

  • using a range of sources to identify different perspectives and construct an argument about the experiences of people at the time
  • examining different accounts of eighteenth-century journey to Australia, for example, ships’ logs, diaries, recorded testimonies of convicts and officers, both male and female, and explaining the variations in perspective which can lead to different historical interpretations
  • identifying in a range of perspectives the absent or hidden voices and suggest reasons for this
  • analysing the views of both men and women at different times regarding gender equality in Australia and explaining how these views might reflect changing values and attitudes
  • explaining the enthusiasm of young people for the music tours and the opposition of older generations, as reflected in the sources

  VCHHC124 | The Humanities | History | Levels 9 and 10 | Historical Concepts and Skills | Historical sources as evidence

• VCCCL032

  Explain how Australia’s international legal obligations shape Australian law and government policies, including in relation to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples

  Elaborations

  • listing some of the international agreements Australia has ratified and identifying examples of how each one might shape government policies and laws, for example the protection of World Heritage areas
  • researching the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination, Convention on the Rights of the Child, and the Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples
  • identifying how international conventions and declarations have shaped Australian government policies with regard to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples

  VCCCL032 | The Humanities | Civics and Citizenship | Levels 9 and 10 | Laws and Citizens

• VCGGC072

  Identify and describe locations and spatial distributions and patterns

  Elaborations

  • using geographical tools, such as a globe, wall map or electronic atlas, to locate the states and territories, major cities and regional centres in their own state, and then naming them
  • identifying the pattern of population distribution across Australia
  • identifying and locating examples of the main climatic types in Australia and the world, for example, equatorial, tropical, arid, semi-arid, temperate and Mediterranean

  VCGGC072 | The Humanities | Geography | Levels 3 and 4 | Geographical Concepts and Skills | Place, space and interconnection

• VCGGC103

  Select and represent data and information in different forms, including by constructing appropriate maps at different scales that conform to cartographic conventions, using digital and spatial technologies as appropriate

  Elaborations

  • creating an annotated diagram to demonstrate how water flows through the environment and connects places, or the influence of environmental quality on the liveability of places
  • constructing tables and graphs of demographic or economic data for Australia or China
  • creating annotated diagrams to show a landscape and its landforms
  • creating a map to show the spatial distribution and patterns of liveability, using computer mapping software
  • using a satellite image to construct a map to show the areas affected by a hydrological hazard, in Australia and another region of the world

  VCGGC103 | The Humanities | Geography | Levels 7 and 8 | Geographical Concepts and Skills | Data and information

• VCGGC127

  Predict changes in the characteristics of places over time and identify the possible implications of change for the future

  Elaborations

  • researching the potential of agricultural production in northern Australia
  • discussing the effects of people's cultural and leisure choices on towns and cities or heritage areas. For example, predicting how changing choices may affect these and other places in the future
  • evaluating the effects of international demand for food products on biodiversity throughout the world, in the places of their production
  • identifying trends in human wellbeing in countries over time

  VCGGC127 | The Humanities | Geography | Levels 9 and 10 | Geographical Concepts and Skills | Place, space and interconnection

• The Humanities | Economics and Business: Structure

  Economics and Business is organised by six strands. Throughout these strands the study of economics and business issues, events and business case studies form an integral component of the curriculum. The content is intended to be taught through relevant contexts, which will help students make...

  Overview material | Economics and Business