Year 9 Humanities

Course Description

The Humanities involves the study of human societies and environments, people and their cultures in the past and the present. The Humanities provide a framework for developing in students the key ideas and concepts that enable them to understand the way in which people and societies have organised their world under particular conditions and made meaning of it.

The Humanities take as their subject matter human behaviour. They provide unique ways to understand how and why groups of people have settled where they have, organised their societies, developed means of generating and distributing wealth, developed codes, laws and belief systems, related to other groups of people and interacted with their physical environment.

The Humanities encourage use of research skills and inquiry processes. Students learn to plan an investigation and ask key questions. They question and analyse a range of data and sources including artefacts, photographs, maps, stories, special events, interviews, site visits and electronic media. They form conclusions supported by evidence and present information in a variety of ways.

Structure of the Humanities

The Humanities Discipline in Year 9 is organised into four Domains:

History (Industrial Revolution and World War One)

Geography (Biomes and Food Security)

Economics & Business (Scarcity and economic principles)

Civics & Citizenship (Australia's democracy and Australia's global commitments)

Students participate in a range of learning activities that engage the thinking curriculum and VicVELS including the following;-

> maintaining a workbook - an orderly record of class work;

> set tasks - a range of individual and/or group activities performed in the classroom, and/or homework setting;

> research activities - gathering, analysing and evaluating information from a variety of resources on a topic or issue;

> report presentation - student preparation of clear reports in an oral, visual and/or written form;

> cooperative learning activities;

> skills based excercises

SKILLS:

Geographic skills including mapping
Active citizenship
Developing ability to research

KNOWLEDGE AND UNDERSTANDING:

Learning activities that relate to the acquiring and exploring of knowledge within the Humanities Domain.

Processes & techniques to develop ideas and form opinions
Explore how to compose, analyse and evaluate arguments and reasoning
Critical reflection to better understand perspectives & actions of individual & groups
Identify ethical problems & concepts concerned with ethical outcomes (refugee crisis)

Assessment tasks

The learning activities, formal and informal assessment, developmental tasks and common assessment tasks (CATs) that assess student comprehension throughout the year have been designed to provide students with opportunities to demonstrate their skills, knowledge, and understanding of Humanities.

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