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Humanities - History and Geography
Humanities - History and Geography
Year 10 History (Code: HIST10)
Learning Area Leader: Ms Ryan
Major Focus - ‘Australians in WWII (1919-1945)’ and ‘Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples’ rights and freedoms (1938–present)
Description
In Year 10 History students evaluate the significant events, developments and ideas that shaped the modern world, World War II and the Holocaust, and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples’ rights and freedoms over the period between the 20th and the early 21st century through two units:
Investigation: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples’ rights and freedoms (1938–present)
This unit examines the struggles and achievements of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples in their pursuit of rights and freedoms from 1938 onwards, exploring key events, movements, and their ongoing impact on Australian society.
Investigation: Australians at war (1919-45)
This unit focuses on Australia's involvement in World War II, exploring the experiences of Australians on the home front and various battlefronts, and analysing the significant social, economic, and political changes the war brought to the nation. Students also learn about the Holocaust as a major atrocity of this period.
In this subject, students will apply the following historical concepts and skills to the historical knowledge and understanding:
• Historical questions
• Chronology
• Using historical sources
• Continuity and change
• Causes of Consequences
• Historical Significance
• Communicating
Assessment
• Source Analysis
• Semester Examination
Year 10 Geography (Code: GEOG10)
Learning Area Leader: Ms Ryan
Major Focus - Environmental change
Description
In Year 10 Geography students conceptual thinking will be developed through two units: Environmental change and management and Geographies of human wellbeing.
Environmental change and management examines the functions of the environment that support people’s lives and wellbeing, as well as ways of assessing the sustainability of these functions. Students identify environmental changes that threaten sustainability and therefore need management. Students examine the impacts of people’s attitudes, values and ways of thinking on their views of environment management, first generally and then through the ways of thinking and practices of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples. Students have the opportunity to examine the causes and consequences of a change within the context of a specific environmental issue and the strategies to manage the change, including the application of geographical concepts and methods.
Geographies of human wellbeing focuses on the question of human wellbeing, how it may differ from the concept of development and how it can be measured and mapped. Students consider the global pattern of wellbeing and then examine the spatial distribution of wellbeing within a country at a regional scale, for example using India (a country of growing importance to Australia) as the case study. Students examine the spatial distribution of wellbeing among Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples. This is extended by a study of wellbeing in Australia at the scale of the students’ city or rural area. Finally, students investigate programs to raise human wellbeing in Australia and overseas, and the role of the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals.
In this subject, students will apply the following geographical skills to the geographical knowledge and understanding:
• Geographical inquiry
• Concluding and decision-making
• Communicating
Assessment
• Data Analysis
• Research Assignments
• Semester Examination
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