Year 10 Subject Selection

Humanities

HISTORY: AUSTRALIA AT WAR 

Core - Semester 1

 

Content Strands

  • Historical Concepts and skills
  • Historical Knowledge

 

Course Overview

Australia at War [1914 – 1945]: World War ll

Students will study causes of WWII, why Australians enlisted to go to war including significant places where Australians fought and their experiences. Students will also study the impact and changes of the war on the Australian home front, our international relationships in the twentieth century with particular reference to Britain and the United States.

 

 

What Will Students Learn?

By the end of Level 10, students refer to significant events, the actions of individuals and groups, and beliefs and values to identify and evaluate the patterns of change and continuity over time. They analyse the causes and effects of events and developments and explain their significance. They explain the context for people’s actions in the past. Students evaluate the significance of events and analyse the developments from a range of perspectives. They evaluate the different interpretations of the past and recognise the evidence used to support these interpretations.

 

Students sequence events and developments within a chronological framework and identify relationships between events across different places and periods of time. They locate and select historical sources and identify their origin, purpose and content features. Students explain the context of these sources to identify motivations, values and attitudes. They compare and contrast historical sources and evaluate their accuracy, usefulness and reliability. Students analyse the different perspectives of people in the past and evaluate how these perspectives are influenced by the significant events, ideas, location, beliefs and values. They evaluate different historical interpretations and contested debates. Students construct and communicate an argument about the past using a range of reliable sources of evidence. In developing these texts and organising and presenting their arguments, they use historical terms and concepts, evidence identified in sources, and they use consistent referencing of these sources.

 

CIVICS AND CITIZENSHIP: GOVERNMENT & CITIZENS 

Core Elective - Semester 2

 

Content Strands

  • Government and Democracy
  • Laws and Citizenship
  • Diversity and Identity

 

Course Overview

Students evaluate features of Australia’s political system and identify and analyse the impact our vote will have on the Australian political landscape. You will also compare and evaluate key features and values of the systems of government and investigate what is Australia’s role and responsibilities in our world.

 

You will also look closely at the key principles of Australia’s justice system and analyse the role of Australia’s court system and its relevance to modern day Australia. You will also research a range of factors that influence and sustain democratic societies, like Australia, and find out how you can be an active and informed citizen in your society.

 

 

What Will Students Learn?

  • How does Parliament work?
  • How are laws made?
  • What is included in the legal system?
  • What role does Australia play in the international political environment?
  • What’s happening around the world?
  • What rights do I have as a citizen?
  • How does the law protect my rights?

BUSINESS/ACCOUNTING: MONEY, MARKETS AND MANAGEMENT 

Core Elective - Semester 2

 

Content Strands

  • The Humanities: Economics & Business
    • Resource Allocation and Making Choices
    • Consumer and Financial Literacy
    • The Business Environment

 

Course Overview

A practical introduction to Business, Accounting and some basic Economic principles. Students undertaking this unit will develop life-skills in areas of money management, tax and banking, before looking at the broader business environment.

Students will be provided with an overview of accounting and how as businesses grow and develop, they need to manage their finances in order to prosper and contribute to the economy.

 

 

What Will Students Learn?

  • How can I manage my personal finances?
  • What is credit?
  • What is a mortgage?
  • Why and how do I pay tax?
  • How do you start a business?
  • How do businesses manage their money?
  • How do businesses remain successful?
  • What role do businesses play in the economy?
  • What does it mean when I hear (insert business or economic term here) on the news?

GEOGRAPHY: PEOPLE AND PLANET 

Core Elective - Semester 2

 

Content Strands

  • Geographical concepts and skills
  • Geographical knowledge

 

Course Overview

An in-depth investigation into the geographical challenges shaping our current world. This subject is more than just naming countries and oceans on a map! The geography unit looks at both the natural environment AND the people living within it, to discover how one influences the other in terms of major challenges facing the human race (climate change, land degradation, poverty and wellbeing). Through using a range of technological and geographical skills to collect, analyse and interpret information, students can help answer key questions to prepare our planet for the future.

 

 

What Will Students Learn?

  • Why should I care about the natural world?
  • How am I and humankind impacting the world?
  • How is the landscape changing?
  • What is climate change?
  • What can be done to improve the world for the future?
  • What does it mean to have ‘wellbeing’?
  • How does  people’s location affect their wellbeing?
  • How to collect, analyse and interpret data using a range of technological and manual information techniques

HISTORY: MODERN AUSTRALIA

Core Elective - Semester 2

 

Content Strands

  • Historical Concepts and skills
  • Historical Knowledge

 

Course Overview

Inquire, challenge and investigate where we as Australians have come from and where are we headed as a nation. The struggle for the rights & freedoms of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people before 1965, as well as the methods used by civil rights activists to achieve change for their people both here and in the US will be investigated. Students will examine the steps we have made on the path to reconciliation. This unit will also look at Australia’s emerging multiculturalism as a result of global issues and events - and the impact this has on the films, music and entertainment culture we know and love today. 

 

 

What Will Students Learn?

  • What are the struggles for Indigenous and Torres Strait Islander people?
  • What was the US Civil Rights movement? How did this influence Australia’s rights movement?
  • How far have we come on the road to reconciliation?
  • What is the influence of music, film and television on popular culture in Australia?
  • What global issues and events have led Australia to become such a multicultural society?