Year 9 Subject Selection

Humanities

HISTORY

History Content Strands

  • Historical Concepts and Skills 
  • Historical Knowledge 

History Learning Focus

The underpinning concepts and skills of sequencing chronology, using historical sources as evidence, identifying continuity and change, analysing causes and effect and determining historical significance are explicit in this structure.

In the History curriculum, students have the opportunity to develop historical understanding through the application of the following historical concepts and skills:

  • sequencing chronology
  • using historical sources as evidence
  • identifying continuity and change
  • analysing causes and effect,  and
  • determining historical significance.

Topics covered for History include:

  • The Industrial Revolution
  • Australia & Asia

Australia at War (World War 1 1914 – 1918)

 

CIVICS & CITIZENSHIP

Civics & Citizenship - Content Strands

These concepts and skills are fundamental in giving the discipline of history its structure.

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

 

In studying civics and citizenship students will develop knowledge and understanding of Australia's representative democracy and the key institutions, processes, and roles people play in Australia’s political and legal systems. Emphasis is placed on Australia's federal system of government, derived from the Westminster system, and the liberal democratic values that underpin it such as freedom, equality and the rule of law. The curriculum explores how the people, as citizens, choose their governments, how the system safeguards democracy by vesting people with civic rights and responsibilities, how laws and the legal system protect people’s rights and how individuals and groups can influence civic life.

 

GEOGRAPHY

Content Strands

Geography Skills and Concepts: 

  • Place, space and interconnections 
  • Data & Information

 

Geography Knowledge:

  • Biomes & food
  • Geographies of interconnections
  • Environmental change & management

 

The above strands are studied in depth based on the following key questions:

  • What are the causes and consequences of change in places and environments?
  • What are the future implications of changes to places and environments and what management options exist for sustaining human and natural systems into the future?
  • Why are interconnections and interdependencies important for the future of places and environments?
  • How can the spatial variation between places and changes in environments be explained?