ENGLISH |
Code |
Content Description |
Human Rights Example |
ACELA1517 |
- Understand the uses of objective and subjective language and bias.
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- Differentiating between fact and opinion in an editorial on a human rights issue.
- Developing a factual recount of the experiences of child asylum seekers.
- Developing an informative text of a human rights issue in your local community.
- Developing an editorial/ persuasive text arguing that there should be better access to buildings for people with disability.
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ACELT1613 |
- Make connections between students’ own experiences and those of characters and events represented in texts drawn from different historical, social and cultural contexts.
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- Identifying the influence that different historical, social and cultural experiences have on the meaning we make from texts and the attitudes we may develop towards characters, actions and events relating to human rights including gender, culture, nationality, socio-economic background, sexual orientation and religion.
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ACELY1709 |
- Participate in and contribute to discussions, clarifying and interrogating ideas, developing and supporting arguments, sharing and evaluating information, experiences and opinions.
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- Exploring personal reasons for acceptance or rejection of opinions about human rights issues such as children in immigration detention.
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ACELY1714 |
- Plan, draft and publish imaginative, informative and persuasive texts, choosing and experimenting with text structures, language features, images and digital resources appropriate to purpose and audience.
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- Creating informative texts about children’s rights for different audiences.
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HISTORY |
Code |
Content Description |
Human Rights Example |
ACHHK114 |
- Experiences of Australian democracy and citizenship, including the status and rights of Aboriginal people and/or Torres Strait Islanders, migrants, women, and children.
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- Identifying how the lack of citizenship rights for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples contributed to other human rights abuses including the forcible removal of children from their families leading to the Stolen Generations, poor pay and working conditions, lack of property rights and voting rights.
- Investigating women’s experience of democracy and citizenship, equal pay, the bar on married women working and ongoing issues relating to the human rights of women including violence against women and the impact of the Sex Discrimination Act 1984.
- Investigating the experiences of democracy and citizenship of lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans and intersex people including historical discrimination and new legal protections included in the Sex Discrimination Act 1984.
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ACHHK115 |
- Stories of groups of people who migrated to Australia (including from ONE Asian country) and the reasons they migrated, such as World War II and Australian migration programs since the war.
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- Investigating why child refugees migrated to Australia.
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ACHHK116 |
- The contribution of individuals and groups, including Aboriginal people and/or Torres Strait Islanders and migrants, to the development of Australian society, for example in areas such as the economy, education, science, the arts, sport.
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- Investigating the role of notable Australians who have won the Australian Human Rights medal.
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ACHHS119 |
- Identify questions to inform an historical inquiry.
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- Developing key questions about when different groups such as women, migrants and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, people with a disability, gay and lesbian people had their right to vote recognised and when these groups were first elected into parliament.
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ACHHS120 |
- Identify and locate a range of relevant sources.
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- Locating material relevant to a human rights inquiry conducted by the Australian Human Rights Commission.
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ACHHS121 |
- Locate information related to inquiry questions in a range of sources.
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- Finding historical information from primary and secondary sources about the rights of women and fair pay, the Stolen Generations (such as Bringing them Home: The Stolen Children Report), and racism experienced by migrants.
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ACHHS122 |
- Compare information from a range of sources.
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- Exploring the website of a non-government advocacy organisation about the rights and experiences of refugees.
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ACHHS123 |
- Identify points of view in the past and present.
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- Analysing the language used in news stories about people who support the right to freedom of expression.
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ACHHS124 |
- Develop texts, particularly narratives and descriptions, which incorporate source materials.
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- Composing historical texts about a human rights issue such as the different rights that women have fought for.
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ACHHS125 |
- Use a range of communication forms (oral, graphic, written) and digital technologies.
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- Creating a digital story about a historical human rights event.
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GEOGRAPHY |
Code |
Content Description |
Human Rights Example |
ACHGK031 |
- The location of the major countries of the Asia region in relation to Australia and the geographical diversity within the region.
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- Identifying that different groups within a country can have different life expectancies and this can be impacted by the level of human rights protections they have.
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ACHGK032 |
- Differences in the economic, demographic and social characteristics between countries across the world.
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- Investigating that people who have a low per capita income may have poorer health.
- Identifying the concept of environmental justice and how nations that consume the least are often most impacted by environmental problems such as climate change.
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ACHGK033 |
- The world’s cultural diversity, including that of its indigenous peoples.
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- Identifying examples of the lives of Indigenous peoples such as Maori language schools in Aotearoa New Zealand.
- Exploring the Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples for an overview of the diversity of rights that Indigenous peoples have such as the right to speak their own language and practice their own culture.
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ACHGK034 |
- Significant events that connect people and places throughout the world.
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- Investigating the impact of natural disasters on human rights such as loss of life, housing, work and clean food and water.
- Exploring how aid can help reduce poverty through promotion of education and health.
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ACHGK035 |
- The various connections Australia has with other countries and how these connections change people and places.
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- Exploring how special consideration is often given to gender equality and the rights of vulnerable groups such as children in the implementation of development projects.
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ACHGK036 |
- The effects that people’s connections with, and proximity to, places throughout the world have on shaping their awareness and opinion of those places.
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- Identifying factors such as the media, significant known events, proximity to places and personal relationships that influence people’s awareness and opinions of human rights issues.
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ACHGS040 |
- Develop geographical questions to investigate and plan an inquiry.
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- Planning an investigation about how the Boxing Day Tsunami affected the human rights of people from different locations and focus on how it affected children’s access to education.
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ACHGS041 |
- Collect and record relevant geographical data and information, using ethical protocols, from primary and secondary sources, for example, people, maps, plans, photographs, satellite images, statistical sources and reports.
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- Identifying how ethical research methods and protocols are based on human rights.
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ACHGS044 |
- Interpret geographical data and other information using digital and spatial technologies as appropriate, and identify spatial distributions, patterns and trends, and infer relationships to draw conclusions.
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- Exploring cause and effect relationships between health, discrimination and poverty.
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ACHGS045 |
- Present findings and ideas in a range of communication forms, for example, written, oral, graphic, tabular, visual and maps, using geographical terminology and digital technologies as appropriate.
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- Developing a report on a human rights situation or event such as homelessness in Australia or gender inequality.
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ACHGS046 |
- Reflect on their learning to propose individual and collective action in response to a contemporary geographical challenge and describe the expected effects of their proposal on different groups of people.
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- Developing a plan of action to improve children’s rights, using the Convention on the Rights of the Child.
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SCIENCE |
Code |
Content Description |
Human Rights Example |
ACSSU096 |
- Sudden geological changes or extreme weather conditions can affect Earth’s surface.
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- Investigating how geological events such as earthquakes, eruptions and tsunamis can impact human rights and exploring how scientific understanding can assist in minimising long and short term impacts on peoples’ human rights.
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ACSHE220 |
- Scientific knowledge is used to inform personal and community decisions.
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- Investigating how understanding catastrophic natural events can help with planning to protect human rights and minimise the impact on those most vulnerable.
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ACSHE099 |
- Important contributions to the advancement of science have been made by people from a range of cultures.
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- Investigating how people from a range of cultures have used sustainable sources of energy, for example solar power in remote communities.
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ACSHE100 |
- Scientific understandings, discoveries and inventions are used to solve problems that directly affect peoples’ lives.
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- Investigating how electrical appliances have been used to help people with disability such as screen readers for people with vision impairments.
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MATHS |
Code |
Content Description |
Human Rights Example |
ACMSP147 |
- Interpret and compare a range of data displays, including side-by-side column graphs for two categorical variables.
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- Comparing and commenting on the usefulness of data representation of different student-generated diagrams, tables and graphs representing information about student diversity.
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ACMSP148 |
- Interpret secondary data presented in digital media and elsewhere.
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- Investigating data representation in the media about a topical human rights issue such as bullying, discuss what they illustrate and the messages the people who created them might want to convey.
- Identifying potentially misleading data representations in the media about a topical human rights issues such as homelessness.
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