Human Society & its environment

Stage 4

Year 7 students begin with the new Stage 4 Mandatory History course (NSW Syllabus for the Australian Curriculum). In this course students will study the following units:

Depth Study 1: Investigating the Past
Depth Study 2: The Mediterranean World - Egypt
Depth Study 3: The Asian World

Year 7 will then begin their Mandatory Geography studies in which they study:
Investigating the World
Global Environments

Year 8 students will continue stage 4 Mandatory Geography studies by engaging in these units:

• Global Change – students will study the changing nature of the world and responses to these changes

• Global Issues and the Role of Citizenship – students will study global geographical issues and appropriate methods of citizenship for their management

Year 8 students then complete their stage 4 Mandatory History course in which they study:

• Aboriginal and Indigenous People, Colonisation and Contact History – in which students develop an understanding of the impact of colonisation upon indigenous people
  
• The Shaping of the Modern World - students are encouraged to develop skills of historical inquiry by examining the motives and consequences of people’s actions in the past and exploring different interpretations of past events.
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Stage 5

Year 9 students will study Geography one semester and History the next semester.

In Geography students will study the following units:

• Investigating Australia’s Physical Environments

• Changing Australian Communities

In History students are studying the new Stage 5 Mandatory History course (NSW Syllabus for the Australian Curriculum). In this course students will study the following units:

• Depth Study: Progressive Ideas and Movements

• Core Study: Australians at War