This module addresses content descriptions and achievement standards across the Australian Curriculum learning areas of History: Year 10 and Health and Physical Education Years 7-10.

This module also makes connections with the following Cross-Curriculum Priorities:

It also aligns with the following General Capabilities:

This module includes material that supports students working towards Health and Physical Education Achievement Standard: Year 7-10 through which:

  • They analyse how stereotypes, respect, empathy, and valuing diversity influence relationships.
  • They evaluate how attitudes and beliefs about equality, respect, diversity, and inclusion influence the nature and quality of relationships.
  • They apply and evaluate leadership approaches, collaboration strategies and ethical behaviours across a range of movement contexts.

This module includes material that supports the teaching of Health and Physical Education – Year 7-10

examine how roles, decision-making, and levels of power, coercion and control within relationships can be influenced by gender stereotypes (AC9HP8P03)

Elaborations

  • Exploring scenarios in texts that demonstrate how gender inequality can arise from intergenerational patterns of inequity and unequal power in relationships.
  • Examining how gender roles and stereotypes can influence beliefs and decisions about self, friendships, sexual relationships, sexual behaviour, contraceptive use, substance use and future life plans.
  • Identifying those positive character attributes and strengths that are values regardless of gender.
  • Investigating strategies that have been successful in challenging harmful or limited stereotypes, attitudes, or practices.

investigate strategies that influence how communities value diversity and propose actions they can take to promote inclusion in their communities (AC9HP8P05)

Elaborations

  • Investigating how respecting diversity and challenging racism, sexism, ableism (disability discrimination) and homophobia influence individua and community health and wellbeing
  • Examining values and beliefs about cultural and social issues such as gender, race, violence, sexuality and ability, and how resisting stereotypes can help students be themselves.
  • Developing strategies to challenge narrow views of gender, race, violence, sexuality, gender diversity and ability to contribute to inclusive communities.
  • Researching how norms, stereotypes and prejudice are challenged in local, national, and global contexts.
  • Investigating events and strategies that value the contributions of First Nations Australians and strengthen relationships, such as Indigenous rounds in sporting codes and NAIDOC week.
  • Identifying examples of beliefs and cultural practices within, between and across cultural groups, including cultural groups from the Asian region, and describing how they have changes or remained the same over time.

analyse factors that shape identities and evaluate how individuals influence the identities of others (AC9HP10P01)

Elaborations

  • Examining how societal norms, stereotypes and expectations influence perceptions of movement competence.

investigate how gender equality and challenging assumptions about gender can prevent violence and abuse in relationships (AC9HP10P03)

Elaborations

  • Exploring scenarios in texts that demonstrate how gender inequality can arise from intergenerational patterns of inequity and unequal power in relationships and proposing strategies for challenging inequality in their communities.

propose strategies and actions individuals and groups can implement to challenge biases, stereotypes, prejudices, and discrimination, and promote inclusion in their communities (AC9HP10P05)

Elaborations

  • investigating how respecting diversity and challenging racism, sexism, ableism (disability discrimination) and homophobia influence individual and community health and wellbeing
  • examining values and beliefs about cultural and social issues such as gender, race, violence, sexuality and ability, and how resisting stereotypes can help students be themselves.
  • developing strategies to challenge narrow views of gender, race, violence, sexuality, gender diversity and ability to contribute to inclusive communities.
  • researching how norms, stereotypes and prejudice are challenged in local, national, and global contexts.
  • investigating events and strategies that value the contributions of First Nations Australians and strengthen relationships, such as Indigenous rounds in sporting codes and NAIDOC Week
  • identifying examples of beliefs and cultural practices within, between and across cultural groups, including cultural groups from the Asian region, and describing how they have changed or remained the same overtime.

This module includes material that supports students working towards History Achievement Standard: Year 10 through which:

  • They explain the causes and effects of events, developments, turning points or movements in 20th century Australia and internationally, leading up to and through World War II, and the post-war world.
  • They describe social, cultural, economic and/or political aspects, including international developments, related to the changes and continuities in Australian society over this historical period.
  • Students explain the role of significant ideas, individuals, groups, and institutions connected to the developments of this period and their influences on Australian and global history.
  • They evaluate perspectives of significant events and developments and explain the important factors that influence these perspectives.

This module includes material that supports the teaching of History - Year 10.

the causes of changes in perspectives, responses, beliefs, and values on migration that have influenced Australian society since 1945 (AC9HH10K08)

Elaborations

  • Discussing the contribution of migration to Australia’s changing identity as a nation; for example, the influence of different cultural and religious groups with the arrival of different waves of migrants, such as those from Europe in the 1950s-1960s, from different parts of Asia in the 1970s-2000s, from the Middle East in the 1980s-1990s, from India in the 1990s-2000s or from Africa in the 2000s.

the significant events, individuals, and groups in the women’s movement in Australia, and how they have changed the role and status of women (AC9HH10K12)

Elaborations

  • Examining the contributions of significant female leaders in Australian public life for example, political leaders and activists, social reformers, sporting identities, artists, and entertainers

changing social, political, economic, cultural, environmental, and technological conditions, and the causes of a major global influence in Australia (AC9HH10K17)

Elaborations

  • Investigating policies of multiculturalism since the 1970s and the concepts of cultural heritage and assimilation

the effects of global influences on Australia’s changing identity as a nation and its international relationships (AC9HH10K19)

Elaborations

  • Investigating Australia’s contribution to international popular culture in music, film, television and sport, and the recognition of Australian creative and performing arts internationally.