Jacaranda Humanities Alive 7 Victorian Curriculum Third Edition (learnON & Print)

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Jacaranda Humanities Alive 7 Victorian Curriculum | Third Edition

A dynamic new title from Jacaranda that brings Humanities to life.

Aligned to the new Victorian Curriculum Version 2.0, Jacaranda Humanities Alive Victorian Curriculum 3e offers a fresh, flexible and fully integrated solution for Years 7-10 that empowers teachers and engages every student - no matter their learning style or starting point.

Key features:

1. Engaging, curriculum-aligned content

• Complete coverage of History, Geography, Civics & Citizenship, and Economics & Business
• Carefully structured to reflect the new Victorian Curriculum, with clear learning intentions, skills progression, and topic alignment

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Table of Contents

History

1 Historical concepts and skills

1.1 Overview
1.2 Historical concepts and skills
1.3 SkillBuilder - Historical questions
1.4 SkillBuilder - Chronology
1.5 SkillBuilder - Using historical sources
1.6 SkillBuilder - Continuity and change
1.7 SkillBuilder - Causes and consequences
1.8 SkillBuilder - Historical significance
1.9 SkillBuilder - Communicating
1.10 Review

2 Deep Time to modern era

2.1 Overview
2.2 How do we learn about Deep Time in Australia?
2.3 What is meant by Country and creation?
2.4 How has landscape and life changed?
2.5 Living with the megafauna
2.6 What is connection to Country and kin?
2.7 What beliefs and values shaped everyday life?
2.8 How did trade and technology develop in ancient Australia?
2.9 How was land managed?
2.10 How do we care for Country and Place?
2.11 How is connection to culture and Country continuing?
2.12 Inquiry - Should we return ancestral remains from museums?
2.13 Review

3 Ancient Egypt

3.1 Overview
3.2 How do we know about ancient Egypt?
3.3 Why was the river Nile so important?
3.4 What was Egyptian society like?
3.5 What did ancient Egyptians believe?
3.6 What is the truth about the pyramids?
3.7 Who were Tutankhamun, Akhenaten and Nefertiti?
3.8 What were the effects of war and trade?
3.9 Rameses II - Egypt's greatest pharaoh?
3.10 What should we thank the Egyptians for?
3.11 Inquiry - How have powerful women been recorded and treated in history?
3.12 Review

4 Ancient Greece

4.1 Overview
4.2 How do we know about ancient Greece?
4.3 Who were the Minoans and Mycenaeans?
4.4 What was the Greek 'Dark Age'?
4.5 How were Athens and Sparta governed?
4.6 What was life like in Sparta?
4.7 What was life like in Athens?
4.8 What do we know about Greek laws, myths, gods and oracles?
4.9 What were the Olympic Games?
4.10 How was Greece changed by wars?
4.11 What is the heritage of ancient Greece?
4.12 Inquiry - Did the Spartans really kill their weak babies?
4.13 Review

5 Ancient Rome

5.1 Overview
5.2 How do we know about ancient Rome?
5.3 How did Rome become so powerful?
5.4 How did the Roman Empire grow?
5.5 Why was the Roman army so successful?
5.6 How was Rome ruled?
5.7 How brutal was Roman slavery?
5.8 What was it like to live in the Roman Empire?
5.9 What did ancient Romans believe about death?
5.10 How did ancient Roman laws and religion change?
5.11 Why did the Roman Empire fall?
5.12 What is Rome's heritage?
5.13 Inquiry - How bad was Emperor Nero?
5.14 Review

6 Ancient India

6.1 Overview
6.2 How do we know about ancient India?
6.3 What is the geography of India?
6.4 What are the lost cities of the Indus Valley?
6.5 New people, new ideas
6.6 What was significant about the Mauryan Empire?
6.7 Who was Ashoka the Great?
6.8 What was the social structure of ancient India?
6.9 Inquiry - What was behind Ashoka the Great's change in leadership style?
6.10 Review

7 Ancient China

7.1 Overview
7.2 How do we know about ancient China?
7.3 How did China's civilisation begin?
7.4 What were life and death like in ancient China?
7.5 How did China's civilisation affect its environment?
7.6 What were the influences of Confucianism, religions and laws?
7.7 How did the first emperor change China?
7.8 Why did the Han dynasty rise and fall?
7.9 What is the heritage of ancient China?
7.10 Inquiry - How should we judge the legacy of Qin Shihuang?
7.11 Review

Geography

8 Geographical concepts and skills

8.1 Overview
8.2 Geographical concepts and skills
8.3 SkillBuilder - Geographical inquiry
8.4 SkillBuilder - Concluding and decision-making
8.5 SkillBuilder - Communicating
8.6 SkillBuilder - Using topographic maps
8.7 SkillBuilder - Interpreting topological maps
8.8 SkillBuilder - Using alphanumeric grid references
8.9 SkillBuilder - Drawing a climate graph
8.10 SkillBuilder - Creating and analysing overlay maps
8.11 SkillBuilder - Annotating a photograph
8.12 SkillBuilder - Interpreting diagrams
8.13 SkillBuilder - Cardinal points - wind roses
8.14 SkillBuilder - Creating a concept diagram
8.15 SkillBuilder - Understanding satellite images
8.16 Review

9 Water in the world

9.1 Overview
9.2 What type of resource is water?
9.3 How does groundwater connect people and place?
9.4 Why is water supply variable?
9.5 Investigating topographic maps - The value of water in Noosa
9.6 Does everyone have enough water?
9.7 How do we overcome water scarcity?
9.8 What are the causes and impacts of hydrometeorological hazards?
9.9 What are the causes and effects of droughts and flooding rain?
9.10 Why does the wind blow?
9.11 What are the causes and impacts of extreme weather?
9.12 What are the causes and impacts of cyclones?
9.13 Inquiry - What is the water quality of a local waterway?
9.14 Review

10 Place and liveability

10.1 Overview
10.2 What is liveability?
10.3 What makes a place liveable?
10.4 Where are the most liveable cities?
10.5 What is it like to live in remote places?
10.6 Country vs city living
10.7 What makes a liveable and non-liveable city?
10.8 What makes communities liveable?
10.9 What is connection to Country?
10.10 Investigating topographic maps - Liveability in Badu and Moa
10.11 How do places change?
10.12 What is the connection between liveability and sustainable living?
10.13 How can liveability be improved?
10.14 Inquiry - What are the characteristics of liveable cities?
10.15 Review

Civics and Citizenship

11 Civics and Citizenship concepts and skills

11.1 Overview
11.2 Civics and Citizenship concepts and skills
11.3 SkillBuilder - Investigating contemporary civics and citizenship issues
11.4 SkillBuilder - Evaluating democratic institutions and systems
11.5 SkillBuilder - Participating in civic processes
11.6 SkillBuilder - Communicating
11.7 Review

12 Government and democracy

12.1 Overview
12.2 How do political parties shape Australia's democracy?
12.3 How does Australia's parliamentary system work?
12.4 How do state and territory parliaments work?
12.5 Why do we share power between different levels of government?
12.6 How can citizens participate in Australia's democracy?
12.7 How do Australia's institutions protect our democratic freedoms?
12.8 Inquiry - How do we share the power?
12.9 Review

13 Laws and citizens

13.1 Overview
13.2 What are the principles of justice?
13.3 Where did our justice system come from?
13.4 How do Australian courts work?
13.5 What is a fair trial?
13.6 Can everyone access justice?
13.7 Inquiry - Can community action make a difference?
13.8 Review

14 Citizenship, diversity and identity

14.1 Overview
14.2 Australia's diverse society
14.3 What role does religion play in Australian society?
14.4 How do we promote cohesion in Australian society?
14.5 Inquiry - Will the Religious Discrimination Bill protect us?
14.6 Review

Economics and Business

15 Economics and Business concepts and skills

15.1 Overview
15.2 Economics and Business concepts and skills
15.3 SkillBuilder - Investigating
15.4 SkillBuilder - Interpreting and analysing data and information
15.5 SkillBuilder - Evaluating, concluding and decision-making
15.6 SkillBuilder - Communicating
15.7 Review

16 How markets work

16.1 Overview
16.2 What are our needs and wants?
16.3 What types of businesses exist?
16.4 What is economic sustainability?
16.5 What is meant by demand and supply in the market?
16.6 What are your rights as a consumer?
16.7 What responsibilities do businesses, producers and government have to you?
16.8 Inquiry - How is Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples economics sustainable?
16.9 Review

17 Working for a living

17.1 Overview
17.2 Why do people work?
17.3 What types of work are there?
17.4 How do you earn an income?
17.5 What is the role of entrepreneurs?
17.6 What responsibilities come with working?
17.7 How are Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples entrepreneurs?
17.8 Inquiry - Who are the innovators and entrepreneurs?
17.9 Review

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