History 7-10 / Year 10 / Skills / Questioning and researching

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Curriculum content descriptions

develop and modify a range of historical questions about the past to inform historical inquiry (AC9HH10S01)

Elaborations
  • identifying, planning to investigate and investigating a specific historical question or issue
  • developing a range of questions about aspects of the past that require historical argument
  • modifying a key question or related questions in an inquiry, depending on the suitability of the sources available
  • determining whether a key question or related questions are too broad or narrow given the requirements of the investigation
General capabilities
  • Critical and creative thinking Critical and Creative Thinking
  • Literacy Literacy
ScOT terms

Historical inquiry,  Research questions

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  • TLF-IDA005182
  • Learning areasHumanities and Social Sciences; History
  • Year levels 10
  • Updated11/05/2026
  • AC version 8
  • AC version 9

This structured guide outlines a framework for students and community participants to research family or community history and share it through an exhibition or publication. Participants can use the guide to undertake research or choose elements of the framework to assist their own path of study.

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Australia's war history

  • TLF-IDA010121
  • Learning areasHumanities and Social Sciences; History
  • Year levels 9; 10
  • Updated07/05/2026
  • AC version 8
  • AC version 9

This learning module provides an overview of Australia’s war history, focusing primarily on the First and Second World Wars, with an emphasis on events in Europe and the Asia–Pacific regions. It provides a broad contextual overview of these conflicts while also including personal stories from a smaller group of individuals ...

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Year 10 history assessment - Rights and freedoms in Australia

  • TLF-IDM014420
  • Learning areasHumanities and Social Sciences; History
  • Year levels 10
  • Updated29/04/2026
  • AC version 8
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This is an assessment package that uses the Year 10 Australian Curriculum history achievement standard to gather evidence about how well students have demonstrated what they know, what they understand and what they can do in relation to civil rights in Australia. Students plan and deliver a spoken presentation about a civil ...

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Menzies and ANZUS

  • TLF-IDA009921
  • Learning areasHumanities and Social Sciences; History
  • Year levels 10
  • Updated29/04/2026
  • AC version 8
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Find classroom activities, a Quizlet, and a separate quiz focussing on the Cold War and the ANZUS treaty. These resources, created by the Menzies Institute, focus on the role of Robert Menzies during this period of Australia’s history.

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Human Rights and Genocide

  • TLF-IDA009616
  • Learning areasHumanities and Social Sciences; History; Civics and Citizenship
  • Year levels 10
  • Updated29/04/2026
  • AC version 8
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This resource provides information that helps students identify key human rights, as well as examples of these rights being respected or violated, or examples of violations facing consequences. Students also analyse the various challenges of prosecuting genocide. The resource includes slides, handouts with structured questions ...

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Being seen and heard in the 70s

  • TLF-IDA007708
  • Learning areasHumanities and Social Sciences; History; English
  • Year levels 10
  • Updated29/04/2026
  • AC version 8
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Via this resource, students will learn to think critically about the impact of the gay rights movement in Australia in the 1970s on current societal attitudes and beliefs about the LGBTIQ+ community.

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World War II (1939-1945): Student Research Guide

  • TLF-IDA006805
  • Learning areasHumanities and Social Sciences; History
  • Year levels 10
  • Updated29/04/2026
  • AC version 8
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Download a research guide on World War 2 history with tips to help students find primary and secondary sources for research tasks.

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HistoryEDge: video series

  • TLF-IDA006657
  • Learning areasHumanities and Social Sciences; History
  • Year levels 7; 8; 9; 10
  • Updated29/04/2026
  • AC version 8
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This resource is the complete video series, History EDge: How to do great historical inquiry projects, developed by the History Teachers’ Association of Victoria and featuring a range of teacher and academic presenters. Each of the 12 videos is approximately 10 minutes long and covers a different aspect of the historical ...

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The Environment Movement Defining Moments: 1960s–present

  • TLF-IDA006566
  • Learning areasHumanities and Social Sciences; History
  • Year levels 10
  • Updated29/04/2026
  • AC version 8
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This unit focuses on three key inquiry questions including the attitudes that have historically existed towards the environment, involvement of the Australian Government in various environmental issues and how environmental campaigns have influenced policies. It uses examples including the Franklin dam case, the Budj Bim ...

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Teaching controversial issues

  • TLF-IDA006188
  • Learning areasHumanities and Social Sciences; Geography 7-10; Civics and Citizenship; Geography; History
  • Year levels 5; 6; 7; 8; 9; 10
  • Updated29/04/2026
  • AC version 8
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This guide explores the nature of controversial issues, reasons for teaching controversial issues and the value of a global citizenship education approach. It provides guidance and classroom strategies for handling and exploring controversial issues, and also engaging with the topic of “fake news”.

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Global citizenship in the classroom

  • TLF-IDA006186
  • Learning areasHumanities and Social Sciences; History; Civics and Citizenship
  • Year levels 5; 6; 7; 8; 9; 10
  • Updated29/04/2026
  • AC version 8
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This framework is designed to help teachers build the key elements of global citizenship into units of work on a wide range of topics. Find a wide range of teaching strategies to support creating questions, interrogating images, creating an issues tree, creating ‘mysteries’, an opinion continuum and others.

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History skills

  • TLF-IDA003502
  • Learning areasHumanities and Social Sciences; History
  • Year levels 9; 10
  • Updated02/03/2026
  • AC version 8
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This unit consists of teacher support materials and resources for students relevant to the development of a historical inquiry. Students will develop skills of historical research in their community leading to the creation of a digital history resource. The videos provided in the student resources highlight how a variety ...

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Telling Stories: Symbols of a Life

  • TLF-IDA008327
  • Learning areasEnglish; Humanities and Social Sciences; History
  • Year levels 9; 10
  • Updated21/07/2025
  • AC version 8
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Students identify the narrative elements in a work of art and learn how artists use symbolic imagery to communicate the larger narrative of a person's life. Students then write their own narratives about an historic figure and use visual symbols to create an image about that person that communicates important events in ...

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Anticipation Guides

  • TLF-IDA007329
  • Learning areasHumanities and Social Sciences; History; Civics and Citizenship
  • Year levels 10
  • Updated03/04/2025
  • AC version 8
  • AC version 9

Get students thinking about the ideas and themes that they’ll encounter in a unit or a text. The Anticipation Guides strategy asks students to express their opinions about ideas before they encounter them in a text or unit of study. Use this strategy at the beginning of a unit or before engaging with a text. You can also ...

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Depth Study 4 – Rights and freedoms

  • TLF-IDA005201
  • Learning areasHumanities and Social Sciences; History
  • Year levels 10
  • Updated20/02/2025
  • AC version 8
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This is a series of lessons that guides students to complete an inquiry into the changing nature of rights and freedoms in Australia including the struggle of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples for rights and freedoms before 1965.

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History EDge episode 1: What is an historical inquiry project?

  • TLF-IDA006656
  • Learning areasHumanities and Social Sciences; History
  • Year levels 7; 8; 9; 10
  • Updated31/01/2025
  • AC version 8
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This video introduces students to the process of developing an historical inquiry project. It highlights the exciting possibilities of passion led research and emphasises the potential to do original research. The resource is part of the video series, History EDge: How to do great historical inquiry projects, developed ...

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History EDge episode 2: Developing an inquiry question

  • TLF-IDA006655
  • Learning areasHumanities and Social Sciences; History
  • Year levels 7; 8; 9; 10
  • Updated31/01/2025
  • AC version 8
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This video takes students through the stages of crafting the perfect inquiry question. It helps them consider the size, scope and feasibility of the inquiry and then to construct a detailed and nuanced research question. The resource is part of the video series, History EDge: How to do great historical inquiry projects, ...

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History EDge episode 3: How to begin your research

  • TLF-IDA006654
  • Learning areasHumanities and Social Sciences; History
  • Year levels 7; 8; 9; 10
  • Updated31/01/2025
  • AC version 8
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This video offers advice on how to find information to answer inquiry questions. It explains that searches can sometimes produce too much or too little information and suggests ways students can refine their questions or searches to address this. The resource is part of the video series, History EDge: How to do great historical ...

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Depth study 5a - Popular culture

  • TLF-IDA006567
  • Learning areasHumanities and Social Sciences; History
  • Year levels 10
  • Updated29/01/2025
  • AC version 8
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This download explores the nature of popular culture in Australia at the end of World War II, including music, film and sport. They research developments in popular culture in post-war Australia and their impact on society, including the introduction of television and rock 'n' roll. They then explore Australia's contribution ...

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ABC News: Sydney's Moon Festival, 1979

  • TLF-IDM017541
  • Learning areasHistory; Humanities and Social Sciences
  • Year levels 10
  • Updated25/10/2023
  • AC version 8
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Discover the activities that take place during the Moon Festival and why it is considered to be one of the most important festivals in the Chinese calendar. In this clip from 1979, ABC reporter Neil Ross attends the Moon Festival in and around Dixon Street and Hay Street, in the heart of Sydney's Chinatown.

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