Humanities & Social Sciences · Year 10

Lesson 1

Analyse how a resented peace treaty, a global depression and the rise of fascism led the world back into war only twenty years after 1918.

⏱ 20 min · 8 questions

Lesson 2

Examine how the fall of Singapore, the Kokoda campaign and a new alliance with the United States reshaped Australia’s war and its place in the world.

⏱ 20 min · 8 questions

Lesson 3

Investigate how total war reached into Australian homes through rationing, new work for women, government controls and the bombing of Darwin.

⏱ 18 min · 8 questions

Lesson 4

Understand how Nazi persecution of Jews escalated step by step into genocide, and why the Holocaust is studied and remembered.

⏱ 20 min · 8 questions

Lesson 5

Trace how the war ended in Europe and the Pacific, and assess its legacies — from the United Nations and human rights to post-war migration to Australia.

⏱ 20 min · 8 questions

Lesson 6

Classify the ways people change environments and trace the chains of cause and effect behind land degradation, biodiversity loss and climate change.

⏱ 18 min · 8 questions

Lesson 7

Compare the world views that shape how people value and use environments, including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander approaches to caring for Country.

⏱ 18 min · 8 questions

Lesson 8

Evaluate how laws, markets, technology and community action are used to manage environments, and test them against the principles of sustainability.

⏱ 20 min · 8 questions

Lesson 9

Compare Australia’s Westminster-style parliamentary democracy with the United States’ presidential system, from how leaders are chosen to how constitutions change.

⏱ 20 min · 8 questions

Lesson 10

Use three tests — how power is gained, used and limited — to tell democratic systems from authoritarian ones, including those that hold elections.

⏱ 18 min · 8 questions

Lesson 11

Calculate GDP and economic growth, separate real from nominal figures, and weigh up what these measures reveal and hide about an economy.

⏱ 20 min · 8 questions

Lesson 12

Distinguish material from non-material living standards and evaluate measures from GDP per capita to the Human Development Index and Measuring What Matters.

⏱ 18 min · 8 questions