Humanities & Social Sciences · Year 9

Lesson 1

Weigh up the resources, money and farming changes that made Britain the first industrial nation in the 1700s.

⏱ 20 min · 8 questions

Lesson 2

Trace how a chain of textile machines and James Watt’s steam engine transformed how goods were made.

⏱ 18 min · 8 questions

Lesson 3

Use evidence from inquiries and reformers to investigate working conditions in early mills and mines, and judge how reliable that evidence is.

⏱ 20 min · 8 questions

Lesson 4

Investigate overcrowding, disease and protest in industrial cities, and how public health reform and workers’ movements responded.

⏱ 20 min · 8 questions

Lesson 5

Evaluate the short- and long-term effects of the Industrial Revolution, from living standards to Australia’s economy and the global climate.

⏱ 20 min · 8 questions

Lesson 6

Identify the world’s major biomes and explain how climate, soil and vegetation work together to define each one.

⏱ 18 min · 8 questions

Lesson 7

Explore how each biome is used to grow food, and learn to read the maps geographers use to show global food production.

⏱ 18 min · 8 questions

Lesson 8

Examine how land clearing, irrigation and farming change biomes, and the environmental chain reactions that follow.

⏱ 20 min · 8 questions

Lesson 9

Understand what political parties do in Australia and how a party or coalition forms government in the House of Representatives.

⏱ 18 min · 8 questions

Lesson 10

Discover how proportional representation in the Senate gives minor parties and independents real power over which laws pass.

⏱ 20 min · 8 questions

Lesson 11

Map Australia’s economic links with the world through trade in goods and services, foreign investment and international visitors.

⏱ 18 min · 8 questions

Lesson 12

Use comparative advantage to explain specialisation, and interpret data on Australia’s major exports and trading partners.

⏱ 20 min · 8 questions

Lesson 13

Examine the scale and causes of the transatlantic slave trade and how a mass movement worked to abolish it.

⏱ 20 min · 8 questions

Lesson 14

Investigate why Britain shipped about 162,000 convicts to Australia and what their lives were like, using historical sources.

⏱ 20 min · 8 questions

Lesson 15

Analyse the push and pull factors that drew hundreds of thousands of free settlers to the Australian colonies in the 1800s.

⏱ 18 min · 8 questions

Lesson 16

Compare the experiences of Chinese, Irish, German and Pacific Islander migrants in the colonies, including the racism Chinese miners faced on the goldfields.

⏱ 20 min · 8 questions

Lesson 17

Investigate how colonisation brought dispossession, disease and frontier violence to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples, and how they resisted and endured.

⏱ 20 min · 8 questions

Lesson 18

Investigate how farming degrades soil, uses water and releases emissions, and what Australian farmers are doing about it.

⏱ 18 min · 8 questions

Lesson 19

Define food security using its four dimensions and analyse the conflicts, climate shocks and prices that threaten it.

⏱ 18 min · 8 questions

Lesson 20

Evaluate strategies for feeding a growing population sustainably, from cutting food waste to precision farming and new crop varieties.

⏱ 20 min · 8 questions

Lesson 21

Analyse how policies, leaders, campaigns, interest groups and preferences shape the choices Australians make at the ballot box.

⏱ 18 min · 8 questions

Lesson 22

Explore the media’s role as a democratic watchdog and learn to test political information for bias, reliability and misinformation.

⏱ 20 min · 8 questions

Lesson 23

Compare savings accounts, bonds, shares, property and crypto to understand why higher potential returns come with higher risk.

⏱ 18 min · 8 questions

Lesson 24

Learn how credit cards, loans and buy now pay later work, calculate the cost of borrowing, and plan strategies to manage debt.

⏱ 20 min · 8 questions

Lesson 25

Investigate the causes, course and evidence of frontier conflict between colonists and Aboriginal Peoples, and the sustained resistance First Nations peoples mounted to defend Country.

⏱ 20 min · 9 questions

Lesson 26

Examine how ‘protection’ laws gave governments sweeping control over Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples’ lives, wages, movement and families — and how people resisted.

⏱ 20 min · 9 questions

Lesson 27

Analyse why the new Commonwealth passed the Immigration Restriction Act 1901, how the dictation test worked, and how the policy shaped the nation until it was dismantled.

⏱ 19 min · 9 questions

Lesson 28

Evaluate early Commonwealth reforms such as women’s suffrage in 1902 and the Harvester judgement of 1907 — and who they left out.

⏱ 19 min · 9 questions

Lesson 29

Explore how Meiji Japan modernised rapidly while imperial powers carved up much of Asia in the late 1800s.

⏱ 20 min · 9 questions

Lesson 30

Explore how people are connected to places near and far through transport, technology, family and culture.

⏱ 17 min · 8 questions

Lesson 31

Trace how changes in transport and communication technology — from the telegraph to satellite internet — have changed people’s access to places.

⏱ 18 min · 9 questions

Lesson 32

Evaluate the economic, social and environmental effects of tourism on places, from the Great Barrier Reef to Uluru.

⏱ 19 min · 8 questions

Lesson 33

Map Australia’s state and federal court hierarchies and work out which court hears which kind of case.

⏱ 18 min · 8 questions

Lesson 34

Identify the roles of the judge, jury, prosecution and defence, and follow how a fair criminal trial is run in Australia’s adversarial system.

⏱ 18 min · 9 questions

Lesson 35

Analyse how businesses win and keep customers through price, quality, service and innovation — and why some advantages are harder to copy than others.

⏱ 17 min · 8 questions

Lesson 36

Measure productivity and explain how innovation and technology — from driverless trains to GPS-guided tractors — help businesses produce more from the same inputs.

⏱ 18 min · 9 questions

Lesson 37

Untangle the long-term tensions and the short-term crisis of 1914 that turned an assassination in Sarajevo into a world war.

⏱ 20 min · 9 questions

Lesson 38

Examine why the Allies attacked the Gallipoli peninsula in 1915, what happened during the eight-month campaign, and why it ended in withdrawal.

⏱ 20 min · 9 questions

Lesson 39

Explore how trench warfare created a deadly stalemate in France and Belgium, and trace the Australian experience from Fromelles in 1916 to the victories of 1918.

⏱ 20 min · 9 questions

Lesson 40

Investigate how the war divided and changed Australian society, from wartime government powers and the bitter conscription votes to the contributions of women.

⏱ 20 min · 9 questions

Lesson 41

Evaluate how Australians remember World War I — the rituals of Anzac Day, the debates about the Anzac legend, and the long-overlooked service of First Nations soldiers.

⏱ 20 min · 9 questions

Lesson 42

Follow a T-shirt and a smartphone across the world to see how global supply chains link the places where things are produced with the places where they are consumed.

⏱ 18 min · 9 questions

Lesson 43

Investigate how consumer choices in countries like Australia — from old phones to fast fashion — create environmental effects in places on the other side of the world.

⏱ 18 min · 9 questions

Lesson 44

Discover the physical network behind the internet, how digital technology links people and places, and who is still left out — globally and in Australia.

⏱ 18 min · 9 questions

Lesson 45

Learn how Australians influence government between elections — through petitions, submissions, lobbying and campaigns — and what makes some efforts succeed.

⏱ 18 min · 9 questions

Lesson 46

Weigh up how social media helps people organise, speak out and campaign — and the risks it brings for accuracy, safety and democracy.

⏱ 18 min · 9 questions

Lesson 47

Learn how economists measure the labour market, what is driving change in Australian work, and which skills will matter most in future jobs.

⏱ 19 min · 9 questions

Lesson 48

Go beyond the basics of pay and safety to explore types of employment, fair treatment at work and the ways workplace disputes are resolved.

⏱ 20 min · 9 questions