Year+7+History+Scope+and+Sequence+Part+3

**(As Previous)** || **Key Inquiry Questions** **(As Previous)** || **Historical Knowledge and Understanding** **(continued)** || **Historical Skills** **(As Previous)** || **Achievement Standard** **(As Previous)** ||
 * **Description**
 * ||  || ======__** Investigating the ancient past **__======

Students build on and consolidate their understanding of historical inquiry from previous years in depth, using a range of sources for the study of the ancient past.

Investigating the ancient past. How historians and archaeologists investigate history, including excavation and archival research

The range of sources that can be used in an historical investigation, including archaeological and written sources

The methods and sources used to investigate at least ONE historical controversy or mystery that has challenged historians or archaeologists, such as in the analysis of unidentified human remains The nature of the sources forn[|ancient] Australia and what they reveal about Australia’s past in the [|ancient] period, such as the use of resources

The importance of conserving the remains of the past, using examples from the [|ancient] world

__2 The Mediterranean world__
Students investigate ONE of these Mediterranean societies in depth:


 * Egypt or Greece or Rome**

__ **Investigate:** __

· **Physical features** · **Roles of key groups** · **Significant beliefs and Practices** incuding in depth study on ONE of the following: 1. Everyday Life 2. Warfare 3. Death and Funerary Customs · **Contacts and** **conflicts** within and/or with other societies and the spread of Philosophies and beliefs · **The role of a** **Significant person**

__**The Asian world**__
__**Students investigate ONE of these Asian societies in depth**__: **__Investigate:__** · **Physical features** · **Roles of key groups** · **Significant beliefs and Practices** incuding in depth study on ONE of the following: 1. Everyday Life 2. Warfare 3. Death and Funerary Customs · **Contacts and conflicts** within and/or with other societies and the spread of Philosophies and beliefs · **The role of a significant individual** ||  ||   ||
 * China or India**