Oxford Humanities and Social Sciences 7–10 Western Australian Curriculum

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Smarter Teaching Starts Here.

From ready-to-go lesson plans to real-time assessment tools, save teachers time and support meaningful learning outcomes.

Oxford Humanities and Social Sciences (HASS) 7–10 delivers a comprehensive, curriculum-aligned approach to all Humanities subjects, ensuring every student has access to engaging, research-backed learning resources.

Designed in collaboration with educators and subject matter experts, the series offers complete coverage of the 2025 Western Australian Curriculum, with new and updated content that reflects best-practice teaching. A scaffolded approach builds student confidence, supporting the development of key Humanities skills in context.

This new edition features a brand new digital teaching and learning experience! Designed with teachers from around Australia, our next-generation digital platform ushers in a new era of interactive teaching and personalised learning.

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Why choose Oxford?

Our new series has been developed for the Western Australian curriculum, is hosted on our all new digital platform, and features over 900 content videos to support students at every level.

Keep your class on track with complete coverage of the Western Australian Curriculum

The series is fully aligned with the 2025 Western Australian Curriculum. Covering all individual HASS subjects in each year level while maintaining subject separation, it offers teachers the flexibility to tailor lessons while ensuring comprehensive, curriculum-aligned content.

A new digital experience on the refreshed Oxford Digital

Hosted on our intuitive and accessible new Oxford Digital platform, the series is designed to support interactive teaching and personalised learning. Each series comes packed with supportive resources such as expertly-crafted lesson plans and embedded quizzes.

Engaging, Curriculum-Aligned Content That Brings Learning to Life

Enhance learning with high-quality, curriculum-aligned videos for class, online, or flipped learning. Bespoke content reinforces key concepts, while regularly updated licensed videos connect students to real-world events, keeping learning engaging and relevant.

Information about our previous edition

Oxford Big Ideas Humanities and Social Sciences

Oxford Big Ideas Humanities and Social Sciences provides complete coverage for the Humanities – Geography, History, Economics and Business and Civics and Citizenship – in one easy-to-use package.* Take a semester-based approach or deliver separate year-long courses.

All Oxford Big Ideas Humanities and Social Sciences series are supported by award-winning digital resources for Secondary School students and teachers on obook assess, Oxford’s premium digital learning platform.

*Please note: Australian Curriculum Economics and Business and Civics and Citizenship are covered in a separate resource.

What do teachers say about Oxford Big Ideas?

"The Big Ideas format has improved students engagement with content and improved learning outcomes. An invaluable resource for supporting students with content and engaging activities."

– Samantha Welker, Head of Humanities, Geelong Lutheran College (VIC) on Oxford Big Ideas Humanities 7–10

"The textbook covers all the disciplines in one book, Civics, History, Economics & Geography. The digital teacher and student resources are excellent and widely used."

– Frances Cometti, Melton Secondary College (VIC), on Oxford Big Ideas Humanities 7–10

"A comprehensive text that has allowed for the study of the complete suite of the WA HASS syllabus."

– Head of Humanities & Social Sciences, Fremantle College (WA), on Big Ideas Humanities and Social Sciences WA 7–10

"It has ensured consistency in information across all classes, yet still allows teachers to tailor lessons as they see fit."

– Head of Humanities and Social Sciences, Belridge Secondary College (WA) on Big Ideas Humanities and Social Sciences WA 7–10

Bring the curriculum to life with thousands of curriculum-aligned videos

Oxford University Press Australia is delighted to announce a unique partnership with ClickView – Australia's leading video solution for schools – to deliver thousands of brand-new, curriculum-aligned videos for secondary schools across Australia.
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Engaging resources for students of all abilities

Focus on inquiry and engagement

Each chapter is structured around key inquiry questions from the curriculum, supporting students and teachers as they adopt an inquiry-based approach to the key learning areas in the Humanities.

Engaging source materials and supporting activities throughout simplify difficult concepts and engage reluctant learners.

Master concepts,
build skills

Stand-alone reference ‘toolkits’ provide complete coverage of all concepts and skills, which are also integrated throughout the text so that students can see them in context.

Experience
award-winning
digital support

obook provides a fully interactive digital version of the Student book with note-taking, highlighting and dictionary support included.

Every obook contains links to additional resources, such as videos, interactive modules and worksheets.