Cambridge Lower Secondary Humanities (0839) (2025)

People

Past

Places

Community

Identity

Money and trade

Rights and responsibilities

Skills toolbox: People

Arts and sciences

Belief and culture

Conflict and resolution

Economy and communications

Migrations and empires

Society and daily life

Skills toolbox: Past

Economic development

Environment

Living places

Physical features and processes

Population and health

Sustainability

Transport and travel

Weather and climate

Skills toolbox: Places

Analyse different variations of communities.

Analyse how power and control are allocated in local, national or international communities and how effectively these communities operate on behalf of their members.

Present a rationale for an imagined alternative power structure in a community.

Compare the rules that apply to communities in their country with those in another country.

Analyse different approaches to what happens when rules are broken internationally.

Analyse the characteristics of worldviews.

Identify and challenge commonly held beliefs and expectations in their personal worldviews.

Analyse the impact of differences in personal worldviews.

Analyse the impact of social media, community, family and peers on their worldviews.

Analyse how personal and others' worldviews evolve over time.

Analyse the people and organisations that hold financial power in the world.

Identify the causes of poverty in their local community, country and the world.

Evaluate local, national and global solutions to poverty.

Analyse the goods produced or services provided in their country and describe one or more that are internationally traded.

Explain how governments raise and spend money.

Compare approaches to assisting those with not enough money to meet their needs.

Identify their own ideas of fundamental human rights, beginning with their personal perspectives, and compare these with the rights outlined in the United Nations' Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR).

Evaluate the articles of the United Nations' Universal Declaration of Human Rights on a local, national and global level.

Evaluate the law making process, laws and law enforcement in their country and globally.

Identify the impact of their own and others' viewpoints, especially during discussions or when handling data.

Identify the impact of worldviews on social structures and relationships.

Implement ethical approaches to data collection, including confidentiality and data protection, by applying best practices and guidelines in real-world scenarios.

From a past context, analyse one or more of the following:

From a past context, analyse the social or cultural impact of scientific discoveries.

From a past context, describe and compare the impact of medical discoveries or breakthroughs.

From a past context, analyse the influence of a belief system on a society.

From a past context, analyse how cultural ideas changed over time and their impact on a society.

From a past context, analyse how communication methods affected the transmission and impact of stories.

From a past context, analyse one or more of the following:

From a past context, analyse one or both of the following:

From a past context, analyse the extent to which multi-national organisations have prevented conflict between nations.

From a past context, explain the significance of moving from a nomadic to a farm-based economy.

From a past context, explain the impact of a trade route on the regions it connected.

From a past context, analyse the significance of the printing press on a society.

From a past context, analyse the impact of the internet on a major world event.

From a past context, describe an industrial revolution.

From a past context, explain the impact of migration on a region or society.

From past contexts, compare the rise, expansion and end of two empires.

From a past context, analyse the impact of a conquest on the conquering and conquered peoples.

From a past context, analyse the extent to which colonial exploitation changed a colonised society.

From a past context, analyse the relationship between social hierarchy tensions and social change.

Analyse the concept of childhood during the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.

From past contexts, compare two systems of government.

Analyse the impact of the feminist movement on a region of the world in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.

From a past context, analyse the extent to which a civil rights or other social movement achieved social change.

From a past context, analyse the impact of the institution of slavery through one or more of the following:

Use a variety of sources to construct a historical argument and recognise the issues involved with the sources used.

Develop a historical question that provides the basis for a sound historical enquiry.

Analyse the relative strengths of different interpretations of the past.

Develop a secure and broad chronological understanding of key historical periods and events.

Explain how knowledge of the past is used to understand the present and think about implications for the future.

Explain why employment structures vary between countries.

Explain how global patterns of employment have changed over the last 100 years.

Evaluate ways in which economic development can be sustainable.

Evaluate biodiversity in their local area and in a contrasting biome.

Explain the interrelationships between plants and animals in two contrasting ecosystems.

Explain how changes in the human environment can affect the natural environment on a global scale.

Evaluate the benefits and challenges of living in a particular settlement.

Use maps to describe and explain variations in population density across their country.

Describe key characteristics of global population growth and distribution.

Use maps to describe how the landscape varies across a continent other than their own.

Use a range of global and national reference points to describe location and distribution of physical and human features at a range of scales.

Explain how the processes of erosion, transportation and deposition operate across two different physical environments.

Explain how the structure of the Earth and the movement of tectonic plates causes tectonic hazards.

Describe and explain why the global population has changed over time.

Explain why people migrate and the effects this has on individuals and countries.

Evaluate the impact of a global disease and how it can be reduced.

Analyse the challenges involved in protecting the environment with reference to the needs of different stakeholder groups.

Analyse some of the challenges around providing reliable and sustainable power.

Explain how climate change has different effects and solutions in different places.

Explain how sustainable development applies to the environment, economy and people in a country.

Analyse the challenges of planning a national transport system.

Explain how national and international transport choices link to climate change.

Suggest how to develop sustainable transport solutions for the future.

Use maps to explain how and why weather and climate varies across their continent.

Describe two types of weather hazard and explain how they affect people.

Describe how two different types of rainfall happen.

Draw and interpret a climate graph for a named location.

Interpret a range of photographs and topographical and thematic maps to gain information about places.

Select and use a range of techniques to collect, analyse and present fieldwork data.

the interrelationship between architectural styles and wider social and cultural movements.

how art was used to support or challenge those in power

how fashion was used to support or challenge different social groups

a revolution or uprising.

a religious conflict within a religion

an external power’s contribution to a civil war

the impact of 'total war' on a society

the impact of technological innovation on warfare.

economically

socially

politically

culturally

psychologically