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Year 1 Humanities and Social Sciences Achievement Standard – Australian Curriculum v9
Year 1 Humanities and Social Sciences ASHASHASY1

Year 1 Humanities and Social Sciences Achievement Standard – Australian Curriculum v9

This Achievement Standard describes what students are expected to know and do in Year 1 Humanities and Social Sciences by the end of the year. Teachers can use it to guide assessment design, collect evidence of learning, and ensure planning stays aligned with the Australian Curriculum v9.

What Students Should Know

By the end of Year 1, students identify continuity and change in family structures, roles and significant aspects of daily life. They identify the location and nature of the natural, managed and constructed features of local places, the ways places change, and how they can be cared for by people.

Students develop questions and collect, sort and record information and data from observations and provided sources. They interpret information and discuss perspectives. Students draw conclusions and make proposals. Students share narratives and observations about people, places and the past, drawing on sources and incorporating subject-specific terms.

Content Descriptors by Strand

This standard is supported by 10 Content Descriptors:

Knowledge and understanding

History

AC9HS1K01 differences in family structures and roles today, and how these have changed or remained the same over time AC9HS1K02 continuity and change between aspects of their daily lives and their parents’ and grandparents’ childhoods

Geography

AC9HS1K03 the natural, managed and constructed features of local places, and their location AC9HS1K04 how places change and how they can be cared for by different groups including First Nations Australians

Skills

Questioning and researching

AC9HS1S01 develop questions about objects, people, places and events in the past and present AC9HS1S02 collect, sort and record information and data from observations and from provided sources, including unscaled timelines and labelled maps or models

Interpreting, analysing and evaluating

AC9HS1S03 interpret information and data from observations and provided sources, including the comparison of objects from the past and present AC9HS1S04 discuss perspectives related to objects, people, places and events

Concluding and decision-making

AC9HS1S05 draw conclusions and make proposals

Communicating

AC9HS1S06 develop narratives and share observations, using sources, and subject-specific terms

At a Glance

Strand Substrand CDs Elaborations
Knowledge and understanding History 2 7
Knowledge and understanding Geography 2 10
Skills Questioning and researching 2 8
Skills Interpreting, analysing and evaluating 2 7
Skills Concluding and decision-making 1 2
Skills Communicating 1 2
Total 10 36

Frequently Asked Questions

What should students know by the end of Year 1 Humanities and Social Sciences?
By the end of Year 1, students identify continuity and change in family structures, roles and significant aspects of daily life. They identify the location and nature of the natural, managed and constructed features of local places, the ways places change, and how they can be cared for by people. Students develop questions and collect, sort and record information and data from observations and provided sources. They interpret information and discuss perspectives. Students draw conclusions and make proposals. Students share narratives and observations about people, places and the past, drawing on sources and incorporating subject-specific terms.
How many Content Descriptors support this standard?
10 Content Descriptors support this Achievement Standard (Knowledge and understanding: 2, Knowledge and understanding: 2, Skills: 2, Skills: 2, Skills: 1, Skills: 1).
How does this compare to Foundation?
The Foundation Humanities and Social Sciences standard (ASHASHASFY) covers the preceding year level. Standards build progressively, with Year 1 expectations extending what was introduced in Foundation.
Is this from the latest Australian Curriculum?
Yes, this Achievement Standard is from the Australian Curriculum version 9.0 (AC v9), the most current version published by ACARA.