AC9HC8S02 Year 8 Humanities and Social Sciences

This Content Descriptor from Year 8 Humanities and Social Sciences provides the specific knowledge and skills students should learn. Use it to plan lessons, create learning sequences, and design assessments that align with the Australian Curriculum v9.

locate, select and organise information, data and ideas from different sources

Elaborations

• 1 locating information from a range of print and online sources (for example, online journal articles, news reports or social media posts) using advanced search functions or targeted criteria about a citizenship issue, such as the nature of the Australian citizenship test
• 2 selecting information from a range of sources by applying understandings of accuracy and reliability to the selection of information
• 3 organising the ideas in different sources, such as opinion pieces, information from political parties, government reports and reports from independent organisations, by identifying bias, language choices and selective use of information

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