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AC9HE8S02: Year 8 Humanities and Social Sciences Content Descriptor – Questioning and researching
AC9HE8S02 Year 8 Humanities and Social Sciences

AC9HE8S02 – Year 8 Humanities and Social Sciences: Questioning and researching

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Skills
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Questioning and researching

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.

Content Descriptor

locate, select and organise information and data from a range of sources

Elaborations

  • • locating online sources; for example, exploring advanced search functions such as “allintitle: taxation in Australia” or “define: not-for-profit organisation”
  • • selecting relevant information and data from sources about websites of government departments or non-government organisations by asking questions such as “How will the data or information help answer the question?”
  • • organising data into appropriate formats using specialised digital tools; for example, constructing a diagram modelling the relationship between consumers, producers and workers in a market or a table showing the features of different ways businesses adapt to opportunities in the market

Achievement Standard This Supports

This Content Descriptor contributes to the following Achievement Standard:

Year 8 ASHASECOY8
Year 8 Humanities and Social Sciences Achievement Standard
By the end of Year 8, students explain how markets influence the allocation of resources to the production of goods and services. They explain ways that businesses adapt to opportunities in markets and respond to the work environment. They describe the importance of Australia’s taxation system and its effect on decision-making by individuals and businesses. Students explain why individuals and/or businesses budget and plan. Students develop a range of questions to investigate an economic and business issue. They locate, select and organise relevant information and data. They interpret information and data to identify economic and business issues and trends, and describe economic cause-and-effect relationships. They develop a response to an economic and business issue. They identify and evaluate potential costs and benefits. Students use economics and business knowledge, concepts, terms and research findings to create descriptions and explanations.