AC9HE8S02 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 and data from a range of sources

Elaborations

• 1 locating online sources; for example, exploring advanced search functions such as “allintitle: taxation in Australia” or “define: not-for-profit organisation”
• 2 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?”
• 3 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

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