AC9HE9S02 – Year 9 Humanities and Social Sciences: Questioning and researching

This Content Descriptor from Year 9 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.

Elaborations

• • locating online sources using contextually specific terms (for example, “global markets”) or criteria (for example, find “case studies related to trade between Australia and Asia”)
• • selecting and analysing information and data for relevance by asking questions such as “How will the data or information help answer this economic or business question?” or “How will the data or information inform a response to an economic or business issue?”
• • selecting and analysing information and data for reliability by asking questions such as “How and when was it collected?”, “Who collected the data?” and “For what purpose was the data collected?”
• • selecting and presenting data in appropriate formats using specialised digital tools and processes; for example, a table and graph showing the composition and direction of trade between Australia and Asia

Achievement Standard This Supports

This Content Descriptor contributes to the following Achievement Standard: