AC9HG7S02 Year 7 Humanities and Social Sciences

This Content Descriptor from Year 7 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.

collect, organise and represent data and information from primary research methods, including fieldwork and secondary research materials, using geospatial technologies and digital tools as appropriate

Elaborations

• 1 identifying appropriate primary research methods, including fieldwork, and using specialised digital tools to collect original materials; for example, interview and survey data, photographs of streetscapes, annotated field sketches, diagrams and statistics related to liveability
• 2 collecting relevant secondary research materials, such as print and online publications, photographs and images, using advanced search functions; for example, “allintitle: community opinion on water scarcity in Australia” or “Australia’s most liveable city”
• 3 representing relevant data and information in appropriate formats to combine ideas; for example, applying primary research to the design of a questionnaire or survey on what is meant by liveability, with results presented in a table or graph
• 4 representing spatial distribution of different types of geographical phenomena by constructing appropriate maps at different scales that conform to cartographic conventions, for example using computer mapping to show the spatial distribution of impacts of hydrological hazards on environments

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