AC9HG8S03 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.

interpret and analyse geographical data and information to identify similarities and differences, explain patterns and trends and infer relationships

Elaborations

• 1 identifying similarities and differences from data and information; for example, comparing source and destination of international migration for Australia in 2 different time periods
• 2 explaining patterns and trends; for example, comparing compound graphs or census data for different time periods to identify patterns in urban concentration in Australia and the United States of America, or trends in international migration
• 3 inferring relationships from data and information collected during primary research; for example, using observations, field sketches, field measurements, questionnaires or interviews to explain the distribution of population in your local area and suggesting possible causes, effects and trends

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