AC9HH10S04
Year 10
Humanities and Social Sciences
AC9HH10S04 | Year 10 History: Using historical sources
Content Descriptor
Content descriptor explain the usefulness of primary and secondary sources, and the reliability of the information as evidence
Strand
Skills
Substrand
Using historical sources
This content descriptor sets out learning for Year 10 History. Use it to plan lessons and assessment with the Australian Curriculum v9.
Elaborations
- • Elaboration identifying perspectives absent from sources and the extent to which this may affect usefulness
- • Elaboration explaining the bias of the author and the intent of a source, and the extent to which this may affect reliability
- • Elaboration determining the usefulness of sources by corroborating with other sources of information
- • Elaboration examining that the reliability and usefulness of a source depends on the questions asked of it; for example, an account having a particular historical perspective and therefore being of use in revealing past prevailing attitudes
- • Elaboration determining whether or not the information in one historical source can be verified by information in another historical source
- • Elaboration comparing a range of historical sources and identifying similarities, differences and inconsistencies in interpretations
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