AC9HH10S04 Year 10 Humanities and Social Sciences

This Content Descriptor from Year 10 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.

explain the usefulness of primary and secondary sources, and the reliability of the information as evidence

Elaborations

• 1 identifying perspectives absent from sources and the extent to which this may affect usefulness
• 2 explaining the bias of the author and the intent of a source, and the extent to which this may affect reliability
• 3 determining the usefulness of sources by corroborating with other sources of information
• 4 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
• 5 determining whether or not the information in one historical source can be verified by information in another historical source
• 6 comparing a range of historical sources and identifying similarities, differences and inconsistencies in interpretations

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