AC9HH7S02 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.

locate and identify primary and secondary sources to use in historical inquiry

Elaborations

• 1 locating digital repositories of archaeological sources and records, and using search functions to identify evidence; for example, Rome ceramics – religion
• 2 identifying categories for sorting primary and secondary sources, such as scrolls, coins, artwork, human remains, primary perspectives and/or historical interpretations
• 3 selecting and recording information from a range of sources (both archaeological and written) and differentiating between primary sources (those from the time of the event/person/site being investigated) and secondary sources (those that represent later interpretations)
• 4 examining methods for investigating the ancient past for providing information relevant to inquiry questions; for example, stratigraphy to date discoveries, DNA testing to identify past individuals from their remains (such as Egyptian mummies) and common diseases
• 5 explaining the challenges of translation and intercultural understanding when interrogating sources of evidence, such as the inscriptions of Asoka and other edicts carved in stone and contained in religious literature, and the Vedas and epics of the Ramayana and Mahabharata

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