AC9HH7S03
Year 7
Humanities and Social Sciences
AC9HH7S03 | Year 7 History: Using historical sources
Content Descriptor
Content descriptor identify the origin, content, context and purpose of primary and secondary sources
Strand
Skills
Substrand
Using historical sources
This content descriptor sets out learning for Year 7 History. Use it to plan lessons and assessment with the Australian Curriculum v9.
Elaborations
- • Elaboration developing and applying questions such as “Who wrote/produced this?”, “When?”, “Why?” and “What does it show about the past?” to photographs, artefacts, stories, buildings and other sources to explain context and purpose
- • Elaboration identifying and explaining the origin, content, features and purposes of different sources in understanding the impact and legacy of a key individual such as Leonidas (King of Sparta), Pericles or Alexander the Great
- • Elaboration explaining the difficulties in identifying the origin and purpose of some sources, such as the Kimberley Bradshaw paintings
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