AC9HH7S03 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.

identify the origin, content, context and purpose of primary and secondary sources

Elaborations

• 1 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
• 2 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
• 3 explaining the difficulties in identifying the origin and purpose of some sources, such as the Kimberley Bradshaw paintings

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