AC9HH7S04 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 and describe the accuracy and usefulness of primary and secondary sources as evidence

Elaborations

• 1 examining the accuracy of sources by asking questions such as “Where does it come from?”, “What information is provided?”, “Is the information factual or an opinion?” and “What other sources may be needed to support/challenge this source?”
• 2 recognising that, while evidence may be limited for a particular group of people, such evidence can provide useful insights into the power structures in an ancient society
• 3 distinguishing between a fact (for example, “Some gladiators wore helmets”) and an opinion (for example, “All gladiators were brave”)
• 4 identifying information within a source that can be useful evidence to support an interpretation of an event, movement, individual, group or society

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