AC9HH8S02 Year 8 Humanities and Social Sciences

This Content Descriptor from Year 8 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 organising sources into categories such as primary and secondary sources and/or written, visual, material culture, and artefacts; for example, sources from the period investigated including journals, church records, paintings, artefacts, and sites and sources written after the period including fictional and artistic interpretations, and academic texts
• 2 retrieving relevant information from multiple digital sources, including repositories of primary sources, maps and photographs of culturally significant artefacts such as online platforms, and using advanced search functions to refine the search

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