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AC9HH8S02 Year 8 Humanities and Social Sciences

AC9HH8S02 | Year 8 History: Questioning and researching

Content Descriptor

Content descriptor locate and identify primary and secondary sources to use in historical inquiry
Strand
Skills
Substrand
Questioning and researching

This content descriptor sets out learning for Year 8 History. Use it to plan lessons and assessment with the Australian Curriculum v9.

Elaborations

  • • Elaboration 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
  • • Elaboration 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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