AC9HH8S03
Year 8
Humanities and Social Sciences
AC9HH8S03 | Year 8 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 8 History. Use it to plan lessons and assessment with the Australian Curriculum v9.
Elaborations
- • Elaboration responding to questions such as “Who wrote/produced this?”, “When?”, “Why?” and “What does it show about the past?” about photographs, artefacts, stories, buildings and other sources to explain the past
- • Elaboration explaining how clues within a source can be used to identify where it was made or who it was made by; for example, the place where it was found, the materials used, the condition of the object, decorative features
- • Elaboration discussing the difficulty of identifying the origin and purpose of some sources, and how this can impact on the source’s usefulness
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