AC9HH8S03 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.

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

Elaborations

• 1 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
• 2 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
• 3 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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