AC9HH8S04 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 and describe the accuracy and usefulness of primary and secondary sources as evidence

Elaborations

• 1 examining the validity 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 distinguishing between fact (for example, “The moai were constructed on Easter Island [Rapa Nui]”) and opinion or interpretation (for example, “The moai on Easter Island [Rapa Nui] are representations of gods”)
• 3 using strategies to detect whether a statement is fact or opinion, including word choices that may indicate an opinion is being offered; for example, the use of conditionals “might” and “could”, and words such as “believe”, “think” and “suggests”

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