AC9HH8S06 – Year 8 Humanities and Social Sciences: Historical perspectives and interpretations

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.

Elaborations

• 1 describing the values and attitudes revealed by a source such as an individual account, and using additional sources to show how they are broadly representative or contrast the values and attitudes of the society
• 2 identifying the perspective in a source and discussing the values and attitudes of the society that produced it; for example, explaining why historians have different interpretations, including access to source material, personal views and other contextual factors influencing the time in which the historian was working

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