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AC9HH9S03 Year 9 Humanities and Social Sciences

AC9HH9S03 | Year 9 History: Using historical sources

Content Descriptor

Content descriptor identify the origin and content of sources, and explain the purpose and context of primary and secondary sources
Strand
Skills
Substrand
Using historical sources

This content descriptor sets out learning for Year 9 History. Use it to plan lessons and assessment with the Australian Curriculum v9.

Elaborations

  • • Elaboration identifying the context of a source, such as when and where it was produced, and whether it was at the same time as the event being studied or after the event
  • • Elaboration identifying literal and symbolic features of sources and explaining their purpose and inferences
  • • Elaboration explaining the events, ideas and individuals represented in a visual source
  • • Elaboration analysing the intent of the author and purpose of the source

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