AC9HH9S06 Year 9 Humanities and Social Sciences

This Content Descriptor from Year 9 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.

compare perspectives in sources and explain how these are influenced by significant events, ideas, locations, beliefs and values

Elaborations

• 1 determining whether or not the information in one historical source can be verified by information in another historical source
• 2 comparing and contrasting the range of perspectives at the time surrounding a historical event, and consider voices that may be absent from the sources such as those of women, men, children, ethnic groups, Indigenous peoples and minority groups
• 3 discussing whether the perspective of one individual in the period is representative of a majority or minority view at that time

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