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AC9HH9S08: Year 9 Humanities and Social Sciences Content Descriptor – Communicating
AC9HH9S08 Year 9 Humanities and Social Sciences

AC9HH9S08 – Year 9 Humanities and Social Sciences: Communicating

Strand
Skills
Substrand
Communicating

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.

Content Descriptor

create descriptions, explanations and historical arguments, using historical knowledge, concepts and terms that incorporate and acknowledge evidence from sources

Elaborations

  • • developing a historical argument that identifies different possibilities in interpretation and argues a particular point of view with consistent reference to the evidence available
  • • selecting appropriate formats to communicate a historical argument and represent historical evidence; for example, an oral presentation, a script or a visual display
  • • developing an explanation, interpretation or argument using historical concepts and terms such as contested historical interpretations
  • • constructing a historical argument using selected evidence from sources to support an interpretation of the past; for example, to affect the audience or justify an argument about a commemoration, settler societies or the Industrial Revolution

Achievement Standard This Supports

This Content Descriptor contributes to the following Achievement Standard:

Year 9 ASHAHISY9
Year 9 Humanities and Social Sciences Achievement Standard
By the end of Year 9, students explain the historical significance of the period of the early modern world up to 1918. They explain the causes and effects of events, developments, turning points or movements globally, in Australia, and in relation to the First World War or in an Asian context. They describe the social, cultural, economic and/or political aspects related to the changes and continuities in a society or a historical period. Students explain the role of significant ideas, individuals, groups and institutions connected to the developments of this period and their influences on the historical events. Students develop and modify questions about the past to inform historical inquiry. They locate, select and compare primary and secondary sources, and use information in sources as evidence in historical inquiry. They explain the origin, content, context and purpose of primary and secondary sources. Students compare sources to determine the accuracy, usefulness and reliability of sources as evidence.  They explain causes and effects, and patterns of continuity and change connected to a period, event or movement. Students compare perspectives of significant events and developments, and explain the factors that influence these perspectives. They analyse different and contested historical interpretations. Students use historical knowledge, concepts and terms to develop descriptions, explanations and historical arguments that acknowledge evidence from sources.