AC9HH9S08 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.

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

Elaborations

• 1 developing a historical argument that identifies different possibilities in interpretation and argues a particular point of view with consistent reference to the evidence available
• 2 selecting appropriate formats to communicate a historical argument and represent historical evidence; for example, an oral presentation, a script or a visual display
• 3 developing an explanation, interpretation or argument using historical concepts and terms such as contested historical interpretations
• 4 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

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