AC9HS1S03 Year 1 Humanities and Social Sciences

This Content Descriptor from Year 1 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.

interpret information and data from observations and provided sources, including the comparison of objects from the past and present

Elaborations

• 1 using information gained from sources, such as stories, photographs, fieldwork observations, satellite images and rock art, to answer “when”, “where”, “what”, “how” and “why” questions
• 2 identifying similarities and differences between activities over time by comparing objects of the past with those currently used; for example, comparing toys, games, clothes, phones, cooking utensils, tools, homework books
• 3 using comparative language when describing family life over time and/or comparing features of places, such as “smaller/bigger than”, “closer/further”, “not as big as”, “younger/older than”, “more rainy days”, “fewer/less”, “hotter/colder”, “sunnier/windier than”
• 4 exploring traditional and contemporary First Nations Australian stories about places and the past, and how places have changed
• 5 categorising objects, drawings or images by their features and explaining the reason for their categorisation; for example, categorising the features of a local place into natural (such as a native forest), constructed (such as a street of houses) and managed (such as a windbreak of trees)

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