AC9HS1S03 Year 1 Humanities and Social Sciences

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

Elaborations

• • Elaboration 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
• • Elaboration 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
• • Elaboration 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”
• • Elaboration exploring traditional and contemporary First Nations Australian stories about places and the past, and how places have changed
• • Elaboration 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)