AC9HS2S01 Year 2 Humanities and Social Sciences

This Content Descriptor from Year 2 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.

develop questions about objects, people, places and events in the past and present

Elaborations

• 1 developing inquiry questions about a historical site; for example, “What does it look like now?”, “What condition is it in?”, “What was its purpose?”, “How might its use have changed?”, “How was it built/created?”, “Who built it?”, “How is it now used?”, “Why is it important?”, “Was/is it used by different groups of people?’
• 2 developing inquiry questions about places; for example, “What are the features of the place?”, “How far away is it?”, “How easy is it to get to?”, “How am I connected to it?”, “How is it connected to other places?”
• 3 posing questions using the stems, “How do I feel about …?”, ‘What would it be like to …?” and “What effect …?”

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