AC9HS3K01 Year 3 Humanities and Social Sciences

This Content Descriptor from Year 3 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.

causes and effects of changes to the local community, and how people who may be from diverse backgrounds have contributed to these changes

Elaborations

• 1 exploring photographs, newspapers, oral histories, diaries and letters to investigate how an aspect of life in the local community, such as transport, entertainment, the natural and built environment, and technologies, has changed over time; for example, from the time of European settlement to the present day
• 2 comparing photographs from the past and present of a specific location to identify the change or continuity (similarities and differences over time) associated with people, events or developments, places or ecosystems
• 3 identifying individuals and groups of diverse backgrounds from the past, who have contributed to the community’s economic, social, cultural, civic and environmental development and character
• 4 investigating reasons for change in the local community, why change was brought about and what happened because of it; for example, the change in use of a building, wasteland turning to wetland

Related Achievement Standards