AC9HS3K03 Year 3 Humanities and Social Sciences

AC9HS3K03 – Year 3 Humanities and Social Sciences: Geography

Strand

Knowledge and understanding

Substrand

Geography

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.

Content Descriptor

the representation of contemporary Australia as states and territories, and as the Countries/Places of First Nations Australians prior to colonisation, and the locations of Australia’s neighbouring regions and countries

Elaborations

• using geographical tools to locate and name the states and territories in Australia, along with their capital cities; for example, a globe, wall map or digital source such as an online satellite image
• using a globe or digital source to locate the Pacific Island nations, New Zealand, Papua New Guinea, Timor-Leste, Indonesia and countries relevant to students, labelling them on a map and identifying the direction of each country from Australia
• using the Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies Map of Indigenous Australia and a states and territories map of Australia to compare the boundaries of Aboriginal Countries and Torres Strait Islander Places with the surveyed boundaries between Australian states and territories, to gain an appreciation of the different ways Australia can be represented

Achievement Standard This Supports

This Content Descriptor contributes to the following Achievement Standard:

Year 3 ASHASHASY3

Year 3 Humanities and Social Sciences Achievement Standard

By the end of Year 3, students describe the causes, effects and contributions of people to change. They identify the significance of events, symbols and emblems to Australia’s identity and diversity. They describe the representation of places within and near Australia. They identify the similarities, differences and connections of people to places across those scales. Students describe the importance of rules and people’s contributions to communities. Students develop questions and locate, collect and record information and data from different sources. They interpret information and data in different formats. They analyse information and data to identify perspectives and they draw conclusions. They propose actions or responses. Students use ideas from sources, and subject-specific terms to present descriptions and explanations.