AC9HS3K03 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.

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

• 1 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
• 2 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
• 3 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

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