AC9HS3S01 Year 3 Humanities and Social Sciences

Content descriptor develop questions to guide investigations about people, events, places and issues

Elaborations

• • Elaboration developing inquiring questions as they investigate; for example, “Why there?” questions about location; “What might happen?” questions about future consequences of natural processes or people’s actions in places; and “What ought to happen?” questions or other questions about ethical behaviour, sustainability and preferred futures
• • Elaboration asking probing questions during an investigation (for example, “Why is that so?”, “What else do we need to know?”)
• • Elaboration posing questions to compare such as “How have things changed?” and “How is my house the same or different to one in a neighbouring country?”