AC9HS3S01 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.

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

Elaborations

• 1 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
• 2 asking probing questions during an investigation (for example, “Why is that so?”, “What else do we need to know?”)
• 3 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?”

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