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AC9HS3S01: Year 3 Humanities and Social Sciences Content Descriptor – Questioning and researching
AC9HS3S01 Year 3 Humanities and Social Sciences

AC9HS3S01 – Year 3 Humanities and Social Sciences: Questioning and researching

Strand
Skills
Substrand
Questioning and researching

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

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

Elaborations

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

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.