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AC9HS3S02 Year 3 Humanities and Social Sciences

AC9HS3S02 | Year 3 Humanities and Social Sciences: Questioning and researching

Content Descriptor

Content descriptor locate, collect and record information and data from a range of sources, including annotated timelines and maps
Strand
Skills
Substrand
Questioning and researching

This content descriptor sets out learning for Year 3 Humanities and Social Sciences. Use it to plan lessons and assessment with the Australian Curriculum v9.

Elaborations

  • • Elaboration locating sources suited to learning about the past, such as photographs, interviews, newspapers, digital media, stories, cemetery observations, interviews with older people, and maps, including those online
  • • Elaboration collecting information in the field; for example, taking photographs, making sketches or collecting natural objects, or interviewing or surveying people to seek information about feelings, preferences, perspectives and actions
  • • Elaboration gathering information from maps, aerial photographs, satellite images or digital application objects, to support the investigation of the natural, managed and constructed features of places
  • • Elaboration sequencing information about local people and events in annotated timelines to show change
  • • Elaboration acquiring geographical information from schools in geographically contrasting parts of Australia and neighbouring countries and recording that information by constructing and annotating maps, using the appropriate cartographic conventions, including map symbols, title and north point
  • • Elaboration creating tables or picture and column graphs to show patterns in data collected from class vote on participation in community activities

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