AC9HS3S02 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.

locate, collect and record information and data from a range of sources, including annotated timelines and maps

Elaborations

• 1 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
• 2 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
• 3 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
• 4 sequencing information about local people and events in annotated timelines to show change
• 5 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
• 6 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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