AC9HS3S02 Year 3 Humanities and Social Sciences

AC9HS3S02 – 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

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

Elaborations

• 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
• 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
• 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
• sequencing information about local people and events in annotated timelines to show change
• 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
• creating tables or picture and column graphs to show patterns in data collected from class vote on participation in community activities

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.