AC9HS3S03 – Year 3 Humanities and Social Sciences: Interpreting, analysing and evaluating

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.

Elaborations

• 1 distinguishing between fiction and non-fiction texts in relation to representation of places, environments and past events
• 2 interpreting climate data to describe the temperature and rainfall for a place in Australia and a place in a neighbouring country
• 3 interpreting information about the number of parents that volunteer at the school and why they may choose to contribute in this way
• 4 interpreting data to identify patterns of change over time: for example, examine building dates to make inferences about changing designs and materials used
• 5 using maps, ground and aerial photographs, and a digital source such as online satellite images to identify, locate and describe features, including the interpretation of cartographic information such as titles, map symbols, north point and compass direction

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