AC9HS3S07 Year 3 Humanities and Social Sciences

AC9HS3S07 – Year 3 Humanities and Social Sciences: Communicating

Strand

Skills

Substrand

Communicating

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

present descriptions and explanations, using ideas from sources and relevant subject-specific terms

Elaborations

• selecting ideas from sources such as graphs, tables, timelines, photographs and pictures
• using appropriate terms when speaking, writing and illustrating; for example, historical terms such as “immigration”, “exploration”, “development”, “settlement”, “naming days of commemoration” and “emblems”; geographical terms such as “climate”, “environment”, “natural” and “constructed”; and civics terms such as “community”, “decision-making” and “participation”

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.