AC9HS4S03 – Year 4 Humanities and Social Sciences: Interpreting, analysing and evaluating

This Content Descriptor from Year 4 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 decoding the meaning of symbols and emblems associated with Australian history, geography and civic life and applying an understanding of conventions, vocabulary and symbols when interpreting large-scale maps
• 2 interpreting the data presented in picture, line, bar or column graphs to identify trends; for example, explaining survey results about types of waste produced in the school or how people participate in the community
• 3 interpreting thematic maps and using online satellite images to describe the environmental characteristics of a continent or region, or to identify a particular characteristic, such as equatorial rainforests or clearance of natural vegetation for farming and settlement
• 4 comparing environments in places of similar climate and vegetation that are located on different continents; for example, sandy, icy and stony deserts of Australia, Africa and South America

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