TeaCheese Achievement Standards Content Descriptors Blog About
Descriptors›Humanities and Social Sciences›Year 4›Skills›Interpreting, analysing and evaluating›AC9HS4S04
AC9HS4S04: Year 4 Humanities and Social Sciences Content Descriptor – Interpreting, analysing and evaluating
AC9HS4S04 Year 4 Humanities and Social Sciences

AC9HS4S04 – Year 4 Humanities and Social Sciences: Interpreting, analysing and evaluating

Strand
Skills
Substrand
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.

Content Descriptor

analyse information and data, and identify perspectives

Elaborations

  • • comparing information in sources to identify evidence of change; for example, First Nations Australian, Dutch and French place names on Australia’s west coast
  • • analysing information collected from interviews with different people about the same issue; for example, developers, businesspeople and their employees, council members, local Elders and conservationists, regarding the management of resources
  • • analysing information gathered through visible thinking strategies to examine a group of paintings and/or maps across a period of time to explore evidence of continuity and change, and significant events in Australia pre- and post-1788 (for example, images of First Nations Australian rock painting depicting early interactions and trade with the Macassans) and comparing it with written information from a historian
  • • exploring different perspectives about a historical event (for example, the perspectives of convicts, soldiers, free settlers and First Nations Australians on the arrival of the First Fleet) or a contemporary issue, such as a school issue or an environmental issue

Achievement Standard This Supports

This Content Descriptor contributes to the following Achievement Standard:

Year 4 ASHASHASY4
Year 4 Humanities and Social Sciences Achievement Standard
By the end of Year 4, students describe the diversity of experiences of people in Australia prior to and following 1788. They describe the events and causes of the establishment of the first British colony in Australia. They describe the effects of colonisation on people and environments. Students describe the importance of environments, and sustainable allocation and management of resources. They describe the importance and role of local government, community members and laws, and the cultural and social factors that shape identity.Students develop questions and locate, collect and record information and data from a range of sources and formats. They interpret and analyse information and data to identify perspectives, and draw conclusions. Students propose considered actions or responses. Students use ideas from sources and relevant subject-specific terms to present descriptions and explanations.