AC9HS4S04 Year 4 Humanities and Social Sciences

Content descriptor analyse information and data, and identify perspectives

Elaborations

• • Elaboration comparing information in sources to identify evidence of change; for example, First Nations Australian, Dutch and French place names on Australia’s west coast
• • Elaboration 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
• • Elaboration 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
• • Elaboration 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