AC9HS4S07 Year 4 Humanities and Social Sciences

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.

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

Elaborations

• 1 describing the relative location of different features in a place by distance and compass direction; for example, the distance from their home to the local waste management site, the route of a navigator
• 2 using accurate and subject-appropriate terms when speaking, writing and illustrating; for example, using historical terms such as “exploration”, “navigation”, “trade”, “penal”, “transportation”, “contact” and “colonisation”; using geographical terms such as “continents”, “countries”, “natural resources”, “vegetation”, “environments”, “ecosystems”, “sustainability”, “consumption”, “waste” and “management”; and using civic terms such as “local government”, “decision-making”, “services”, “roles”, “responsibilities”, “rules”, “laws” and “belonging”

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