AC9HS5S01 – Year 5 Humanities and Social Sciences: Questioning and researching

This Content Descriptor from Year 5 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

• • asking questions that address relevant disciplinary concepts before, during and after an investigation to frame and guide the stages of an inquiry; for example, “What caused Britain to establish Australian colonies after 1800?”, “What does this source indicate about the significance of an event?”, “How do secondary sources differ and what can I determine from primary sources?”, “How do the sources help me answer my questions and reach conclusions?”
• • developing different types of questions for different purposes, such as probing questions to seek details, open-ended questions to elicit more ideas, and practical questions to guide financial choices
• • developing questions to guide the identification and location of useful sources for an investigation or project; for example, “Is this source useful?”, “Who can help us do this project?”, “What rules/protocols must we follow when we do this inquiry/project?”, “What resources do we need to conduct this project?”

Achievement Standard This Supports

This Content Descriptor contributes to the following Achievement Standard: