AC9HS5S02 Year 5 Humanities and Social Sciences

Content descriptor locate, collect and organise information and data from primary and secondary sources in a range of formats

Elaborations

• • Elaboration finding information in primary sources about the past (for example, maps, stories, songs, music, dance, diaries, official documents, artworks, artefacts, newspapers of the day, advertisements) and about geography (for example, fieldwork and photographs), and from secondary sources (for example, books, internet articles, maps, plans and reports in digital and non-digital form)
• • Elaboration using geospatial tools such as a globe, wall map or a digital application to collect information; for example, to identify the influences of people on the characteristics of places in other countries, or the location of information they have collected through fieldwork
• • Elaboration conducting surveys or interviews to gather primary data that support decision-making processes when investigating an issue, and summarising the key points or particular points of view; for example, surveying the views of conflicting parties in a planning or environmental dispute
• • Elaboration categorising information using digital and non-digital graphic organisers, such as flow charts, consequence wheels, futures timelines, Venn diagrams, decision-making matrixes and bibliography templates, for an appropriate purpose; for example, creating flow charts that show the steps in an electoral process such as a class vote or a local council election, or the sequence of steps to rehabilitate a natural area, or the sequence of actions in achieving a civic goal
• • Elaboration constructing timelines, maps, tables and graphs using appropriate digital applications and cartographic conventions, such as border, source, scale, legend, title and north point, to display data and information; for example, the movement of peoples over time in a colony, a sequence of key events, the population growth of an Australian colony, cultural and religious groups in Australia at different times, information on needs and wants