AC9HS5S04 Year 5 Humanities and Social Sciences

Content descriptor evaluate primary and secondary sources to determine origin, purpose and perspectives

Elaborations

• • Elaboration identifying inferred messages, stereotypes and over-generalisations relating to age, gender, ethnicity, ability, religion and/or politics, and other beliefs or attitudes presented in sources and media of the past (for example, a newspaper caricature or photos of a colonial-era Chinese goldfield worker, businesspeople, First Nations Australians, South Sea Islander workers, women and children) and in sources and media of the present, such as social media opinions about a particular industry
• • Elaboration evaluating the accuracy and the perspectives in information gained from primary and secondary sources; for example, checking publication details for the author of speeches, advertisements, campaign materials, symbols and how-to-vote cards, or comparing sources of evidence to identify similarities and/or differences in accounts of the past that reflect different perspectives
• • Elaboration comparing sources of evidence to identify similarities and/or differences in accounts of and perspectives on the past; for example, comparing the differing experiences and feelings of miners, Chinese workers, women, children, leaders and First Nations Australian occupants during the Eureka Stockade; comparing colonial descriptions of Burke and Wills’ achievements with those that have been recently published giving First Nations Australian perspectives; comparing representations of Ned Kelly in past and present publications