AC9HS5S05 – Year 5 Humanities and Social Sciences: Concluding and decision-making

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

• 1 identifying valid evidence that can be used to form a conclusion and considering the difference between a conclusion based on evidence and one based on personal preference or on the use of limited sources
• 2 drawing conclusions based on identified evidence from primary and secondary sources that consider differing information; for example, using analysis and evaluation of primary sources such as images, posters and newspaper articles, and secondary sources such as books and websites, on which to base conclusions
• 3 drawing conclusions that demonstrate consideration of questions, understanding of disciplinary concepts and evidence
• 4 drawing conclusions about a community and/or the environment; for example, changing democratic values from past to present, patterns of human consumption and changes in environments
• 5 considering the primary and secondary sources used and how this may have influenced the validity of the conclusions of the inquiry; for example, the reliability of information in a source such as a government agency website versus a private blog, the date a secondary source was created and the views that prevailed at the time

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