AC9HS5S07 Year 5 Humanities and Social Sciences

AC9HS5S07 – Year 5 Humanities and Social Sciences: Communicating

Strand

Skills

Substrand

Communicating

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.

Content Descriptor

present descriptions and explanations, drawing ideas, findings and viewpoints from sources, and using relevant terms and conventions

Elaborations

• selecting and referencing ideas and viewpoints from letters, graphs, tables, timelines, photographs and pictures, in descriptions and explanations
• using accurate and subject-appropriate terms; for example, historical terms such as “colonial”, “the gold era”, “migration” and “penal”; geographic terms such as “characteristics”, “environmental”, “human”, “ecosystems”, “sustainable”, “settlement” and “management”; civics terms such as “electoral process”, “democracy”, “shared beliefs”; and economic terms such as “scarcity”, “choices”, “resources”, and “needs and wants”

Achievement Standard This Supports

This Content Descriptor contributes to the following Achievement Standard:

Year 5 ASHASHASY5

Year 5 Humanities and Social Sciences Achievement Standard

By the end of Year 5, students explain the causes for the establishment of the British colonies in Australia after 1800. They explain the roles of significant individuals or groups in the development of an Australian colony and the impact of those developments. They explain the influence of people on the characteristics of places and in the management of spaces. Students explain the key values and features of Australia’s democracy and how people achieve civic goals. They explain the nature of resources, and how they meet needs and wants. Students develop questions and locate, collect and organise information and data from primary and secondary sources. They evaluate sources to determine origin and perspectives. Students evaluate information and data to identify and describe patterns or trends. They suggest conclusions based on evidence. Students consider criteria in proposing actions or responses. Students select ideas and findings from sources and use relevant terms and conventions, to present descriptions and explanations.